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DAVID BAUDER

DAVID BAUDER

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Digital outlets The Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet sue OpenAI for unauthorized use of journalism

News industry lawsuits are piling up for OpenAI, the company behind artificial intelligence-fueled chatbot ChatGPT

Digital outlets The Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet sue OpenAI for unauthorized use of journalism
MidEast|News|World

Journalism leaders express support for media covering the Israel-Hamas war, ask for more protection

Three dozen leaders at news organizations around the world are expressing solidarity with reporters doing the dangerous work of covering the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza

Journalism leaders express support for media covering the Israel-Hamas war, ask for more protection
Entertainment|Opinion|Technology

They are TV's ghosts — networks that somehow survive with little reason to watch them anymore

Cable television is filled with ghosts

They are TV's ghosts — networks that somehow survive with little reason to watch them anymore
Business|News|Technology|US

Gannett news chain says it will stop using AP content for first time in a century

The media company Gannett, publishers of USA Today and more than 200 newspapers across the U.S., says it will stop using stories, video and images from The Associated Press later this month

Gannett news chain says it will stop using AP content for first time in a century
Business|Celebrity|Entertainment|News|Opinion|Political|US

NBC's Chuck Todd lays into his network for hiring former RNC chief Ronna McDaniel as an analyst

Former ‘Meet the Press’ moderator Chuck Todd says that some NBC News journalists are uncomfortable that the network had hired former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor

NBC's Chuck Todd lays into his network for hiring former RNC chief Ronna McDaniel as an analyst
Business|News|US

NBC says it will cut ties with former RNC head Ronna McDaniel after days of employee objections

NBC News will cut ties with former Republican National Committee chief Ronna McDaniel, hired last week as an on-air political contributor

NBC says it will cut ties with former RNC head Ronna McDaniel after days of employee objections
Celebrity|Entertainment|News

The British royal family learns that if you don't fill an information vacuum, someone else will

The British royal family learned the hard way: in the modern media world, if you don't fill an information vacuum, others will fill it for you, and it's not likely to be pretty

The British royal family learns that if you don't fill an information vacuum, someone else will
News|Opinion|US

Network political contributors have a long history. But are they more trouble than they're worth?

NBC News' messy hiring and firing of former Republican National Committee head Ronna McDaniel puts a spotlight on television's practice of paying on-air political contributors

Network political contributors have a long history. But are they more trouble than they're worth?
Celebrity|Entertainment

Sex, drugs and the Ramones: CNN's Camerota ties up 'loose ends' from high school

A recent trip to the clothing store that replaced New York's legendary punk club CBGB's was a step back in time for CNN's Alisyn Camerota

Sex, drugs and the Ramones: CNN's Camerota ties up 'loose ends' from high school
Business|News|Opinion

Outside roles by NBC's Conde, others reveal a journalism ethics issue: being paid to sit on boards

Most news organizations hold its journalists to strict ethical standards to avoid conflicts of interest either real or perceived

Outside roles by NBC's Conde, others reveal a journalism ethics issue: being paid to sit on boards
Election|News|Opinion|Political|US

News organizations urge Biden and Trump to commit to presidential debates during the 2024 campaign

Twelve news organizations have issued a joint statement calling on presumptive presidential nominees Joe Biden and Donald Trump to agree to debates during the White House campaign

News organizations urge Biden and Trump to commit to presidential debates during the 2024 campaign
News|World

Trump trial: Why can't Americans see or hear what is going on inside the courtroom?

It's a moment in history

Trump trial: Why can't Americans see or hear what is going on inside the courtroom?
Business|Entertainment|Lifestyle|News|Opinion|US

An NPR editor who wrote a critical essay on company has resigned after being suspended

A National Public Radio editor who wrote a critical essay saying that his company had become intolerant of all but liberal views has resigned

An NPR editor who wrote a critical essay on company has resigned after being suspended
Arts|Celebrity|Entertainment

Musician T Bone Burnett is trading his dystopian sensibilities for some warm-hearted acoustic music

T Bone Burnett is best known for production work like the `O Brother, Where Art Thou?'

Musician T Bone Burnett is trading his dystopian sensibilities for some warm-hearted acoustic music
Crime|News|Political|US

Judge in Trump case orders media not to report where potential jurors work

The judge in Donald Trump's hush money trial has ordered the media not to report where potential jurors have worked

Judge in Trump case orders media not to report where potential jurors work
Crime|Entertainment|News|US

Live video of man who set himself on fire outside court proves challenging for news organizations

A man who set himself on fire outside the Manhattan courtroom where Donald Trump was on trial tested news organizations on how quickly they could respond to an incident and what to show viewers

Live video of man who set himself on fire outside court proves challenging for news organizations
Crime|News|Political|US

Without cameras to go live, the Trump trial is proving the potency of live blogs as news tools

With cameras not allowed at former President Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York, live news blogs are coming into their own as an important news tool

Without cameras to go live, the Trump trial is proving the potency of live blogs as news tools
Business|Technology

8 years after the National Enquirer's deal with Donald Trump, the iconic tabloid is limping badly

Catch and kill

8 years after the National Enquirer's deal with Donald Trump, the iconic tabloid is limping badly
News|Opinion

Journalists critical of their own companies cause headaches for news organizations

Journalists see themselves as truth-tellers, and sometimes as contrarians

Journalists critical of their own companies cause headaches for news organizations
News|US

Once dominant at CBS News before a bitter departure, Dan Rather makes his first return in 18 years

Dan Rather was synonymous with CBS News before the veteran anchorman left in bitterness in 2006, following a discredited report on then-President George W

Once dominant at CBS News before a bitter departure, Dan Rather makes his first return in 18 years
Election|News|Opinion

News organizations have trust issues as they gear up to cover another election, a poll finds

Americans have a message for news organizations as they prepare to cover the 2024 election: About half of Americans say they're concerned that outlets will report inaccuracies or misinformation

News organizations have trust issues as they gear up to cover another election, a poll finds
Education|News|Opinion

Student journalists are covering their own campuses in convulsion. Here's what they have to say

Student journalists at campuses across the country are getting a pressure-filled, and dangerous, lesson in their chosen profession during a chaotic springtime of protests

Student journalists are covering their own campuses in convulsion. Here's what they have to say
Business|Celebrity|Entertainment|News

Kim Godwin out as ABC News president after 3 years as first Black woman as network news chief

Kim Godwin is out as ABC News president after three years as the first Black woman to lead a television network news division

Kim Godwin out as ABC News president after 3 years as first Black woman as network news chief
News|US

Pulitzer Prizes in journalism awarded to The New York Times, The Washington Post, AP and others

The New York Times and The Washington Post were awarded three Pulitzer Prizes apiece for work in 2023 that dealt with everything from the war in Gaza to gun violence, and The Associated Press won in the feature photography category for coverage of global migration to the U.S. The prestigious Pulitzer for public service was awarded Monday to ProPublica for reporting on the Supreme Court that revealed how billionaires wooed justices with gifts and travel

Pulitzer Prizes in journalism awarded to The New York Times, The Washington Post, AP and others
Business|Celebrity|Entertainment

Who's laughing? LateNighter, a digital news site about late-night TV, hopes to buck media trends

The media industry is crumbling, and late-night comedy on television has less than half of the audience than it had a decade ago

Who's laughing? LateNighter, a digital news site about late-night TV, hopes to buck media trends

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