The portion of chatbots’ answers to election-related questions that contained at least one factual inaccuracy, according to a forthcoming report from the startup Forum AI. For instance, “when Forum’s researchers asked one widely used model when they needed to request a mail-in ballot to vote in the midterms in Pennsylvania, the chatbot said November 3. The actual deadline is a week earlier.” (The Atlantic / Will Oremus)

“Funders almost never do what real venturers must: look closely at why they came up short when they have, trying to learn and to fare better next time…

So I was especially pleased, earlier this month, to learn of a set of studies released by the Center for News, Technology & Innovation that included one of the most successful nonprofit newsrooms, the Salt Lake Tribune, and perhaps our field’s biggest recent disaster, Houston Landing.”

Staffers don’t love it: “People need to be able to trust the polling and results we’re reporting are real numbers and not betting odds.”

“Bonnie Kristian, Christianity Today’s deputy editor until last week, described its new leaders as being driven ‘by fear, by the kind of anxiety about reputational and financial loss that makes bold, interesting, principled journalism very difficult.'”

Employees who have left Christianity Today in recent months fear those in charge are “abandoning the publication’s longtime commitment to independent journalism, a record that includes investigating accounts of misconduct by high-profile evangelicals.”

Meta’s advertising revenue in Europe is decelerating. “Though Meta did not explicitly blame the introduction of the Less-Personalized Ads model [in earnings] on Wednesday, chief financial officer Susan Li had previously warned ‘we’re seeing the impact of less personalized ads offering in Europe now that it’s fully rolled out.'”

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Kelly McBride, who has served as the network’s public editor since 2020, will leave the role at the end of the year, she announced in her column Thursday. She said that NPR CEO Katherine Maher decided to move the partnership to [the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at UMD’s College Park campus].”

Otherwise, “he could be subject to sanctions, including the possible dismissal” of the lawsuit.

“Pangram isn’t able to tell users the truth about someone’s writing, but it is able to introduce something much more complicated: doubt…once an accusation is made, there’s no consensus about what evidence would be sufficient to clear an author’s name.”

—Anika Collier Navaroli, director of Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security at Columbia Journalism School. She notes that since she began "modeling my argument for radical AI disclosure from journalists, I have found myself intentionally not using AI tools anymore because it is embarrassing to know that I will have to publicly cop to it." (Columbia Journalism Review / Anika Collier Navaroli)

“The White House this week launched new broadsides against the news media, blocking [reporter Andrew Feinberg] from serving in the pool covering the president and sending a letter threatening Politico over its coverage of White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.”

“He remained optimistic about his chosen profession, he told Times readers in 2009, because ‘people who make money by knowing what’s going on will pay money to get accurate information.'”

“There will also be no health editor title at the BBC when the current incumbent, Hugh Pym, leaves in the spring.”