Should something change about the way news is gathered, reported and shared? Participants in a task force at the DealBook Summit considered that, and more.
Category: Newspapers
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U.K. Opens Inquiry Into Jeff Zucker’s Emirati-Backed Bid for The Telegraph
British regulators announced a review into whether the bid, backed mostly by funds from the United Arab Emirates, could result in adverse foreign influence over the British press.
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Jeff Zucker Nears Major Deal to Re-enter the News Business
The veteran TV executive is poised to take control of two prominent British news outlets, The Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, and may expand them into America.
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Joe Sharkey, Travel Writer Who Survived Midair Collision, Dies at 77
He offered advice to business travelers in hundreds of columns in The Times. His eyewitness account of a disaster was front-page news.
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Taylor Swift Reporter Faces Criticism Online
Bryan West landed a much-coveted job. Then came the internet.
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Philip Meyer, Reporter Who Pioneered Data-Driven Journalism, Dies at 93
First as a correspondent and later as a professor, he pushed his industry to adopt more rigorous, quantitative methods.
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Whitney Wolfe Herd Is Stepping Down as Bumble’s C.E.O. After a Decade
Ms. Wolfe Herd, who founded the women-centered dating app in 2014, will be replaced by Lidiane Jones, the chief executive of Slack.
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Will Lewis Said to Be Next C.E.O. of Washington Post
The former Dow Jones executive most recently co-founded The News Movement, a start-up aimed at young audiences.
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Microsoft Criticized for Embedding ‘Crass’ A.I. Poll Beside News Article
A poll generated by artificial intelligence, embedded next to a Guardian article on Microsoft’s news aggregator platform, asked readers to speculate on the cause of a woman’s death.
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David Mitchell, Weekly Editor Who Exposed a Corrupt Cult, Dies at 79
His tiny California newspaper won a Pulitzer Prize for its exposé of Synanon, a renowned drug rehabilitation program that had turned into a violent operation.
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Did A.I. Write Product Reviews? Gannett Says No.
Writers and editors at Reviewed, a product recommendation website, say that the company used artificial intelligence to create reviews last week.
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The Washington Post to Cut 240 Jobs
The publication has struggled to grow subscriptions in recent years.