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Editor’s Note: Generative AI – A Doomsday Device or a Dangerous Gimmick?

I can’t help but roll my eyes at some recent takes on the impact of ChatGPT. There’s a deluge of content being created on the subject, with so many outlets and commentators rushing to cover the subject. Yes, I’m also guilty of visiting this trough more than once. I’ve returned to the subject as the […]

Editor’s Note: Grabbing Audience’s Attention in the Age of TikTok

I talked last week about the dangers of investing heavily in social media platforms with a high signal-to-noise ratio. Yet despite my caution, it’s hard to argue against the numbers showing audiences in general switching over to social media networks for their news and entertainment, with younger generations in particular heading to TikTok in their […]

Editor’s Note: The Signal-to-Noise Ratio on Social Media

I’m going to admit something apparently controversial for a member of the media: I’ve never really liked Twitter. Hardly the most courageous time to be making such a statement, I know, but better late than never I guess. I’ll avoid the whole “Twitter was better before Musk” debate, because frankly I wasn’t a fan in […]

Editor’s Note: Positioning for Growth in the Times of Economic Uncertainty

It’s been something of an odd week, as concerns about the dour economic outlook encouraged further job cuts in the publishing industry. Vox Media — which publishes Vox, The Verge and the New York Magazine, among others — announced on Friday that it had laid off 7% of its workforce. Vox joins a growing list […]

Editor’s Note: AI in Digital Publishing

After spending the last few weeks playing with ChatGPT and reading various hot takes on the technology’s “transformative” nature, I thought I’d risk throwing my hat into the ring. The large language model (LLM) has seemingly alarmed and delighted observers in equal measures. On the alarmist side of the spectrum, we’ve seen reports ranging from […]

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