Ideas that challenge / comfort / inspire
Stephen Goforth
Do what makes you happiest.
Look upon what gives you joy.
Speak to those who warm your heart.
Listen to that which lifts your spirit.
Surround yourself with sights and sounds and people who give you pleasure.
For all the happiness you give to others all year long, give yourself a perfect day.
And then tomorrow, repeat the process.
Mohan Singh
Reinforcement Learning - This type of AI learning sits somewhere in between supervised and unsupervised learning. Rather than being given specific goals, the AI is deployed into an environment where it is allowed to train with minimal feedback. This trial-and-error approach involves adjusting weights until high reward outcomes are reached. Desirable behaviors are rewarded, and undesirable behaviors are punished. It is similar to a person learning how to work through levels of a video game, searching for an effective strategy. Reinforcement learning is indeed used in video game development and has been used to help robots adopt to new environments.
More AI definitions here.
When we are ready to make a new beginning, we will shortly find an opportunity. The same event could be a real new beginning in one situation and an interesting but unproductive by-way in another. The difference is whether the event is “keyed” or “coded” to that transition point, the way that electronic key cards are set to open a particular hotel room door. When the card code matches, the door opens and the whole thing happens as if it were scripted. When it doesn’t match, the event is just an event and you are still in the neutral zone. The neutral zone simply hasn’t finished with you yet.
What isn’t finished is the inner realignment and renewal of energy, both of which depend on your being immersed in the chaos of the neutral zone. It is as though the thing that you call “my life” had to return occasionally to a state of pure energy before it could take anew shape and gain new momentum.
William Bridges, Transitions
Is AI the end of search? One CDO says no but look for search to be decentralized. “If I want to know the closest pizza shop, that’s what Google is for, but if I want to understand allergen info for the shop, I need to ask the shop itself” using the shop’s AI. - VentureBeat
Toys “R” Us has released a video ad, one of the first from a major brand that was created almost entirely by generative artificial intelligence. Sora completed 80% to 85% of the work before the agency went in to make slight corrections to the imagery. - Wall Street Journal
A Japanese mega-conglomerate says it's using AI to build what one of its designers called a "mental shield" that manipulates angry customers' voices so that call center employees don't have to deal with drama. Softbank insists it won't change customers' words, but instead will do things like make a shrill, angry voice lower, to become less grating, or else, raise the pitch. - ArsTechnica
We put five of the leading bots through a series of blind tests to determine their usefulness. ChatGPT, didn’t lead the pack. Instead, lesser-known Perplexity was our champ. - Wall Street Journal
There were more images created through AI last year than there were created through lens-based technologies. - Hollywood Reporter
Humane releases widely anticipated Ai Pin—a wearable badge that doubles as an AI-powered smart device. The voice-based, always-connected Ai Pin is the first of what will almost certainly be a long line of products riding the generative AI boon. - Tech Crunch
An innovative voice-cloning technology is making it possible to hear Chief Justice Earl Warren “read” the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision on school desegregation as he did on May 17, 1954, along with oral arguments by lawyers including a future Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall. - Associated Press
A new study “recruited management consultants from Boston Consulting Group.” One of the tasks was to brainstorm about a new type of shoe, sketch a persuasive business plan for making it and write about it persuasively. Some researchers had believed only humans could perform such creative tasks. They were wrong. The consultants who used ChatGPT produced work that independent evaluators rated about 40 percent better on average. In fact, people who simply cut and pasted ChatGPT’s output were rated more highly than colleagues who blended its work with their own thoughts. And the A.I.-assisted consultants were more than 20 percent faster. - The New York Times
AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once. - Eureka Alert
A pair of studies looked at how much a person's expectations about AI impacted their likelihood to trust it and take its advice. A strong placebo effect works to shape what people think of a particular AI tool. - Axios
AI can figure out where a photo was taken. This "may help people ID the locations of old snapshots or allow biologists to conduct rapid surveys for invasive plant species—but similar tech could be used for gov. surveillance, corp. tracking or even stalking.” - NPR
A start-up called Perplexity shows what’s possible for a search engine built from scratch with artificial intelligence. Perplexity doesn’t give you back a list of links. Instead, it scours the web for you and uses AI to write a summary of what it finds. One impressive Perplexity feature is ‘Copilot,’ which helps a user narrow down a query by asking clarifying questions. Perplexity also allows users to search within a specific set of sources, such as academic papers, YouTube videos or Reddit posts. - New York Times
A follower is what he admires, or at least strives to be it. An admirer holds himself aloof, does not or will not discover that what he admires contains a demand upon him: the demand to be what he admires or at least to strive to become it.
Søren Kierkegaard
What: By understanding design best practices, you can create more effective Canva graphics—and stay on-brand. Learn the four key design principles (layout, color, typography, imagery) as well as sources for high-quality graphics. Basic Canva knowledge is helpful but not required.
Who: Lidia Varesco Racoma of Lidia Varesco Design
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Nonprofit Learning Lab
What: How can elections coverage prioritize informing voters of the climate stakes and hold leaders accountable for their climate positions?
Who: Neela Banerjee Chief Climate Editor for NPR; Chase Cain, National Climate Correspondent at NBC News; Lisa Friedman, Climate Change Reporter at The New York Times; and Adam Mahoney, Climate & Environment Reporter for Capital B News. Kyle Pope, Covering Climate Now's Executive Director for Strategic Initiatives, will moderate.
When: Panel - 12 pm, Eastern, Roundtable - 12:50 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Covering Climate Now
What: Learn how incorporating audio content can unlock improved engagement and revenue opportunities for your publisher site.
Who: Travis Albritton, Head of Marketing, Amaze Media Labs
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Local Media Association
What: Hear lessons learned from reporters in three climate-critical countries — India, Mexico, and the UK — on how their press handled recent national elections. And explore how reporters around the world can cover the importance of the US election for humanity's climate outlook.
Who: Iván Carillo, a Freelance Journalist & Documentarian from Mexico; Natalie Hanman, Head of Environment for The Guardian in the UK; and Ritwika Mitra, a Freelance Journalist in India. Elena Gonzalez, Covering Climate Now's Local Television Engagement Manager, will moderate.
When: Global panel: 9 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Covering Climate Now
What: Learn about advanced techniques like fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and using custom GPTs to create a personalized and powerful AI assistant. Additionally, you’ll gain insights into choosing the right model for your needs. OpenAI offers different versions of ChatGPT, including GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, each with varying capabilities and performance characteristics.
Who: Zachary Piotti, Coordinator & Digital Marketing Consultant at Widener Small Business Development Center.
When: 12 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Pennsylvania Business One-Stop Shop
What: State and local officials have important roles to play in championing or stymying climate action, and billions of dollars are flowing into communities across the country, due to recent federal climate legislation. How do we best cover the climate story locally, and what can we learn from colleagues who are doing it well?
Who: Aman Azhar, Maryland Reporter at Inside Climate News; Brian New, Investigative Reporter for CBS News Texas; and Joan Meiners, Climate News & Storytelling Reporter at The Arizona Republic. An additional panelist is to be announced. Alex Harris, Climate Change Reporter at the Miami Herald, will moderate.
When: Panel - 12 pm, Eastern, Roundtable - 12:50 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Covering Climate Now
What: Find out how a regional city magazine fine tuned their branded content program with content that is generating a significant audience, designed packages that have increased value and revenue and implemented distribution strategies that are outperforming clients’ expectations.
Who: Kelly Travis, Director of Marketing & Revenue Operations, SLM Media Group and David Arkin, CEO of David Arkin Consulting.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Local Media Association
What: How Cal State LA's three voter guides were produced by the university's community news class for the Eastside and South Los Angeles communities. If you are putting one together, learn best practices – and what mistakes to avoid.
Who: Julie Liss, Associate Professor, Television, Film and Media Studies, California State University-Los Angeles.
When: 4 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: College Media Association
What: Perspectives on life after college journalism. How did student journalism prepare them for their internships and their first jobs? What worked and what didn't work when applying for jobs? How to deal with rejections during a job hunt? How do early-career journalists cope with the state of the industry? What do professionals wish journalism school had taught them? What are things they noticed about the news industry after transitioning from a student to a full-time employee?
Who: Jaden Edison, K-12 Education Reporter at The Texas Tribune; Sara Martin, Former Three-Year Editor-in-Chief at The Metropolitan; Caryl Anne Francia: Editorial Intern at Pensions & Investments; Hannah Mirsky (Moderator), News Producer at Spectrum News North Carolina.
When: 5 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Nutgraf, an award-nominated weekly newsletter about student journalism.
What: Discover practical applications of AI-driven creative production technologies. You’ll find out: How immersive production is reshaping how brands connect with their audiences How cutting-edge AI tools are revolutionizing the creative process in games and marketing Examples of how this new technology can boost creativity and drive engagement.
Who: Drew Weigel, 3D & Immersive, Shutterstock Studios; Justin Webber, Exec. Prod. Shutterstock Studios.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Ad Week
What: We’ll walk through a checklist that covers every step for freelancers of creating a business plan, to researching and setting rates, to addressing federal and state business regulations and requirements.
Who: Freelance writer Jen A. Miller, who runs the Notes from a Hired Pen newsletter; Diane Sears, author and Founder and President of DiVerse Media.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $10 or free for ASBPE members
Sponsor: The American Society of Business Publication Editors
What: Learn how to find public meetings near you and learn how to best make your voice heard. Learn how much notice is meant to be given for the meetings, when they can be closed and what to do about it if you think open meeting laws are being broken.
Who: First Amendment Attorney Ed Carter
When: 12 noon
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: The Utah Investigative Journalism Project
What: In this session, our panelists go beyond the fear of robots taking over the world and explore what AI is and the ways it can be used responsibly in the newsroom.
Who: Bobby Allyn, technology correspondent, NPR; Nick Toso, CEO, Rolli; Moderator: Araceli Gómez-Aldana, WBEZ
When: 12:30, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Public Media Journalists Association
What: In this roundtable discussion, we'll explore the importance of high school sports coverage, the challenges that arise and the future of high school sports journalism.
Who: Newsday's Gregg Sarra; North Shore News Group's Anthony Lifrieri;The Express News Group's Cailin Riley; Jamie Stuart will moderate the discussion.
When: 7 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Press Club of Long Island
The following strategies can help you maintain a healthy balance between your expertise and AI assistance:
Generate rough drafts from notes, rather than from a blank page: It’s fine to generate drafts with AI, but do your thinking first, put together some structured notes, and treat AI-generated content as a first draft that requires critical review and substantial editing. This approach can help mitigate the risk of anchoring bias.
Rotate between AI-assisted and non-assisted writing: To develop and maintain your own writing skills, interweave AI tools into your writing workflow, rather than relying on them for chunks of text. This will also help you maintain your own voice.
Customize AI prompts: Learn to craft specific prompts that guide the AI to produce more relevant and useful outputs for your particular needs.
Ethical considerations: Be transparent about AI use, especially in academic writing, and follow any guidelines or policies set by your institution or publication venues.
Fact-check and verify: Always verify facts, citations and specific claims made by AI. These tools have a tendency to generate “hallucinations,” plausible-sounding but inaccurate chunks of information.
From The Transmitter
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. -Agatha Christie, born Sept. 15, 1890
When someone attempts to make you take responsible for their feelings, they are committing what psychologists call emotional blackmail. A parent uses this when telling a child, "You've hurt me so much," or when a spouse says, "You hurt my feelings.
It is placing responsibility for their emotional outcome on you—pretending you have control over something that you do not. The parent may choose to become angry or sulk or become bitter or irritable toward the child. Someone may claim your action justifies their emotion. But that person is still doing the choosing of their own emotions.
When you see a family tiptoe around the house because "we don't want to upset mother (or father)," then you have a family who has decided to make everyone responsible for a single person's feelings—taking on a burden they were never meant to carry. Each family member is responsible for his or her actions. It’s the wrong goal to aim at preventing someone from ever being upset.
Elizabeth Kenny once said, “Anyone who angers you conquers you.” To allow someone else to decide how you feel is abdicating your responsibility to define yourself. Don't allow someone else to sell you on the idea that you are responsible for what they feel. Don't blackmail those around you by threatening to unleash an emotional outburst for something you yourself created.
Stephen Goforth
Ted Chiang Is Wrong About AI Art It’s real. But it isn’t revolutionary. – The Atlantic
Why A.I. Isn’t Going to Make Art – The New Yorker
Create Better AI Images With These Expert Prompt Writing Tips – CNET
So long, point-and-click: How generative AI will redefine the user interface - ZDnet
Video game actors go on strike over AI protections – Semafor
Colin Kaepernick lost control of his story. Now he wants to help creators own theirs – Tech Crunch
The music industry is coming for AI – NPR
The AI artist who used Bad Bunny’s voice — and shot to fame – Rest of World
How to Write a Book with AI in 2024 – GeekyGadgets
AI can’t make music — but that doesn’t mean it poses an empty threat to musicians - The Atlantic
OpenAI rolls out voice mode after delaying it for safety reasons – Washington Post
India’s star audio content company is going all in on AI. Will listeners tune in? - Rest of World
New study on AI-assisted creativity reveals an interesting social dilemma – PsyPost
FBI busts musician’s elaborate AI-powered $10M streaming-royalty heist – ArsTechnica
AI Is Coming for Amateur Novelists. That’s Fine – The Atlantic
Four rules of life: Show up, Pay attention, Tell the truth, Don't be attached to the results. -Angeles Arrien
Cults do not destroy families as much as stuck-togetherness attitudes in families create candidates for cults. When parents focus on societal influence it actually serves to increase their anxiety even though it helps them avoid personal responsibility. On the other hand, parents who accept the fact that their children are less likely to be influenced by other systems to the extent that they are comfortable in their own, while they might find the idea more painful at first, are given an a means of approaching the problem that is quite within their power, and it can, in turn, contribute to their own self-respect.
Edwin Friedman, Generation to Generation
Here are the AI essentials that our experts are using, promoting and nervous about – Poynter
Historic Newspaper Uses Janky AI Newscasters Instead of Human Journalists - 404 Media
How I’m Trying to Use Generative AI as a Journalism Engineer — Ethically – The Markup
David Caswell: “All journalists should be trained to use generative AI” – Hello Future
AI companies have a news problem. Journalists have the skills they need to fix it. – Columbia Journalism Review
‘Being on camera is no longer sensible’: persecuted Venezuelan journalists turn to AI – The Guardian
How The New York Times' Granular Gen AI Tool Drives Campaign Performance – Ad Week
Meet NAT, the AI-generated presenter offering soft news to Mexican audiences – Reuters
After getting caught fabricating quotes using AI, Cody reporter resigns – Wyoming News
India’s star audio content company is going all in on AI. Will listeners tune in? – Rest of World
Two 80-something journalists tried ChatGPT. Then, they sued to protect the ‘written word’ – Associated Press
Reality Check Commentary: No News Is Bad News: Some AI Models Are Trained to Avoid News – New Guardian
CNN slashes 100 jobs as it announces major AI-focused overhaul – Raw Story
The Washington Post debuts AI chatbot – Axios
The assignment: Build AI tools for journalists – and make ethics job one – Poynter
Why video journalism is not ready to ditch its editors because of AI – Journalism.co
Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results – Wired
Global audiences suspicious of AI-powered newsrooms, report finds - Reuters
How AI helped a local newsroom in Argentina boost its reach, innovation and sustainability - International Journalist's Network
Fact-checkers urge collaboration, caution in using artificial intelligence tools – Poynter
How Donors Can Support Responsible AI Use in Journalism – Journalism Funders Forum
OK computer? Understanding public attitudes towards the uses of generative AI in news - Reuters
Breaking down ESPN’s decision to use AI to write some game stories – Poynter
Our standards for using AI at The Dallas Morning News – Dallas News
California announces new deal with tech to fund journalism, AI research – Associated Press
Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen
Generative AI is currently very good at replicating parts of software programs that have been written many times before. But what if you want to create something new? This is where smart human coders will still be needed. - BusinessInsider
I think the rise of AI is going to result more in-person sales. If everyone can do it, people will not listen or read any emails or anything like that they just stop because it’s all generated. It means every email they got is amazing. They won’t believe any of it unless somebody looks them in the eye and says, ‘I’m a real person and here’s why this is true.’ - Ronan Perceval CEO of Phorest
Given that we don’t know what the lay of the land is going to be in five, ten years there are two crucial things for publishers to focus on: what do we do that’s irreplaceable? What do we do that a machine can’t do? - Wall Street Journal editor Emma Tucker
Studies this year of ChatGPT in legal analysis and white-collar writing chores have found that the bot helps lower-performing people more than it does the most skilled. On a task that required reasoning based on evidence, however, ChatGPT was not helpful at all. Here, ChatGPT lulled employees into trusting it too much. Unaided humans had the correct answer 85 percent of the time. People who used ChatGPT without training scored just over 70 percent. Those who had been trained did even worse, getting the answer only 60 percent of the time. In interviews conducted after the experiment, “people told us they neglected to check because it’s so polished, it looks so right.’ - David Berreby writing in the New York Times
Like an episode out of Black Mirror, the machines have arrived to teach us how to be human even as they strip us of our humanity. Artificial intelligence could significantly diminish humanity, even if machines never ascend to superintelligence, by sapping the ability of human beings to do human things. “We’re seeing a general trend of selling AI as ‘empowering,’ a way to extend your ability to do something, whether that’s writing, making investments, or dating,” AI expert Leif Weatherby explained. “But what really happens is that we become so reliant on algorithmic decisions that we lose oversight over our own thought processes and even social relationships.” What makes many applications of artificial intelligence so disturbing is that they don’t expand our mind’s capacity to think, but outsource it. - Tyler Austin Harper writing in The Atlantic
As machines like A.I. eliminate routine tasks what gets left behind are the human skills we deem soft. - Jane Thier writing in Fortune
While AI is very powerful at human level or even superhuman level for many tasks, there are many other things where humans continue to have a big advantage, and that's going to continue to be true for quite some time. - Kate Whiting writing in WeForum
“Prompting AI systems is no different than being an effective communicator with other humans. The same principles apply in both cases. This makes me bullish on reading, writing, and speaking as the 3 underlying skills that really matter in 2024.” - An Open AI employee Tweet
Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you. -Herbert Gesser
From bench to bot: Does AI really make you a more efficient writer? - The Transmitter: Neuroscience News and Perspectives
Did an AI write up your arrest? Hard to know – Politico
AI Editing: Are We There Yet? - Science Editor
How do I cite generative AI in MLA style? - Modern Language Association
I tested 7 AI content detectors - they're getting dramatically better at identifying plagiarism – Zdnet
OpenAI says it’s taking a ‘deliberate approach’ to releasing tools that can detect writing from ChatGPT - Tech Crunch
AI is complicating plagiarism. How should scientists respond? – Nature
The telltale words that could identify generative AI text - Arstechnica
Research shows that AI-generated slop overuses specific words – Futurism
AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human – BBC
AI and the Death of Student Writing – Chronicle of Higher Ed
How AI Reshapes Vocabulary: Unveiling the Most Used Terms Related to the Technology – Every Pixel
How to tell if something is written by ChatGPT – Read Write
Coursera Launches AI Plagiarism Detector – Inside Higher Ed
I Tested Three AI Essay-writing Tools, and Here’s What I Found – Life Hacker
New study on AI-assisted creativity reveals an interesting social dilemma – Psypost
How to cite ChatGPT in APA Style – American Psychological Association
Is ChatGPT a Reliable Ghostwriter? - The Journal of Nuclear Medicine
AI Is Coming for Amateur Novelists. That’s Fine. - The Atlantic
National Novel Writing Month faces backlash over allowing AI: What to know – Washington Post
How Do You Change a Chatbot’s Mind?, I discovered a new world of A.I. manipulation. – New York Times
If journalism is going up in smoke, I might as well get high off the fumes: confessions of a chatbot helper – The Guardian
College Writing Centers Worry AI Could Replace Them – EdSurge
No laughing matter - how AI is helping comedians write jokes – BBC
What Teachers Told Me About A.I. in School - New York Times
What: Learn the basic fundamentals of photography, how to take professional looking photos whether you are using a smart phone or camera, and some tips on how to market your services and products through high-quality photographs.
Who: Tyler Benninger, Video Production/Content Specialist, Duquesne University Small Business Development Center
When: 10 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: $45
Sponsor: The Pennsylvania Business One-Stop Shop
What: A series of virtual conversations and live Q&As unpacking the policy impacts of the 2024 election. We'll dive into the profound stakes and impacts of a Trump or Harris victory, exploring how such outcomes could shape the United States' most critical sectors.
When: 2:30 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Axios
What: Discover how businesses are preparing to invest in gen AI for their marketing projects and other advanced applications to get ahead. You’ll find out: The current level of understanding and everyday use of gen AI in marketing, and how adoption is expected to evolve, insights into how other marketers plan to invest in gen AI, and the primary concerns from your peers, and how organizations are navigating the current and upcoming regulatory requirements
Who: Jonathan Moran, Head of Martech Solutions Marketing; Lisa Loftis, in the webinar Lisa Loftis Principal Product Marketing Manager, SAS.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: AdWeek
What: An AI-powered Data Journalism Interface iTromsø, a small Norwegian newsroom that is part of the Polaris Media group, has developed an AI-powered data journalism interface called "Djinn" to enhance its newsgathering and notifications process. The tool is designed to assist journalists in finding, analyzing and summarizing news stories efficiently.
Who: Lars Adrian Giske is the Head of AI at the local Norwegian newspaper iTromsø; Rune Ytreberg has worked with data-driven journalism for 30 years, first at the investigative newsroom in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) and then at the daily business newspaper Dagens Næringsliv.
When: 11 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Online News Association
What: We will dive into how leveraging a CDP can transform your subscription strategy. Discover how testing and learning with CDP insights can lead to better outcomes, whether it’s enhancing subscriber acquisition, boosting retention rates, or gaining efficiencies for decision making.
Who: Kyle Whitfield of The Advocate
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Local Media Association
What: You’ll learn: How responsible generative AI is impacting government. What barriers those organizations faced in adopting AI. Who was involved in implementing the technology.
Who: Ryan R. Eddy, Director, Homeland Security Programs, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Kevin Johnstun, Management and Program Analyst, Office of Educational Technology; Kevin Walsh, Director, Information Technology and Cybersecurity team, GAO.
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: GovLoop
What: How to identify transferable skills; Looking for new paths/roles - understanding your values; Tips for navigating a changing path - within journalism or other complementary roles.
Who: Journalist turned life coach, Rosie Nixon
When: 8 am, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Women in Journalism
What: When journalists publish something they accept to be true — such as the results of an election — what happens when that statement feels like unsettled opinion to some of your audience? How can you as a journalist back up the facts you’re sharing? How can you show that your work is fair, accurate and trustworthy? In this training, we’ll walk through how to bring your reporting receipts by both explaining how and why you stand for facts, and by showing how you consistently source information and stories.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Trusting News
What: Our discussion will start with AP reporting of the 2022 mayoral race in Shreveport, Louisiana, where the incumbent mayor faced an AI-driven deepfake attack ad. Then we will explore how AI is reshaping the political landscape locally, especially in smaller races where resources are limited. Next, some common tells of manipulated and generative AI content. The session will include time for audience questions.
Who: Dan Merica, investigative reporter, Associated Press; Ali Swenson, national political reporter, Associated Press; Beatrice Dupuy, newsgathering producer, Associated Press.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Associated Press
What: How to create seamless viewer experiences across multiple devices. Effective strategies for leveraging data to optimize ad placements. New strategies in maintaining viewer engagement and measuring success.
Who: Dina M. Roman, SVP, Global Advertising Sales & Operations; Fubo; Jennifer Laing, SVP, Operations, Causal IQ; Stephen Jepson President, Media Effectiveness, DISQO.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: AdWeek
What: We will: Connect you with reporters and editors who will share the habits and practices that generate leads. Talk about keeping our eyes open and the reporting methods that turn nascent ideas into coverage that makes climate change real and relevant.
Who: The Los Angeles Times’ Tony Barboza; Canary Media’s Maria Gallucci; Nina Ignaczak at Planet Detroit and Delaney Dryfoos with The Lens.
When: 1 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Poynter and the Society of Environmental Journalists
What: A conversation around the challenges that marketing teams face during big world events and get actionable solutions and tips to navigate these complexities with confidence.
Who: Layla Revis Sprout Social; Nathan Jun Poekert Jun Social
When: 2 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: Sprout Social
What: In this webinar you’ll hear big-picture ideas and hands-on, practical tips you can use today to improve your work using AI.
Who: Sree Sreenivasan, CEO, Digimentors & former Chief Digital Officer of New York City, former Columbia Journalism School professor and associate dean.
When: 3 pm, Eastern
Where: Zoom
Cost: Free
Sponsor: College Media Association
The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful. - Leo Tolstoy (born Sept. 9, 1828)
The forest would be quite silent if only the most beautiful birds sang.
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