A new Beehiiv and Cloudflare partnership will let independent journalists allow or block access for each AI crawler scraping their work.
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- SaySo, a video news app that launched in April, aims to provide “vetted creators, real stories, zero doom scroll.”
- Media outlets that require human review of all AI content were seen as more credible, and were chosen as news sources more often, according to a new study.
- This month saw the launch of The Porter Square Review of Books. The store’s booksellers and writers-in-residence have begun publishing weekly book reviews on its website.
- A new partnership between Beehiiv and Cloudflare gives independent journalists a suite of tools to control which AI crawlers are scraping their work.
- Full Fact's suite of AI tools on a typical day processes about a third of a million sentences — and has been used by over 40 fact-checking organizations across 30 countries.
- In Asia, 47% of people surveyed by the Reuters Institute say they watch news videos on YouTube weekly. In Latin America, the same proportion are regularly watching news videos on Facebook.
- Countries where people already rely more heavily on search engines, social and video networks, and aggregators for news also tend to have higher levels of AI chatbot use for news.
- The British government wants to force more trustworthy news into your doomscrolling
- The use of AI chatbots for news is on the rise — but not everywhere
- “For us at the Globe, it’s been a reminder that we are a media organization, but we’re also part of the fabric of this region."
- A lack of books coverage, including book reviews, “hurts everyone in the books ecosystem: readers, writers, publishers, and, of course, bookstores,” Porter Square Books said in its Book Review announcement.
- News sites are rapidly becoming the newspapers of the digital age. And you know what happened to newspapers.
