How is artificial intelligence making marketers more productive? How are journalists approaching the ethical dilemmas inherent to AI content creation? And how can scrappy startups hope to compete with well-funded… Read More
The New York Times filed a lawsuit Wednesday against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of copyright infringement for training artificial intelligence models on millions of articles published by the… Read More
Jeff Bezos made news this week with a rare visit to the newspaper that he owns. The Amazon founder attended a news meeting at The Washington Post on Thursday, sparking… Read More
Amazon’s desire to stream more live sports has the company looking at launching a standalone app for such content, according to a report Wednesday in The Information. The website cited… Read More
Stack, a Seattle-based startup building a platform that enables teens to invest in and learn about cryptocurrencies, has raised $2.7 million to boost its content production arm. The funding comes… Read More
Seattle entrepreneur and tech veteran Jonathan Sposato is launching another media property with the arrival Wednesday of JoySauce Network, an entertainment platform geared toward spotlighting and celebrating American Asian personalities… Read More
See disclosures at bottom of story. Nearly 13 years after New York-based Hearst Corp. made the Seattle Post-Intelligencer the country’s first major metro daily newspaper to go online-only, seattlepi.com will… Read More
Audible, the audiobook service owned by Amazon, has discontinued its daily audio digests of stories from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. The audio programs, which… Read More
Bill Gates is backing a new online climate news publication called Cipher that is slated to start publishing on Sept. 29. The Cipher news site is being led by Seattle-based… Read More
The editor who has been in charge of The Washington Post newsroom ever since Jeff Bezos bought the newspaper is stepping down at the end of the month. In a… Read More
Maven, the Seattle-based media company that publishes Sports Illustrated, among other magazines, is hearing from employees upset about a pro-police website that is part of the company’s portfolio. The Daily… Read More
Grist, the Seattle-based non-profit online magazine that has covered climate, sustainability, social justice and more for 20 years, has acquired the assets of Pacific Standard, a magazine focused on many… Read More
Sports Illustrated publisher Maven fired top soccer journalist Grant Wahl for his criticism of how the company handled job cuts and salary reductions amid the COVID-19 outbreak, according to an… Read More
Seattle tech veteran Jonathan Sposato is acquiring Seattle magazine, announcing plans Monday to reinvigorate the 54-year-old publication as a voice for the growing and influential city that has been his… Read More
Nearly a year after stepping down as CEO of Seattle-based Zillow Group, Spencer Rascoff has turned his focus to the tech and startup scene in his hometown of Los Angeles,… Read More
The New York Times of 2019 is a different animal than the daily print newspaper that defined the publication for most of its life. Today, The Times is a multimedia… Read More
News this summer that Starbucks would be pulling print copies of The New York Times and other publications from its cafes landed like a cup of spilled coffee on our… Read More
Amazon moved further into the sports media world Thursday as Disney announced the sale of its stake in the YES Network to an investor group that includes the Seattle-based tech… Read More
Amazon wants to pay some of the biggest names in American publishing to expand internationally. That’s according to Vox’s Peter Kafka. Sources tell him that Amazon has pitched the New… Read More
It may feel like animosity toward the media is at an all-time high, but the head of The New York Times newsroom says it’s nothing new. What has changed, according… Read More
One of the most fascinating things about Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is that building one of the world’s most successful companies was merely a first step. He founded a space… Read More
Updated below with American Media Inc. statement. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has published a remarkable new response in his ongoing feud with the National Enquirer, accusing the publication and its… Read More
Snopes wasn’t trying to make a statement when it announced the end of its partnership with Facebook last week. David Mikkelson, founder of the fact-checking organization, said there was a… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos reportedly stays clear of the day-to-day operations of The Washington Post. But for a better understanding of the day-to-day news being produced by the newspaper he… Read More
When news broke that Amazon would split its immensely hyped second headquarters between two cities, journalists covering the year-long search were less than thrilled. The Information’s Nick Winfield called it… Read More
Twitter is partnering with Seattle-area startup Tagboard to help video news producers highlight tweets tied to political issues and races in live broadcasts. Today the two tech companies launched Tagboard… Read More
The Washington Post is expanding its coverage of the technology industry, including a focus on Jeff Bezos’ other company. The Post posted openings for 12 jobs this morning for editors,… Read More
Fringe groups are seeking to manipulate the media and tech companies with accusations of anti-conservative bias, aiming to invoke anger among conservatives and provoke reactions from journalists and the tech… Read More
A whopping 79 percent of Americans believe that tech companies should be regulated in the same way that news organizations are, according to a new survey from Gallup and Knight… Read More
New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman has had enough of the “anger video game.” That’s how she describes what it’s like to be on Twitter in these days of heightened… Read More
