Poynter. Monday November 28, 2022
Here’s some unexpected good news about local journalism: During the COVID-19 pandemic, more U.S. consumers read and subscribed to local news publications. Industry experts expected that trend to reverse as people returned to offices, but, reports Poynter, new data shows that even as the pandemic eased, subscriptions have continued to rise. “The headline is that the bottom has not fallen out,” says Ed Malthouse, the Erastus Otis Haven Professor and Research Director for the Medill IMC Spiegel Research Center at Northwestern University’s Medill School.
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David Schonauer Monday November 28, 2022
Bloomberg noted recently that media companies are having their worst year in decades. That includes social media. Over the past weeks, companies from Amazon to Elon Musk's Twitter have been laying off
employees--than 35,000 tech workers across 72 companies have lost jobs in November, according to NPR. Slate calls it the end of Silicon Valley's 20-year boom. Meta, which is in the process of … Read the full Story >>
The New York Times Friday November 25, 2022
Famed art director George Lois, who put the counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s into postwar advertising and created stunning covers for Esquire magazine that rebuked American racism and involvement in the Vietnam War, died on Nov. 18 at his home in Manhattan. He was 91. Lois was a Madison Avenue legend, creating witty and irreverent ad campaigns. His famous Esquire covers used photography to help visually define the 1960s era—in one, Andy Warhol was depicted drowning in a giant can of Campbell’s tomato soup—and reinvigorate magazine journalism.
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PetaPixel Friday November 25, 2022
While AI image generators synthesize pictures from text prompts, photographers can upload their own photos as a guide, notes PetaPixel. That is what Antti Karppinen did recently. After uploading his fantastical photos into the AI generator Midjourney, he typed in a text prompt that roughly described the work and asked it to recreate his images. The results, notes PP, were astonishing. “I’ve been playing with AI for almost a year now and I’m starting to get the hang of it even though the technology is moving at the speed of light,” Karppinen says.
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