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☆ The New York Times is facing backlash over its coverage of Donald Trump and the 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Oliver Darcy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

New York CNN —The New York Times is facing a sustained wave of backlash. It is your agenda.”The Times is, of course, far from the only news organization that has faced criticism over how it has covered the 2024 race. There is a mountain of thorny issues at the doorstep of outlets like The Times — and often there is no clear answer. For example, after the 2020 election, the conventional wisdom was that the press should largely ignore Trump’s antics. “But if Democrats lose to Trump after all THAT coverage, the fault will not be in the media, but in themselves.”

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☆ OpenAI is working on AI education and safety initiative with Common Sense media
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-29 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | In | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

OpenAI said Monday that it's partnering with Common Sense Media on an initiative designed to help teens understand how to use artificial intelligence in a safe manner. Common Sense, a nonprofit focused on making technology safe and accessible to kids, has been working to develop an AI ratings and review system intended for parents, children and educators to better understand the technology's risks and benefits. In September, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the Craigslist founder's philanthropic arm, said it contributed $3 million to help fund a Common Sense artificial intelligence and education initiative. OpenAI and Common Sense didn't say how LLMs will be tweaked to help aid educators or teens. Altman said LLMs customized for educational purposes could help teens "who want to learn about science or learn about biology."

Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, Jim Steyer, Altman, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Newmark Organizations: Economic, Media, Craigslist, CNBC, Microsoft Locations: Davos, Switzerland, San Francisco

☆ News industry off to brutal 2024 start as mass layoffs devastate publishers, raising questions about future of journalism
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Oliver Darcy | Jon Passantino | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The recent round of layoffs, while pronounced, are part of a much larger and unrelenting storm battering the journalism industry. Over the past 18 months, most news organizations have been forced to make difficult decisions to reduce their workforces. “I am sorry to say that I do not see turning around most legacy outlets,” Jeff Jarvis, the Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, told CNN. Dan Kennedy, a journalism professor at Northeastern University, noted some local news outlets have found financial sustainability. “There are reasons to be optimistic given the hundreds of independent local news organizations that have sprouted up in recent years,” he said.

Persons: Condé Nast, ” Jay Rosen, “, Jeff Jarvis, Craig Newmark, ” Jarvis, ” Rosen, Steve Bannon’s, Margaret Sullivan, Sullivan, ”, ” Sullivan, Jeff Bezos ’, Patrick Soon, Dan Kennedy, Shiong’s, Jeff Bezos, ” Kennedy, Rosen Organizations: CNN, Los Angeles Times, Business, Condé, Forbes, The New York Daily News, Washington Post, NPR, Vice Media, Sports, Vox Media, NBC News, CNBC, Gannett, Netflix, Columbia University, Google, Meta, New York University, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, America, Guardian, The Washington Post, The New York Times, “ Democracy, Jeff Bezos ’ Washington Post, Northeastern University, “ Billionaire, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Boston Globe, Journalists Locations: Covid, Jeff Bezos ’ Washington

☆ Ben Foldy — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Ben Foldy | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Ben FoldyBen Foldy is an investigative reporter in The Journal's finance section, based in New York City. He often writes about fraud, financial crime, cryptocurrency and corporate malfeasance. Before this role, Ben covered the automotive industry from Detroit, with a focus on safety, federal policy, startups and the electric transition. In 2022, Ben reported and hosted the second season of The Journal's "Bad Bets" podcast, focused on the rise and fall of Nikola founder Trevor Milton. Ben worked for Bloomberg News and the Financial Times before joining the Journal in 2019.

Persons: Ben Foldy Ben Foldy, Ben, Nikola, Trevor Milton, Craig Newmark Organizations: Bloomberg News, Financial Times, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, City University of New, McGill University Locations: New York City, Detroit, multibillion, Carvana, City University of New York

☆ Opinion | The Jewish Left Is Trying to Hold Two Thoughts at Once
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

So far, more than 5,000 Palestinians are reported dead and many more injured. There’s no one way to cover this that reconciles all that is happening and all that needs to be felt. So I invited Spencer Ackerman and Peter Beinart on to the show. Peter Beinart is an editor-at-large of Jewish Currents, the author of the Beinart Notebook newsletter and a professor of journalism at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. (A full transcript of the episode will be available midday on the Times website.)

Persons: Israel, There’s, Spencer Ackerman, Peter Beinart, “, Ezra Klein, Ackerman, Trump, Craig Newmark Organizations: Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google, The, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, Times Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Neighbors app floods police inboxes with alerts that have nothing to do with crimes
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Lam Thuy Vo | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +17 min

People can use Neighbors to publish footage alongside their posts; when the posts are forwarded to police officers, officers can click through to view the accompanying media. "All posts and comments on Neighbors are publicly viewable on the Neighbors feed by users and public safety agencies alike. As with Poole, other LAPD officers The Markup identified as using Neighbors to keep tabs on crime did not respond to requests for interviews. To familiarize LAPD officers with the platform, the company organized in-person training sessions as well as video calls. In this dataset, at least 26 LAPD officers posted in Neighbors at least once and received responses from users.

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☆ Craigslist founder Craig Newmark is pouring millions of dollars into combating AI's dark side
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-14 | by ( Jonathan Vanian | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

Since the 2015 debut of Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the entrepreneur has donated many millions of dollars to various causes involving media and technology. Newmark, 70, spoke to CNBC as he was recovering from a minor heart procedure he went through in late August. At the same time, he's worried that tech companies, particularly in social media, "aren't even trying anymore to get rid of stuff they know is dishonest," he said. "Protecting kids when it comes to AI is a big issue," Newmark said, regarding his donation to Common Sense Media. Within journalism, Newmark's most high-profile endeavor is the City University of New York's Craig Newmark Graduate School in Journalism.

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☆ Denny Jacob — Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Denny Jacob | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Denny JacobDenny Jacob covers breaking financial news for The Wall Street Journal. He has a master’s degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. Email him at denny.jacob@wsj.com or follow him on Twitter: @pennedbyden.

Persons: Denny Jacob Denny Jacob, Craig Newmark Organizations: Wall Street, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY, Twitter

☆ Dalvin Brown — Personal Tech reporter at The Wall Street Journal
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Dalvin Brown | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Dalvin BrownDalvin Brown is a Personal Tech reporter at The Wall Street Journal and host of a tech YouTube channel. Dalvin previously covered innovation for the Washington Post, and before that wrote about consumer tech at USA Today. A graduate of Baruch College and an Ida B. Wells Scholar at City University of New York, Dalvin has a master’s degree from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in business and economics reporting. He’s a 2020 recipient of the Frederic Wiegold Prize for Business Journalism.

Persons: Dalvin Brown Dalvin Brown, Ida B, Dalvin, Craig Newmark, He’s, Frederic Wiegold Organizations: Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA, Baruch College, Wells, City University of New, Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, Business Journalism Locations: City University of New York

☆ Opinion: The fifth Beatle is artificial intelligence
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Opinion Jere Hester | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —Who’s the fifth Beatle? But now there’s a 21st century contender for the honor: artificial intelligence. The band took some flak for releasing two songs years after Lennon’s murder in 1980. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album with trippy loops and other innovations that changed the course of popular music. But in the right hands — in this case, Jackson and McCartney’s — AI can be a tool that wields magic.

Persons: Jere Hester, Craig Newmark, CNN —, Jere Hester John Smock, Sir George Martin, Brian Epstein, Stuart Sutcliffe, Sir Paul McCartney’s, John Lennon’s, Lennon, McCartney, Peter Jackson, ”, Yoko Ono, Lennon’s, Jackson, McCartney’s, Facebook McCartney, Ringo Starr, Ono, George Harrison’s, Olivia, Let’s Organizations: Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, CUNY, CNN, BBC Radio, Twitter, Beatles Locations: Liverpool

A person who works with the group, American Edge Project, told CNBC that the $34 million was from Facebook. A Meta spokesman declined to comment and referred CNBC to American Edge instead. The person who works with American Edge told CNBC that the $4 million was also entirely from Facebook. American Edge launched a wave of TV and digital ads from late 2020 through 2021, taking on antitrust proposals. American Edge spent over $5 million between TV and digital ads in 2021, according to data from AdImpact.

☆ Nearly 1 in 4 U.S. hospitalized patients experience a harmful event, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-11 | by ( Kaitlin Sullivan | Kaitlin Sullivan Is A Contributor For Nbcnews.Com Who Has Worked With Nbc News Investigations. She Reports On Health | Science | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

The stark findings underscore that, despite decades of effort, hospitals in the United States still have a long way to go to improve patient safety, experts say. A total of 222 adverse events were considered preventable, meaning an error resulted in patient harm. Twenty-nine people, or 1% of the total of those admitted, experienced serious preventable adverse events that resulted in serious harm. The most common adverse events overall (nearly 40%) were related to medications given in the hospital. It used data from patients hospitalized in New York state in 1984, and found that only about 4% of hospitalized patients experienced harm.

☆ New guidelines for treating childhood obesity include medications and surgery for first time
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Kaitlin Sullivan | Kaitlin Sullivan Is A Contributor For Nbcnews.Com Who Has Worked With Nbc News Investigations. She Reports On Health | Science | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

Intensive behavioral and lifestyle changes should be the first-line approach, but the AAP also includes recommendations for anti-obesity medications and surgery for the first time. The guidelines say that pediatricians should offer weight-loss drugs for children age 12 and up with obesity. She also acknowledged that these lifestyle changes can be really hard to adopt, especially for overworked and low-income parents. The more adverse the environment around you, the harder it is to live a healthy lifestyle,” Hassink said. Medications and surgery are expensive, and asking overstretched parents to implement lifestyle changes is not always realistic.

This year brought a fascinating and eclectic number of books by Latino authors to store shelves and online selections, spanning different genres and earning high praise from readers and reviewers alike. Below is our list of 10 very distinctive works by U.S. Latino authors. The compelling novel has been recognized as one of the top 10 books of 2022 by The New York Times and The Washington Post and as one of the best books of 2022 by Time, NPR, Vogue, Oprah Daily and others. Although Villanueva's life took a different turn, many of his followers and their children, known as "Inca Jews," are still in Israel. She writes about how an abortion saved her life and candidly details her experiences dealing with suicidal thoughts and depression.

☆ The only thing Elon Musk understands about Twitter is how to kill it
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Adam Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +15 min

Biologists, anthropologists, and information theorists do think that social networks, like Musk's bird app, show at least some signs of being flocks. "Elon's tweet is basically espousing the invisible hand of social behavior," Bak-Coleman says. In this construction, a social network might have become a collective superintelligence, had capitalists left it to its — our? Under Musk, Twitter has entered the dance-off phase. I'll be sad if the Twitter superintelligence starts singing a Kubrickian cover of "Daisy" and implodes into a pile of melting isolinear chips.

☆ Frozen embryos linked to increased risk of hypertensive disorders during pregnancy, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Kaitlin Sullivan | Kaitlin Sullivan Is A Contributor For Nbcnews.Com Who Has Worked With Nbc News Investigations. She Reports On Health | Science | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Undergoing in vitro fertilization using frozen embryos is linked to a greater risk of hypertensive disorders, including preeclampsia, during pregnancy, according to research published Monday in the journal Hypertension. Overall, the risk of hypertensive disorders was low: about 7.4% in women who used frozen embryos, compared with 5.6% in women who used fresh embryos and 4.3% for women who conceived naturally. In addition, they found, there was no significant difference in risk between the women who conceived naturally and those who did IVF using fresh embryos. The group included 4.4 million naturally conceived pregnancies and compared them to just over 78,000 IVF pregnancies conceived using a fresh embryo and about 18,000 using a frozen embryo. Petersen emphasized that the overall risk for preeclampsia was still low and that the results of the new study should not scare women away from using frozen embryos.

☆ Cancer death rates continue to fall, driven by new treatments and improved screening
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Kaitlin Sullivan | Kaitlin Sullivan Is A Contributor For Nbcnews.Com Who Has Worked With Nbc News Investigations. She Reports On Health | Science | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Significant strides in cancer treatments, diagnostic tools and prevention strategies continue to drive down cancer death rates, according to a report published Wednesday by the American Association for Cancer Research. Death rates from cancer have been falling over the past two decades, particularly sharply in recent years, the group's annual Cancer Progress Report found. “Cancer cells are mavericks, but they are your own cells. Coussens also highlighted developments in cancer drugs that work by targeting specific DNA mutations in cancer cells but noted that more work is still needed. Catching cancer earlyAlso key to cutting cancer death rates is catching the disease as early as possible.

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