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0What was Quartz?
2025-04-07 • social media business journalism quartz g/o media
The text discusses the rise and fall of the media brand Quartz, from its inception in 2012 to its eventual acquisition by G/O Media and subsequent decline. It highlights the challenges faced by the company, its financial struggles...
The text is about a panel at Web Summit in Lisbon where the author discussed how AI is being used among journalists at The New York Times. The author talks about three areas of focus: investigative reporting, internal workflows, a...
0Stephen Clark Seward
2024-06-19 •
The text is a eulogy written by Zach Seward for his father, Stephen Clark Seward, who recently passed away. Zach shares various anecdotes and memories of his father, highlighting his dedication, compassion, and love for his family...
0AI is not like you and me
2024-05-02 •
The text discusses the anthropomorphization of AI and how it can lead to confusion and misunderstanding of the technology. It highlights the importance of treating AI as a tool rather than a human-like entity, and the potential co...
0Creating structure with generative AI
2024-04-12 •
The text discusses the use of generative AI to create structure out of messy data that already exists, rather than creating entirely new text or images. It provides examples of how journalists have used generative AI to structure ...
0AI news that's fit to print
2024-03-11 •
Zach Seward, the editorial director of AI initiatives at The New York Times, discusses the use of AI in journalism. He highlights examples of AI journalism gone wrong and successful uses of AI in journalism, including recognizing ...
0Migration is about migrants
2023-09-13 •
Mayor Eric Adams expressed xenophobic views about migrants, blaming them for destroying New York City. His comments were condemned but defended by Michael Bloomberg. The media's coverage of migration is biased, focusing on institu...
0The blackout
2023-08-13 •
The text describes a blackout in New York City and the impact it had on a summer camp in central Maine. The campers were kept in the dark about the situation, and life at the camp continued as usual until the power was restored.
0Keeping score
2023-08-07 •
The author reflects on the experience of keeping score at a baseball game with his son, and how it allows him to be more present and attentive to details. He compares keeping score to taking photos, and discusses the power of memo...
0Who's helping migrants in New York City?
2023-08-03 •
The text discusses the challenges faced by newly arrived migrants in New York City, particularly in terms of finding food, shelter, and protection. It highlights the inhumane conditions and lack of support from the city and federa...
0The jackpot is a lie
2023-08-01 •
The blog post discusses how lottery jackpots are a scam, with the value of the jackpot being inflated and the odds of winning becoming increasingly difficult. It explains how the cash value and advertised value of the jackpot diff...
The blog post discusses the efforts made by Quartz to diversify its newsroom, focusing on the period from mid-2020 to mid-2022. The author shares the tactics that were implemented, such as adopting a formal affirmative-action plan...
0Nauru
2023-07-21 •
Nauru, the world's third-smallest country by population, has a history of colonial extraction and devastation. The island nation has been viewed as a commodity to be bought and sold, rather than an independent nation. The country ...
0Feast your eyes on these delicious charts
2023-07-19 •
The blog post discusses the author's obsession with creating data visualizations that resemble food, particularly charts that look delicious. The author shares examples of charts that resemble food, such as watermelon slices, cond...
Maya Bodnick, a Harvard student, used OpenAI's ChatGPT-4 to grade papers and found that it could pass a typical freshman year at Harvard with good grades. The author reflects on his own experience failing out of Harvard and questi...
0What a difference year-over-year makes
2023-07-14 •
The text discusses the confusion around inflation reporting and the challenges of understanding rates of change. It emphasizes the need for more narrative analysis and drawing one's own conclusions from economic data.
0Presumed audiences in digital media
2023-07-13 •
The text discusses the concept of presumed audiences in digital media, highlighting how news organizations often write for a specific group of people without acknowledging others. It emphasizes the importance of writing for a defi...