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In January, more than 500 journalists were fired from media outlets in the United States.

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More 500 journalists were fired media such as NBCNews, Magazine Time, Business Insider and The Los Angeles Timesin the US in January, according to the company’s latest report.

In January, more than 500 journalists were fired from media outlets in the United States.

More 500 journalists were fired media such as NBCNews, Magazine Time, Business Insider and The Los Angeles Timesin the US in January, according to the company’s latest report. Challenger, Gray and Christmas.

The vocational transition company indicates that there were 528 layoffs in January, This is a 1,660% increase from the 30 recorded in December and the highest monthly figure since March 2023, when 532 layoffs were recorded.

To this number must be added the journalists left without work after the closure this week. Messengerdigital media created in May 2023.

The organization hired about 300 people, including journalists, last year, it said. New York Times.

These cuts follow a 2023 trend where U.S. media They cut 3,087 jobs This is the highest annual figure since 2020, when 16,060 layoffs were recorded.

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Last year, Business Insider Los Angeles Times and NPR They cut it out at least 10 percent of their workforce, Buzzfeed closed the news section and National Geography He fired the remaining journalists.

On average, five local newspapers close every two weeks, according to Northwestern University’s Medill School.

Layoffs in the middle of the election year

After the announcement of Los Angeles Times lay off at least 115 people, or more than 20 percent of the newsroom’s workforce, his union president Brian Contreras said in a statement. Cuts Are Destroying Your Washington Office. in an election year.

Layoffs Los Angeles Times They came four days after the newspaper’s workers staged the first strike in the newspaper’s 142-year history.

Last Tuesday over 400 employees Conde Nast -parent company Vanity Fair, Fashion And GQthey went on strike for 24 hours and they marched in World Trade Center from New York to protest the company’s plan to lay off employees.

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Another major challenge for journalism is generative artificial intelligence (AI)both to detect the false information it may produce and to ensure that news published by the media does not feed into this technology without financial reward or that AI is used to replace editors.

A year ago, Buzzfeed announced that it plans to use OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, to creating some content.

In its turn, New York Times He sued Microsoft and OpenAI for using his writing without permission to train their AI models.

(EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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