Journalism & Media Ethics, Markkula Ethics Center

The Journalism and Media Ethics Program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at SCU. Tweets by @subbuvincent.

[Journalism & Media Ethics, Markkula Ethics Center @jmethics]

Thread:
1. Today, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics @scuethics is releasing our News Distribution Ethics Roundtable’s Recommendations for public input.
Content Moderation gets a ton of attention, but “News Distribution” happens every second!
https://t.co/BuwTu1ZZjb

[donheider @donheider]

Our Director of Journalism and Media Ethics Subbu Vincent (@subbuvincent) on the quick tenure of Ronna McDaniel. @forbes https://t.co/IY9mmAEACP

[Markkula Center for Applied Ethics @scuethics]

🗣️ Director of Journalism & Media Ethics and @Forbes‘s contributor @subbuvincent (@jmethics) writes about the need for democratized sourcing in journalism, especially regarding local news: https://t.co/ti57zgyIQM.

#️⃣ #Journalism #JournalismMatters #Democracy #Media #ethics

[Subbu Vincent @subbuvincent]

@emilymbender @karanhm134 Despite my lack of surprise at this content-farm approach to producing "news", it still pains me that news websites keep doing this.

Karan, great job with this piece and quoting Emily Blender around the distinctions between actual journalism and generative AI text outputs.

[Subbu Vincent @subbuvincent]

The latest example of exactly what not to use Generative AI tools for. In this case Gemini was used by an Indian news site Biharprabha to "text out" a piece and it did this:

[Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray]

Everyone has heard that there are serious problems with optimizing for engagement. But what are the alternatives?
New paper: we gathered folks from eight platforms for an off-the-record chat to share best practices -- and document them from public sources.
https://t.co/atM0kNurec

[UW Journalism Ethics @UWJournEthics]

Announcing our spring conference, "Journalism Ethics & the AI Challenge," happening at UW–Madison and online on Friday, April 5. Register here: https://t.co/5YxsEfDW0C

[Journalism & Media Ethics, Markkula Ethics Center @jmethics]

@jmethics director @subbuvincent is guest host at This Week in Digital Media on @JoinSubtext next week. More below.

[Subtext @JoinSubtext]

This Week in Digital Media Host Announcement: @subbuvincent, the Director of Journalism & Media Ethics at @scuethics will host next week. He's passionate about the power of ethical media to foster pro-democracy discourse. Join the conversation: https://t.co/UjfAFr1Hsh

[emily bell @emilybell]

This is an insane story from @Knibbs - and for those starry eyed or in denial and AI+ news - a must read. (The bitter irony of Jimmy Lai being wrongly held whilst his abandoned news site Apple Daily is turned into a ChatGPT click farm is peak 2024 ) https://t.co/GKhIBTGUtz

[Journalism & Media Ethics, Markkula Ethics Center @jmethics]

Our team.
Engineering: Xiaoxiao Shang, Aster Li, Ethan Lin, Jinming Nian, Jil Patel (graduated), and Preeti Bhosale (graduated).
Principal Investigators: Yi Fang (Engineering) and @subbuvincent (Journalism and Media Ethics)

[Journalism & Media Ethics, Markkula Ethics Center @jmethics]

This week, we are making a couple of announcements from deep in the weeds of @jmethics at @scuethics.

Today, we released version 3.0-beta of the Source Diversity Dashboard WordPress plugin for US newsrooms.
https://t.co/AGn94ETQx7

[Journalism & Media Ethics, Markkula Ethics Center @jmethics]

We've documented all of the new features and design elements, with full credits to newsroom leads and others here.
https://t.co/AGn94ETQx7

[Markkula Center for Applied Ethics @scuethics]

🗣️ Dir., Journalism & Media Ethics @subbuvincent (@jmethics) writes in @Forbes about the costs, both economically and ethically, when AI is used in content creation, especially #journalism:

🔗 https://t.co/XpmklnnkQY

#️⃣ #AI #GenerativeAI #Media #ethics

[Talia Stroud @TaliaStroud]

Delighted to share some of the findings from this collaboration!

[Subbu Vincent @subbuvincent]

When a news outlet opens up to explain its ethics to readers, it’s not uncommon to see the readers reciprocate. They spontaneously loop other readers in. And you create a journalistic community.

Transparency. Easy to talk, hard to do. This is doing:

https://t.co/4ARrOiKhB4