Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social
Nick Hune-Brown
@nickhunebrown.bsky.social
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Toronto magazine writer and executive editor @thelocal.to. Here for smart long-form articles and dumb basketball posts. Email nick@thelocal.to
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She's literally everywhere, I cannot believe how many editors have said they were pitched by her since we published
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I will not concede the em dash to AI, this is driving me crazy!
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"Every media era gets the fabulists it deserves... this generation’s internet scammers are scavenging in the wreckage of a degraded media environment." Oof, this bleakly fascinating story from @nickhunebrown.bsky.social is today's media industry must-read, and with a hell of a kicker:
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
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Yup, that's one thing we've done. We now require an annotated draft, and mention that when we assign.
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Yes, I have no idea how a new, unknown writer gets started in this business now, what a mess.
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Just gasped out loud here
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Yes, but you'd have to ask the editors that published and paid the writer. They didn't answer my questions about that
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exactly
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But here there was a long publication history at a bunch of reputable publications here! And also, I'll say that at The Local we WANT to take risks on new writers who don't have lengthy histories and can bring us new perspectives. Not sure how to do that going forward
