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Zachary Chen, chief executive of Hoodline parent company Impress3, which acquired the site in 2020, defended the site’s use of AI and its transparency with readers, telling CNN the outlet provides valuable reporting in news deserts around the country and is generating revenue to hire more human journalists in the future.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/30/media/ai-bylines-local-news-hoodline/index.html
A national network of local news sites is publishing AI-written articles under fake bylines. Experts are raising alarm
By Hadas Gold, CNN
A news desert refers to a community that is no longer covered by daily or nondaily newspapers. The term emerged in the United States after hundreds of daily and weekly newspapers were closed in the 2000s and the 2010s. According to a study in 2018 by the UNC School of Media and Journalism, more than 1,300 communities in the U.S. are considered news deserts.[1] Other communities, while not technically a news desert, may be covered by a ghost newspaper
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_desert