Amy Webb

China and the AI Edge

By Amy Webb• Books• March 5, 2019

In “The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity,” published March 5 by PublicAffairs, Amy Webb examines how artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving in China and the U.S. and explores three … Read more

The Coming Splinternet: How the GDPR Could Threaten Journalism

By Amy Webb• Opinion• May 21, 2018

At the end of May, European regulators will implement sweeping privacy rules known as the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. The GDPR is intended to harmonize data protection regulations throughout the European Union … Read more

Let’s Stop Blaming Facebook and Google and Start Fixing the News Business

By Amy Webb• Opinion• May 8, 2017

Yesterday, New York Times media columnist Jim Rutenberg argued that America’s advertisers have a civic obligation to save the news. Not only is he wrong, but he’s giving a free pass to news executives to keep their … Read more

AI Is Journalism’s Next Big Threat (or Opportunity)

By Amy Webb• Opinion• April 24, 2017

Recently I watched a 15-second Burger King commercial, which was designed to trigger my voice-activated Google devices. In the ad, a Burger King employee, standing behind a counter at the restaurant, stared into my screen and told … Read more

Why News Organizations Should Buy Twitter

By Amy Webb• Opinion• January 27, 2017

Since its founding, Twitter has always lost money—more than $2 billion since 2011 alone. Oddly enough, Twitter now faces the same problem as newsrooms did back in the day when RSS first arrived on the scene. Once … Read more

A Blueprint for How to Make J-School Matter (Again)

By Amy Webb• Features• March 19, 2015

In the fall of 2000, I sat in the large seminar room at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism listening to a lecture about whether journalists should be allowed to use digital cameras. It was meant to be … Read more

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