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AI: great storytelling device but a terrible device to tell stories.

Small towns continue to get kicked in the teeth by corporate behemoths.
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2024/gannett-hits-pause-button-on-its-promise-to-restaff-its-smallest-papers/

Gannett hits pause button on its promise to restaff its smallest papers - Poynter
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.

Small towns continue to get kicked in the teeth by corporate behemoths.
https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2024/gannett-hits-pause-button-on-its-promise-to-restaff-its-smallest-papers/

Gannett hits pause button on its promise to restaff its smallest papers - Poynter
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.

We review the high end Wolf Coffee machine. We examine why Tyler Perry is right to embrace AI entertainment. We compare API friendliness for Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral and Perplexity!
Here's the question we asked all our API Bots in our test:
"Where do you start to write a story? Explain your process. As well, tell us why the name 'Elara' is so often used by LLMs in creative storytelling as a name."

It's really good to be a wrestling fan today. Last night Raw was the best wrestling show I saw in a long time. Fantastic storytelling. Great matches.
#WWERAW #FinishTheStory #CodyRhodes …

Movies amd games were storytelling, uniting viewers with a single vision. When they go personalized, I wonder how much unification will be left.

Press Forward, the philanthropic initiative to invest $500M over five years in local news, says 11 new communities have joined six established chapters (Kristen Hare/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2024/press-forward-announces-loc…

Press Forward announces local expansion - Poynter
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their careers.

I love it. Sometimes I wish storytelling is as accessible to everyone. But I know better: if I want to tell stories to my kid, it needs to be with my own characters. I'm not grown up enough to be Bandit Heeler https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

Scrolly2Reel: Turning News Graphics into TikToks by Adjusting Narrative Beats and Pacing
Duy K. Nguyen, Jenny Ma, Pedro Alejandro Perez, Lydia B. Chilton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18111

Scrolly2Reel: Turning News Graphics into TikToks by Adjusting Narrative Beats and Pacing
As media evolves, storytelling evolves. In 2012, newspapers introduced scrollytelling sequences, or "scrollies," to make news more immersive and interactive on the web. As users scroll through an article, graphics like animation, charts, and 3D visualizations appear to provide visual dynamics to the story. Today, news consumption is shifting to short-video platforms like TikTok, particularly among younger audiences. We propose repurposing the assets from scrollies and computationally transform …

Rewatching Andor and it is just so very good. Excellent storytelling through film. The production design, the writing, the music, the acting. All excellent.