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Media Archives -
28
Nov
The Recorder, a local newspaper covering three rural counties in western Virginia, was recently featured in a PBS NewsHour segment about the sustainability of local journalism. Additionally, The Recorder was singled out this year as one of 17 “Bright Spots” for local news outlets, as part of the 2023 “State of Local News Project” published by the Local News Initiative at Northeastern University’s Medill School of Journalism. The report, in […]
5
Nov
In the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence (AI), publishers are finding themselves at a crossroads. The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (G-AI) systems has brought about a technological revolution, but with it comes a pressing question: How do we protect our creative content in this new digital age? The Challenge: A recent white paper by the News-Media Alliance highlights a critical issue facing publishers today—the pervasive copying of expressive […]
4
Oct
Kevin shares what he learned while critiquing papers in Colorado The following is a guest post contributed by our friend and partner, Kevin Slimp! A funny thing happened to me in Denver a few days ago while I was in town to speak at the Colorado Press Association Convention. I had just finished my fourth presentation of the weekend. The topic was “Designing a Better Newspaper.” Most of the folks […]
30
Aug
The following is a Guest Column contributed by our friend and colleague Kevin Slimp ahead of our September webinar, “Combining the Power of Photoshop & InDesign” on the 15th! Younger readers might not know what I’m writing about when I mention Facebook “memories.” Still, most of you are familiar with those daily reminders that pop up each morning to remind you of what you were doing one, two, or even […]
2
Aug
The following guest column was contributed by our friend and partner Kevin Slimp of the Kevin Slimp Webinar Series. My friend, Kari, wrote to me from her newspaper in Indiana this morning. Her message reminded me of the questions I received daily when doing I.T. work for newspaper groups a decade or two ago. Her email went something like this: “The PDF file of this page looks perfect, but the […]
26
Jul
Our-Hometown will be hosting a LIVE WEBINAR on Protecting Your Content from AI next month on September 21st at 2PM Eastern. With so much focus lately on new AI technologies and the limitless potential they represent for news publishers, one negative that has often gone overlooked is the risk of AI scraping your content without your permission. One way that AI language models train themselves to remain current is to […]
5
Jul
Our-Hometown, Inc. will be hosting a LIVE WEBINAR on Reverse Publishing AI Generated Content later this month on July 20th at 3PM Eastern. We’ve recently hosted live webinars on AI Generated Content and AI Generated Imagery, demonstrating how publishers can leverage the power of popular AI models like ChatGPT and DALL-E to produce written articles and related stock imagery for their websites. Now, we’re ready to tie it all together and demonstrate how […]
25
May
Our-Hometown, Inc. will be hosting a LIVE WEBINAR on using AI for Image Generation on June 29th at 3PM Eastern. We’ve seen AI technologies advance at a rapid pace throughout the first half of 2023, and that trend isn’t expected to stall out any time soon. One of the major tools released to the public this year is DALL-E 2 by OpenAI (the same company who brought you ChatGPT). DALL-E 2 […]
18
May
During Our-Hometown’s recent webinar, participants gained valuable insights and practical knowledge on effectively utilizing ChatGPT, an advanced language model, for content creation. The webinar aimed to showcase the capabilities of ChatGPT in generating high-quality content and provided attendees with tips, strategies, and best practices for leveraging this AI technology in their content generation process. Throughout the webinar, participants deepened their understanding of how to harness the power of ChatGPT to […]
17
May
In this tutorial, we’ll explore two valuable Chrome extensions that enhance web design and content creation. They offer features for previewing websites on various device sizes and capturing screenshots and videos effortlessly. Join us as we discover how these extensions streamline your workflow.