Campaigns
The Influencer
Columbia Journalism Review
"Trump loved how much attention the stream was getting—“He kept talking about it,” Bruesewitz recalled—and Bruesewitz sensed an opportunity. The next day, he presented Trump with a tally of not just the show’s official livestream numbers—which topped out at around 600,000—but all of the clips he could find going viral on the secondary market. “So instead of thinking, Hey, this interview got three million views, I was like, ‘Sir, your interview got 110 million views.’ And he’d be like, ‘Insane!’”
Content
What Campaigners Need To Know About Writing For AI
Campaign Trend
"Make sure written content has a concise summary, clear subheadings, or FAQ boxes so the AI model can lift the core insight without wading through fluff."
Fundraising
NGP VAN's Donation Processing Platform is Getting an Upgrade
Campaigns & Elections
"In the coming weeks and months, the company plans to introduce a streamlined, three-step donation form that it hopes will increase donor conversion rates. There are also plans to introduce support for donors’ mobile wallets and one-lick donations via Stripe Link."
International
50 biggest UK news websites: Substack enters ranking in March
Press Gazette
"This means Substack now reaches 6% of the UK population, more than US news website CNN which dropped off the top-50 list in March. Substack has entered the ranking in 49th place, above The Scotsman in 50th."
Technology
Same Reality, Different Worlds: What DC and Silicon Valley Still Don’t See About Each Other
Anchor Change
"In DC, tech is a political force to be feared, managed, or regulated. In Silicon Valley, DC is mostly seen as a distant nuisance—something to deal with later, if at all."
How politically slanted are Large Language Models?
Model Slant
"We show Americans anonymized results from a variety of Large Language Models. We then ask them to assess the partisan slant of the models on 30 of the most salient issues in American politics in a head-to-head comparison."
White House
Trump's White House is the hottest right-wing media outlet
Axios
"The strategy reflects a sophisticated understanding of the current media environment — and takes the jolting step of incorporating it into the official communications of the United States."
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