Here's the Roundup for the Week Ending March 21
Happy Friday to all who celebrate.
In this week's edition of stories we didn't write up for one reason or another, we see a couple of stories from Poynter reminding us we can't always go all in on new tech and that politicizing weather and science could actually kill people.
Here's the stuff:
When viewers tune into their local television station for the weather report, chances are that the forecast they see was made possible by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Through agencies like the National Hurricane Center and the Weather Prediction Center, NOAA collects observational data, runs models, develops forecasts and issues warnings - information that broadcast meteorologists use to create weather forecasts Those agencies are currently being targeted for cuts by billionaire Elon Musk's Department of Governmental Efficiency. Click here for the story.
Retired KDKA reporter Jon Delano received a special honor from Pittsburgh City Council members on Tuesday. Click here for more.
An Italian newspaper launched a generative AI experiment. It's not going well. Click here to read about it.
For 12 years, Kris Betts was behind the news desk and in front of the action every chance she could get during natural disaster events and more as an Emmy-award winning journalist whose career has stretched from Texas to New York. But for the last three years, she has taken that passion for storytelling and transitioned it into doing it through a different medium in her own interior design business. Here's the story.
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