Sapna Maheshwari
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whatsupna? @nytimes business reporter covering TikTok and emerging media. pun lover, Tar Heel, from CT. tips to [email protected], DM for Signal, WhatsApp.
Manhattan, NY
Joined April 2009
the TikTok beat is a wild one! always looking to hear from current and former employees, government types, creators, fans of the app, educators and more. Signal me at username: Sapna.87 or email me sapna@nytimes.com or make a submission on our site
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The Times would like to hear from current and former employees, avid TikTok users, educators and parents.
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"The Journal-Constitution will stop publishing a print newspaper at the end of the year, Mr. Morse said, and divert all of its resources into the digital news operation. The company has published in print since 1868." via @katie_robertson on the @ajc
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The publication says the time is right to pour all of its resources into its online news operation and get its journalism “in front of the most people.”
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This is so horrific. I really hope AI companies are getting their act together on self-harm.
Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. My latest story on the psychological impacts of AI chatbots: https://t.co/f5kxxfJVCw
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This is such gutting and powerful reporting from @kashhill
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More people are turning to general-purpose chatbots for emotional support. At first, Adam Raine, 16, used ChatGPT for schoolwork, but then he started discussing plans to end his life.
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What decade is this
an advisor to Eric Adams gave a reporter a wad of cash stuffed inside an opened bag of Sour Cream & Onion potato chips this is a WILD story
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*Due to yesterday's WSJ article that detailed Joe Liemandt's involvement with Alpha Schools. Read it here: https://t.co/HffWkwsklI
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Alpha School, which has locations in Texas, Florida and California, is launching in New York in September.
Due to increasing attention, we are releasing one of our biggest profiles tomorrow and podcast next week. We were going to wait for back to school week, but now seems to be the time. You cannot miss these. Absolutely incredible in depth profile by @JeremySternLA on an
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I wrote about people who sold their likenesses to TikTok for AI-fueled advertisements. Marketers have been able to use their “avatars” to promote all sorts of products - and several regret the work. The folks I spoke with were paid as little as $500 for it
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Welcome to a new era of commercial work fueled by generative artificial intelligence.
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After 14 very, very happy years writing opinions on media at the Washington Post, I am taking the newspaper's buyout offer. In September, I will begin work at the New York Times covering media from Washington for the paper's Business section.
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New: UnitedHealth is trying to quiet its critics through legal threats against journalists, investors, doctors, filmmakers and others. The giant company is invoking the murder of its CEO to argue that intense criticism risks inciting future violence. 🎁🔗 https://t.co/xMyu3k1lrx
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The company has invoked the murder of an executive last year to complain about coverage in news outlets, on streaming services and on social media.
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I’m expanding my role at @nytimes as I dive deeper into the biggest stories on Wall Street and across corporate America. I’ll continue to contribute to @DealBook and forever be grateful for 5 years working for @andrewrsorkin and the opportunity to learn from the best in the biz
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NEWS: Linda Yaccarino departing X as CEO https://t.co/EfWvpImnJ8
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Linda Yaccarino, whom Elon Musk hired to run X in 2023, grappled with the challenges the company faced after Mr. Musk took over.
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I went to the largest conservative women's event in the US to hear how the right is bringing in more young women, traditionally a demographic that is solidly left. I heard about the pipeline from MAHA to MAGA, pandemic political conversions and a pitch for women to stay home
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Cannes scene report! 🇫🇷 https://t.co/aItnouiWQl with Cannes Lions veteran @sapna
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Michael Kassan, a ringmaster in the media industry, is going head to head at its top event with United Talent Agency, a company that has sued him.
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People are having very strange conversations with ChatGPT, in which they discover secret cabals or conspiracies or that we are in fact living in The Matrix. It sends these people into delusional spirals. Then ChatGPT tells them to email me about it. https://t.co/9IL5rbNy8v
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Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.
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🚨 Some personal news…thrilled to be (re)joining the @FT this summer as Fashion Editor after a wonderful run at @nytimes 🚨
The @FT has appointed Elizabeth Paton as fashion editor to oversee its extensive coverage of fashion and style: https://t.co/mMowUqph2F
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Livia Albeck-Ripka, an LA-based reporter for The New York Times, recounted being hit by a projectile just below her rib cage in this video: https://t.co/kuZTnTxD3U "It was a pretty intense, instant pain."
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Livia Albeck-Ripka, a New York Times reporter based in Los Angeles, describes how she was one of the reporters struck by crowd control munitions. Experts say that some aggressive measures used by the...
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SCOOP: Vanity Fair names Vogue’s Mark Guiducci as its next top editor (the editor in chief title is gone, replaced with ‘global editorial director’)
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Mr. Guiducci, 36, fills a role recently vacated by Radhika Jones, who led the magazine for seven years.
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