Need some summer reading? This week’s newsletter comes in the form of a book review. Not perhaps a suggestion for the sun lounger, but nevertheless one that every journalist should read. It’s called AI in the News Room and it was written by Martin Schori, former head of the AI Hub at Aftonbladet in Stockholm and now the co-founder of Hint Media. Martin is a journalist turned evangelist for AI in news and his advice is rooted in this newsroom experience. He provides tips for journalists, managers and AI specialists alike, but core to his guidance is the idea that…
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Berlin-based AI startup Beatsquares has raised $2 million (about €1.8 million) in seed funding to expand its platform for automatically repurposing editorial content across multiple digital channels. The round was co-led by IBB Ventures and XTR Capital, with participation from ddvg, Dutch media investor V-Ventures and a group of business…
“I want to start an uncomfortable conversation: Are there too many journalism events?” So said Marcela Kunova, the owner and operator of journalism.co.uk (JUK), last week. She continued: “I just looked at my agenda and JUK events calendar. It’s gone out of hand. Conferences, festivals, summits, workshops, talks, congresses, study…
Disney-owned 20th Television has struck a multi-year first-look agreement with Vox Media Studios, broadening a relationship that will give both companies room to develop scripted and unscripted projects built around Vox Media’s reporting and podcast brands. The deal is expected to feed into Disney Entertainment Television outlets including Disney+, with…
Why is the news industry so resistant to change? It’s almost impossible to shift focus, reassign resources, introduce new working practices, or change to a new CMS without a hue and cry. This week it has been the BBC’s turn to get it in the neck for what seemed to…
Prince Harry and six other high-profile claimants have lost their High Court case against Associated Newspapers Ltd, publisher of the Daily Mail, in a ruling that is likely to draw a line under the UK’s long-running phone-hacking litigation. Mr Justice Nicklin dismissed all claims against the publisher after an 11-week…
Sky has agreed a £1.6 billion takeover of ITV’s media and entertainment arm in a move that would combine one of Britain’s best-known commercial broadcasters with the pay-TV group owned by Comcast, creating what the companies say will be a stronger domestic rival to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and…
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OpenAI’s new web browser, ChatGPT Atlas, marks a significant evolution in how users interact with the internet, blending traditional browsing with advanced artificial intelligence to create a proactive, context-aware assistant embedded directly within the browsing experience. The browser is currently available for macOS, with Windows, iOS, and Android versions promised…
The way users phrase their questions to AI chatbots could affect the accuracy of the answers they receive, according to new research that adds nuance to the emerging science of prompt engineering. A study entitled Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy tested 50 questions written in…
Artificial intelligence assistants from some of the world’s biggest tech firms are struggling to tell the truth about the news, according to a wide-ranging new study by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC. The research, conducted with 22 public media organisations across 18 countries and in 14 languages,…
When Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022 and rebranded it as X, one of his earliest algorithmic priorities was to keep users on the platform. Posts containing external links — once central to Twitter’s role as a hub for news and commentary — were quietly downranked. For journalists and writers,…
In an era when newsrooms chase clicks with relentless publishing schedules, The Irish Times has acknowledged that it has adopted a publishing trend that few big organisations talk about publicly, but many practice behind the scenes: it deliberately started publishing fewer stories. The decision, taken two years ago, was rooted…
Millions of internet users worldwide experienced a sudden and widespread digital blackout on October 20, 2025, caused by a significant outage in Amazon Web Services (AWS), the dominant cloud infrastructure provider powering a substantial portion of the modern internet. This disruption affected a vast array of online services, including banking…
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