Coverage of the latest tech and media.
For months, I’d been working on an investigation on Muslim news platform 5Pillars for Jewish News. Regulator Impress has now found it guilty of breaching discrimination rules for a second time in 2024, and the story could be published. Muslim media organisation 5Pillars has again been found guilty by the regulator Impress of breaching the […]
Hate to say I told you so. Ok, I don’t. Tonight it has been revealed that Gary Lineker is leaving Match of the Day at the end of this season. He will leave the BBC completely at the end of the 2026 World Cup. I’ve said for a while that I thought this would be
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Back at the start of the season, I pondered (and hoped) that the introduction of YouTube into the WSL media mix might help it have a breakthrough moment like the WNBA enjoyed in its latest season. A new media deal shows that things are really looking forward. In brief, the new deal is with Sky
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It’s an incredible time of the year for US sports fans. The NFL is in full flow, the NBA is back, the NHL has begun and it’s the baseball World Series. The perception though is that broadcasters, particularly Fox who have the rights to the series, could do with the Yankees claiming a win tonight.
You can’t turn on a media podcast, read a media newsletter or attend a media event without everyone talking about AI. So… I’m about to do the same! Let’s get the throat clearing out of the way first. AI is clearly going to have a huge impact on news and the rest of the media.
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Former star reporter Oliva Nuzzi is officially out at New York magazine. Her fall from grace followed the revelation that she had a personal, digital, relationship with former subject and presidential wannabe RFK Jr. In an update to readers, the magazine said: Last month, the magazine enlisted the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine to review Olivia Nuzzi’s work
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A journalist on one of Reach’s national publications has spoken of the strain the growing demands of editors at Reach is putting on staff. These outlets tend to have small staffs but are being asked to publish evermore stories. Quantity, not quality, increasingly seems to be the name of the game.  Reach owns national brands
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The appetite for women’s football in the UK seems to be growing, thanks in no small part to the decision to move coverage of games not shown on linear TV to YouTube. Per The Guardian, numbers are up threefold from last season when fans had to use the extremely clunky FA Player to watch the
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It appears that the prospective sale of The Observer has not gone down well with current staffers. According to Press Gazette, there is the risk of industrial action from across The Guardian and Observer editorial staffs. The fascinating thing about this potential deal is it is so… analogue. According to Enders Analysis: “Observer revenues of £16.4m
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As it adjusts to being a weekly, not daily print outlet, London’s Evening Standard is reportedly set to use technology to revive one of its most famous writers. Deadline reported that late art critic Brian Sewell could be returning, thanks to AI. Which technology will be used had not been made public, nor had there
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