What should publishers be looking to change in 2023? Journalist, lecturer and trainer Adam Tinworth has thoughts. Some of them are going to be controversial. He joins host Charlotte Henry to, amongst other things, urge SEO practitioners to give up their keyword spreadsheets, journalists to get off Twitter and everyone to be a bit more […]
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A new year is always a good time for a reset. It is all too easy for any individual or industry as a whole to keep doing the same old thing. That is no different for publishing, with its ongoing combination of opportunities and struggles. What, then, should publishers be looking to change in 2023?
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Spotify has become the latest tech/media company to announce significant layoffs. The cuts, announced by CEO Daniel Ek on Monday, total 6% of the audio streamer’s workforce. In his note to staff, Ek said: Like many other leaders, I hoped to sustain the strong tailwinds from the pandemic and believed that our broad global business
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On this week’s episode of the podcast, I am joined by tech journalist Tom Merritt to discuss the effects AI will have across journalism and media following growing attention on tools like ChatGPT and DallE. As these tools develop, simple tasks could be automated and this could allow for better, more investigative, journalism. However, there
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Apple TV+ is presenting at the Television Critics Association 2023 winter convention today, giving details of upcoming shows. A few new trailers have also been released, giving fans a chance to see what is coming up on the streaming service. “Shrinking” “Shrinking” is from “Scrubs” and “Ted Lasso” producer Bill Lawrence. It stars Jason Segel
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Since its public launch a few weeks ago, ChatGPT has captured the imagination of many in the media. And scared plenty of others. What does an AI tool that can quickly write paragraphs of (mostly accurate) text mean for journalists, ad copywriters and others? Like the image-generating tool Dall-E, there is no doubt that it
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On this week’s “The Addition Podcast” I was joined by journalist and author Chris Stokel-Walker. We discussed and dissected everything that has gone on at Twitter since Elon Musk’s takeover. It’s been a pretty chaotic few months. We also looked at the growing level of scrutiny being directed at TikTok. The US is particularly nervous
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Andrew Bridgen, MP for North West Leicestershire, lost the Conservative Whip on Wednesday after posting a tweet that compared the widespread distribution of Covid vaccines to the Holocaust. The tweet has since been deleted. It linked to an article purporting to show damage caused by vaccines and said: As one consultant cardiologist said to me,
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One story sucked all the air out of the tech and media space in the final quarter of last year – Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter. Well, more accurately, it was multiple stories and a variety of incidents that all led back to the same person and the same company. There was a lot to
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There has been a shake-up of the top executives overseeing Apple’s services offering. Peter Stern, who was vice president of services, has left the company, Insider revealed on Monday. He was responsible for building the business operations of Apple TV+ as well as other services such as News+ and Fitness+. According to AppleInsider, Mr Stern
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