For some time, media and tech seemed to play along nicely. Outlets pivoted to platforms and those platforms were more than happy to scoop up and push out the free content. Today, it seems to be an all-out war. We’ve already had the NYT taking on OpenAI in an increasingly bitter legal battle. Now, 32 […]
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Mehdi Hasan revealed details of his own media company on Wednesday. Called Zeteo, meaning “to seek” in Greek, the company is based on Substack. It will publish a weekly streamed show by Hasan, as well as a podcast and newsletters, according to Jeremy Barr at The Washington Post, who exclusively broke the news. Zeteo will
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The BBC today said sorry to the family of the young person who complained about the behaviour of star presenter Huw Edwards. It follows a review of non-editorial complaints procedures conducted by Deloitte. Leigh Tavaziva, BBC Group Chief Operating Officer commented: Although our existing processes and systems are, on the whole, working effectively, this review
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“Full Swing” has been something of a hit on Netflix. As with “Drive to Survive” it goes behind the scenes of elite sport. In this case, it covers PGA golfers such as Rory McIlroy as they compete on the tour. The first season seemed to be pretty popular, and season two premieres on March 6.
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Scores have journalists have lost their jobs in the last few weeks. You may have noticed. As well as worrying about the future of digital media, there is a growing discussion about maintaining access to the stories laid-off hacks have published at now-defunct outlets. Many rely on stories from an old job when applying for
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“Bothsidesism” has become the criticism-du-jour of journalists and journalism. It pops up all over the place online. The phrase is used to condemn everything from reports around the Israel-Hamas war to the way Jon Stewart covers President Joe Biden’s age. Those who use it are arguing that journalists are offering a false equivalence i.e. Joe
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In the latest “Additional Conversations” segment on the Daily Tech news show, I discussed OpenAI’s new Sora text-to-video AI tool with Sarah Lane and Robb Dunewood. We looked into the impact OpenAI’s latest tool will have on film and TV. It was a really interesting chat, that also took in how content creators might use
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Apple today introduced a new ‘Sports’ app, aiming to put scores and stats front and centre. It is available for free in the US, UK and Canada. The product joins the suite of other native Apple media apps such as News, Music and TV. I’ve downloaded the app and it is really easy to set
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In the immediate hours since the death of Alexei Navalny was announced I was struck by the standard emotions such a story provokes – something between anger and sadness. The murder was a grotesque act conducted, one way or another, by a cowardly dictator. I took in various news reports and read about the horrendous
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The UK has just had two more by-elections on Thursday – votes in a constituency held when the MP can no longer keep the seat for reasons including bad behaviour, resignation over disagreements with party policy, ill health or… death. Labour overturned huge Conservative majorities in both Wellingborough (MP wrongdoing) and Kingswood (MP not agreeing
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