There is a clear moment in tech journalist Kara Swisher’s new memoir, “Burn Book” where she takes the leap into becoming an entrepreneur. “I realized, in short, that I was and would always be a great reporter and a less good employee,” she writes. “Which led me to the obvious conclusion that I wanted to […]
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Ever since it launched, there have been discussions about the “originals only” approach of Apple TV+. It has chosen to spend money on (expensive) quality, not quantity. “Killers of the Flower Moon” is a perfect example of this. However, it does mean the service offers a limited content library. That is all well and good
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For a while, it was tempting just to ignore GB News, the British right-wing TV channel. The production was bad, the audience was small. All-in-all, it wasn’t really making much of a difference to anything. Back when it launched in June 2021, there was the distinct possibility it would crash and burn very quickly. This
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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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