With the advent of AI in media – generative AI in particular – the journalism industry is at the beginning of a new wave of digital transformation with implications for everything from content to brand, ethics, business and labour...
As more news organisations look to the reader revenue route to sustain their digital operations, there is a clear challenge. Acquiring digital subscribers is good, but hanging onto paying readers will determine the success of the business.The common approach...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making its way into various industries, and journalism is no exception. Die Presse, a traditional newspaper founded in 1848, is experimenting with AI to optimize its operations and stay ahead in the digital world....
This article provides empirical evidence of ‘defensive mediatization strategies’ in the field of sport. These are strategies used by actors individually and collectively to control and sometimes avoid media publicity—for example, by refusing requests for media interviews, or in...
The lawsuit began like so many others: A man named Roberto Mata sued the airline Avianca, saying he was injured when a metal serving cart struck his knee during a flight to Kennedy International Airport in New York.When Avianca...
Reach is testing an AI-powered website that brings together stories from all of its national and regional newsbrands in one place for the first time.Reach has long shared content between its sister titles when editors think it will be...
On 4 September 1909, Daily Chronicle journalist Philip Gibbs checked himself into an out-of-the-way hotel in Copenhagen to write what would be the most important article of his career so far. He was one of many journalists from all over...
Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT exploded onto the scene at the end of 2022, there has been no shortage of voices calling artificial intelligence and Generative AI specifically a game-changing technology.The news media industry in particular is wrestling with some...
More than 4 million, to be precise, according to the database Podcast Index. In the past three days alone, nearly 103,000 individual podcast episodes were published online, a deluge of audio content so voluminous that listeners need never run out...
Tech innovations have been disrupting the media industry since the turn of this century. And if the advent of the internet – and later, social media – is anything to go by, AI poses a real threat to how...
