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A very good newsletter and a link to a terrific essay by David Caswell
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The latest edition of our roundup on journalism features a new essay on AI by David Caswell and pieces on video podcasts, brand safety and investigative journalism in India
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Journalism Today. 15 Oct 2025
Research | Reporting | Fellowships | Leadership 🗞️ Our top story News in the AI era. We are often told that AI will utterly transform our lives and societies.
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The best exceptions to this are at the BBC - WATO and PM. Their presenters are not egotistical and utterly focused on finding answers for eager listeners. Have to say LBC and Times Radio can be good, too. What's wrong with TV?
How about considering the failure of orthodox politics? (And media) Misinformation or conspiracy theories are therapy for those burnt by reality. The real world delivered by liberal elites is really shit for many people.
That's why I go and make coffee when the Today programme interviews a politician and why I fast forward through interviews when I play back a show like @channel4news.bsky.social The interviews are the least relevant and informative parts of the programme.
I'm a slow learner. As someone who has produced a million broadcast interviews I now realise why they don't work. I now tune out when they happen in that usual set piece style because they exclude me. It's just a ritual exchange. Unlike podcasts where the inclusion of the audience is implied.
Kerry Marshall at the @royalacademyarts.bsky.social is hugely enjoyable
This is an interesting study of how official or trade journalism publications have discussed AI and journalism: "Little focus is given to the audiences in this discussion, potentially missing the opportunity to develop strategies for responsible innovation" www.tandfonline.com/eprint/PINGA...
ChatBots as Artificial Intermediaries? Adaptation to Artificial Intelligence in Newsrooms
Journalists have long claimed authority regarding the distribution of valid knowledge and hence, have discursively placed themselves in an intermediary role between audiences and the information th...
www.tandfonline.com
You're assuming that academic co-authorship is always a valid reflection of mutual contribution? 🤔
This is a good summary of the debate at the IMEdD conference on 'navigating the age of doubt'. I welcomed the age of doubt 😀
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"Navigating the Age of Doubt": Journalists Debate Survival, Trust and the Future of their Mission - iMEdD Lab
The opening panel of the iMEdD International Journalism Forum 2025 highlighted a profession in flux, balancing threats and opportunities, technology and human values, skepticism and public service.
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Professional Journalism Workshop: "Leading Journalism in the Age of AI: Executive Insights and Strategy”, a course for journalists and media people at @unisg.ch this November with @charliebeckett.bsky.social, @alviani.bsky.social and me. All info: mcm.unisg.ch/en/weiterbil...
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Ping me if interested!
Polite question. Why, of all artistic genres, do movie makers insist on ruining the opening of their product with endless credits and production logos? What is the point? It doesn't build anticipation or improve brand recognition. New broadcasters (YT) don't do it. So why?
The weird thing is that it portrays extreme politics as niche and quaint when, in the US, they are now mainstream
It's as good as they say. Tip: get close seats to a big screen. The close ups are immense. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...
One Battle After Another review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrillingly helter-skelter counterculture caper
Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reaction
www.theguardian.com
Come work with us 🚨
We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.
Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science.
Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions.
DL 🗓️ November 1
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We are looking for a #postdoc in our @aimediademlab.bsky.social lab.
Profile: Comm sci / poli sci/ computational social science.
Great team, timely topocs, fabulous city, good conditions.
DL 🗓️ November 1
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Vacancy — Postdoctoral researcher Communication Science at AI, Media & Democracy Lab
Do you want to be part of the AI, Media & Democracy Lab? We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in communication science.
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A good example of constructive journalism from Helen Davidson: reporting on a disaster aftermath in a serious but positive way that stresses resilience alongside grief www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Gym bros, monks, retirees: thousands descend on Taiwan town to clean up after devastating flood
Trains packed with volunteers arrive at tourist town of Guangfu, days after typhoon sent millions of tonnes of mud and water crashing through its streets
www.theguardian.com
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Are you a newsroom leader seeking a practical, in-person learning experience? Apply for one of our newsroom leadership courses.
We have upcoming courses in October and November.
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We have upcoming courses in October and November.
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Yes it's horrific and I've no idea how you'd stop it. Except close down OpenAI
I'm struggling to find any decent analysis of Hamas and its response to the Trump proposal. Mainstream media seems to treat them as an homogenous but almost mythical entity. Anyone seen anything good?
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I spent some time with OpenAI's new AI video app Sora. Not just slop but ragebait, fake crimes and women splattered with white goo. The implications of all of this are horrifying.
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Last week at the International Journalism Forum in Athens, Anna Bucks (@economist.com), Mari Luz Peinado (@elpais.com), and Jason Koebler (@404media.co) discussed how they bring readers directly to their platforms.
Here’s some of what they’ve tried and learned: www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-...
Here’s some of what they’ve tried and learned: www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/the-...
“The AI-ification of email” keeps 404 Media’s Jason Koebler up at night
For now, though, email newsletters have "completely changed" 404's business "almost literally overnight."
www.niemanlab.org
I wrote a tiny blog based on a bit of what I said at the Athens iMEdD International Journalism Forum last week. Links in the piece to a recording of the whole session 'Navigating the age of doubt' and the rest of the conference blogs.lse.ac.uk/polis/2025/0...
It's also exemplary at showing their workings. This is not just good transparency around AI, it's also an excellent bit of media literacy that helps the public understand how hard quality journalism can be, and why you need to have resources to invest in it www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Reading the post-riot posts: how we traced far-right radicalisation across 51,000 Facebook messages
Tracing profiles of those charged with online offences in summer 2024 helped us map a thriving social ecosystem trading far-right sentiment and political disillusionment
www.theguardian.com
This Guardian investigation into UK online far-right networks is a brilliant example of how to combine human journalism with LLM AI tools for long-term, in-depth, large-scale data analysis. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Inside the everyday Facebook networks where far-right ideas grow
The Guardian spent a year studying an online community trading in anti-immigration sentiment and misinformation. Experts say such spaces can play a role in radicalisation
www.theguardian.com
This is a fascinating journalism conference in Athens. Superbly organised and with a distinct focus on practice and mission-driven journalism. It is somewhat eccentric, but I like that. Amazing venue, too www.imedd.org/events/imedd...
iMEdD International Journalism Forum 2025 - iMEdD
We welcome ideas highlighting practical skill-building, emerging technologies, and a diversity of voices in journalism.
www.imedd.org
Terrific debate in Athens tonight about how we navigate the treacherous media waters: insights from across the globe #imedd forum.imedd.org/en/journalis...
