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1 week ago | 
pressgazette.co.uk | Bron Maher
An academic has warned that the UK is at risk of evolving “into a propaganda regime” following interviews with dozens of journalists about the state of Freedom of Information (FOI) laws. Jingrong Tong, a senior lecturer in Media and Information Studies at the University of Sheffield, said decreased compliance with FOI rules had resulted in “growing government secrecy”. Tong interviewed 31 journalists from around the UK for the study, which was published in the academic journal Journalism Practice.
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2 weeks ago | 
pressgazette.co.uk | Bron Maher
Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal UK management have halted voluntary recognition talks with the National Union of Journalists to instead recognise News Union, the union funded by its sister company News UK. Managers told staff on Tuesday afternoon it was doing this because the NUJ “would only represent a small subset of our colleagues”, whereas News Union “are able to represent all eligible Dow Jones International employees, not just those in the Newsroom”.
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2 weeks ago | 
pressgazette.co.uk | Bron Maher
The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has rejected a Home Office bid to impose total secrecy around its efforts to gain access to Apple users’ data. Apple is appealing to the IPT over a government technical capability notice (TCN) which would require it to provide the Home Office with access to its customers’ most highly-encrypted data.
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2 weeks ago | 
pressgazette.co.uk | Bron Maher
ITN recorded its lowest profit in a decade in 2024 as its non-news revenue dropped 41% year on year. The broadcaster, which produces daily news programmes for ITV, Channel 4 and 5, saw pre-tax profit nearly halve year on year from £1.5m in 2023 to £800,000 in 2024. Overall revenue at the broadcaster dipped £5m (or 3%) year-on-year to £150.7m according to accounts newly filed at Companies House.
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2 weeks ago | 
pressgazette.co.uk | Bron Maher
Daily Mail and New Scientist publisher DMGT has signed a deal to license its journalism for development for film, television and streaming. The company said in a release that its agreement with Storied Media Group aimed “to capitalise on the growing demand for deeply researched journalism in the film and TV industry”.
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2 weeks ago | 
pressgazette.co.uk | Bron Maher
US print circulation certifier the Alliance for Audited Media is updating how it collects publisher digital circulation data to give a more accurate picture of “the health of the industry” to the market. The auditor’s chief executive, Richard Murphy, told Press Gazette that at present many publishers do not report key figures such as digital subscriptions at all.
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3 weeks ago | 
pressgazette.co.uk | Bron Maher
The acting director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has warned that news publishers “have lost our way, as an industry, with our audience”. Mitali Mukherjee told the Society of Editors Media Freedom conference last week that a loss of trust in the news industry was connected to news avoidance and a lack of engagement from young people.
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3 weeks ago | 
pressgazette.co.uk | Bron Maher
The Independent’s UK editor has said stories on its new AI-written summarisation service, Bulletin, often outperform the human-written content on which they are based. The service, which uses Google’s Gemini to rewrite regular Independent stories into five to ten bullet points, officially launched on Wednesday following a soft launch over recent weeks. Independent UK editor Chloe Hubbard told an audience at Advertising Week in London that the new product “works commercially”.
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3 weeks ago | 
pressgazette.co.uk | Bron Maher
Regional publishing giant Newsquest now employs 36 “AI-assisted” reporters across its titles, its editorial development director has said. Toby Granville revealed the figure, up from seven at the end of 2023, while speaking at the Society of Editors Media Freedom conference in London. The reporters use an AI-powered CMS (see below) to rewrite press releases into stories, and are tasked with checking the facts and quotes are correct in the output.
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3 weeks ago | 
tvnewscheck.com | Bron Maher
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