Journalism

Several major publishers have been in talks to license content to the creator of ChatGPT, but agreement on the price and terms has been elusive.

In the latest escalation of the bitter struggle for control over Poland’s public media, the new government has announced that it is putting broadcasters TVP and Polskie Radio as well as the Polish Press Agency (PAP) into liquidation....

The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging that the companies’ artificial intelligence technology illegally copied millions of Times articles to train ChatGPT and other services to provide people with information – technology that now competes with the Times.

The Associated Press (AP) News Guild announced Sunday it has struck a deal with management on a three-year contract after 19 months of negotiations that culminated in a final end-of-year push....

At least 12 journalists in the United States were arrested or faced dubious charges in 2023, among them two journalists in Alabama who were charged with felonies for “publishing” and a reporter in Illinois who was cited for asking city employees “too many questions.” The criminalization of routine journalism this year...

Restricting the information that chatbots can access may be the quickest way to build useful AI-powered tools for journalism.

Journalists have been targeted for harassment, and some women are only allowed to speak to the press if they have a male chaperone.

France, Italy, Finland, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, and Sweden aim to undermine the first European law aimed at protecting freedom and independence of media in Europe. According to documents obtained by Disclose, in partnership with Investigate Europe and Follow the Money, these seven countries actively advocate for authorizing...

Looking back at Apple Daily, the newspaper that wasn't afraid to raise its voice against the Chinese government. The BBC published this after Apple Daily shut down in 2021.

Almost two-thirds of the $100 million Google must give to news outlets across the country each year will be distributed to print and digital media, with the remaining third being split between CBC/Radio-Canada and other private and public broadcasters.

Gessen, a queer Jew, is being punished by the German political machine for being too open about the nature of global authoritarianism....

IANS will now operate as a subsidiary of Adani’s AMG Media Networks....

Quartz co-founder Zach Seward is being tasked with establishing principles for how the Times will and won’t use generative AI.

The European Media Freedom Act seeks to safeguard the independence of newsrooms and foster media pluralism.

One of Chinese Communist party’s most outspoken critics faces prospect of life in prison

Newspaper sports sections are still struggling. The Athletic is pivoting. So some enterprising local-sports journalists are trying to take up the slack.

A new class action lawsuit filed this week in the U.S. District Court in D.C. accuses Google and parent company Alphabet of anticompetitive behavior in violation of U.S. antitrust law, the Sherman Act, and others, on behalf of news publishers. The case, filed by Arkansas-based publisher Helena World Chronicle, argues that Google...

The combined newsroom will have more than 70 people.

The new firm will begin operations by April next year, and will be led by Rupa Jha.

In 1999, a news assistant’s number crunching revealed that The Times had gotten ahead of itself.

The news sector alone has lost 2,681 jobs so far in 2023 — more than it did in all of 2022 or 2021.

Investing.com has been increasingly relying on AI to create its stories.

Shah, a former BBC journalist, is the government's preferred candidate to replace Richard Sharp.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio-Canada announced Monday that it plans to cut about 10 per cent of its workforce and axe some programming to cope with a $125 million budget shortfall.

The network should bring back Mehdi Hasan’s show and make clear that it embraces progressive criticism of President Biden and other Democratic leaders.