Internal communication in the era of AI. 17 extra minutes a day on TV outside the home. Moravec is leaving ČT - PRnewser - March 10th
Anthropic set an example. NY Publishing has lost its soul. Yahoo is selling Engadget.
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Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes (Futurism)
The Condé Nast-owned Ars Technica has terminated senior AI reporter Benj Edwards following a controversy over his role in the publication and retraction of an article that included AI-fabricated quotes, Futurism has confirmed.
Telegraph declines to tell regulator how fake banker story got published (Press Gazette)
Newspaper ‘lost confidence’ in story after issue with images became clear.
Yahoo is selling Engadget to Static Media (The Verge)
The consolidation of iconic internet publishing brands continues, as Static Media takes over another site.
BBC says ‘irreversible’ trends mean it will not survive without major overhaul (The Guardian)
In opening response to charter review, corporation points to ‘mismatch’ between TV licence rules and viewing habits
Iranian TV and Social Media Project Defiant and Distorted View of the War (New York Times)
State media and online propagandists are striking a confident posture, despite heavy losses. Some of the content was generated by artificial intelligence.
It’s time for local news funders to pick winners, scale up, and force mergers, a new report argues (Nieman Lab)
“I don’t think we’re in a stage, any longer, of innovation. It really is a challenge of what are the scaling solutions.”
The Swiss want to continue paying the highest fee in the world for public media. It could have dropped to 200 Swiss francs (iRozhlas)
Swiss voters rejected a proposal for a significant reduction in the fee for public television and radio in a referendum on Sunday. According to preliminary results, 62 percent of voters opposed this proposal. This is reported by the Reuters agency and the BBC website.
The Day NY Publishing Lost Its Soul (HonestBroker)
How did we get here? And how do we get back?
Anthropic Walked the Walk (PR News)
The recent controversy over Anthropic’s decision not to cede to the Defense Department’s demands to remove its safety guards on Claude, its AI software, is an interesting look at a company whose purpose seems to go beyond just making money.
Why Internal Comms Is the Superpower for the AI Age (PRSay)
Here’s a sentence you don’t hear often: PR professionals are perfectly capable of leading internal communication — once they realize that internal and external communication have very different dynamics.
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McDonald’s CEO’s Big Arch taste test sparked a war of fast-food copycats (Business Insider)
Czech Republic (mostly in Czech)
All marketing services of Czech Radio will be provided by Dentsu Creative. (Médiář)
The agency from the multinational group Dentsu won the tender for the contract for the next four years.
17 minutes a day extra. That’s how much television viewing added by out-of-home measurement (Médiář)
Out-of-home measurement was officially included in the overall data for the first time in February. Out-of-home viewing accounted for 7% of total viewing, while for Czech Television during the Olympics, it was 13%.
Moravec is leaving ČT. I don’t want to disappoint with a shift towards pseudo-balance, he said (MaM)
At the end of Sunday’s Questions of Václav Moravec, the long-time host of political discussions announced that he is leaving ČT. He justified his departure by saying that he does not want to disappoint his viewers.
“You are mixing up your...” Okamura appeared after years in Václav Moravec’s Questions (MediaGuru)
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Kofola responds to current trends and introduces the original novelty Nulka (press release)
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