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Artificial intelligence
fromFast Company
1 day ago

AI search is creating a new incentive system for media

AI summaries are becoming the new proxy for relevance and authority, shifting attention from website traffic to cited information prominence.
Media industry
fromNieman Lab
4 days ago

Tech journalist Joanna Stern on leaving the Wall Street Journal and moving on to New Things

Joanna Stern left a long journalism career to create YouTube videos, combining humor, personality, and tech guidance while using subscriptions, sponsorships, and AI.
Media industry
fromDigiday
1 week ago

Media Briefing: BuzzFeed's $120M sale marks another step in the repricing of digital media scale

Platform-era publishing economics have unraveled, making referral traffic less reliable and increasing structural vulnerability for publishers like BuzzFeed.
fromBusiness Insider
1 week ago

Byron Allen wanted to own Paramount. He's buying BuzzFeed instead.

Go back in time to 2016: BuzzFeed, Vice Media, and Vox Media are supposed to be the future of media. Now back to present tense: Vice filed for Chapter 11, Vox is breaking up, and BuzzFeed just sold itself for a fraction of its former value. Meanwhile, many of the companies the digital upstarts were supposed to replace - big publishers and TV companies - are still here.
Media industry
Media industry
fromVariety
2 months ago

Arte President Bruno Patino Issues Industry-Wide Alert: AI Has Now Pushed Us Into a 'Relationship Economy,' the Only Way Forward Is 'Coalition'

Media sovereignty faces existential threats from conglomeration, AI-driven fragmentation, and loss of shared information commons, requiring urgent industry rethinking.
Media industry
fromWashington Monthly
4 months ago

Don't Let Independent Media Die

Concentrated political attacks, platform monopolies, AI content scraping, and oligarchic consolidation are eroding the economic and legal foundations of a free press in the United States.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months ago

In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?

Cultural snobbery, largely rejected today, may be necessary to uphold standards against social-media advertainment and AI-generated content.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
8 months ago

Media and Communications Psychology in the 21st Century

Media and communications psychology examines how evolving internet-driven media, including AI, shape perceptions, behaviors, and social dynamics through measurable effects research.
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