Media & Communication: Research Guide

A new book by the journalist Beth Gardiner argues that oil companies are upping production of the material as a safeguard against falling revenue.

The deal between All3Media and Banijay will bring together the companies behind the “Peaky Blinders” and the “Traitors” franchises.

Exclusive: Survey suggests journalists from minority ethnic backgrounds feel excluded from influential posts and seen as ‘diversity hires’Broadcast journalists from ethnic minorities are still locked out of top jobs and face a backlash after being perceived as “diversity hires”, according to a survey of UK television newsrooms.While there has been a sustained focus on racial diversity among Britain’s biggest broadcasters in recent years, the study concluded it had been “performed rather than embedded”, leaving minority ethnic journalists feeling excluded from influential posts and resented by colleagues. Continue reading...

Social media feeds have been flooded with fake battle scenes since start of Iran conflictElon Musk’s X will ban users from making money on the platform if they repeatedly post unlabelled AI-generated war videos, after social media feeds were flooded with fake battle scenes from the Iran conflict.The social media platform, which has about half a billion monthly active users, will suspend people from earning revenue from posts for 90 days if they put up AI-generated videos of an armed conflict without adding a disclosure that it was made with AI. A second infraction wouldlead to a permanent ban, it said on Tuesday night, after the first days of the conflict in Iran were marked by a torrent o..

Lawsuit is first wrongful death case brought against Google over flagship AI product after death of Jonathan GavalasSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxLast August, Jonathan Gavalas became entirely consumed with his Google Gemini chatbot. The 36-year-old Florida resident had started casually using the artificial intelligence tool earlier that month to help with writing and shopping. Then Google introduced its Gemini Live AI assistant, which included voice-based chats that had the capability to detect people’s emotions and respond in a more human-like way.“Holy shit, this is kind of creepy,” Gavalas told the chatbot the night the feature debuted,..

The morning show host’s contract extension is a victory for the Bari Weiss-led network news divisionSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxCBS News has signed a new deal with Gayle King after intense speculation about the future of the CBS Mornings co-host’s role at the network.King has been the centerpiece of the network’s morning show for years now, and her departure would have been a huge blow to the Bari Weiss-led network news division, which also recently lost another marquee talent with the departure of 60 Minutes correspondent Anderson Cooper. Continue reading...

Chief executive Robert Thomson says he often speaks to both OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Meta’s Mark ZuckerbergNews Corp’s global chief executive has described news organisations as a valuable “input” for artificial intelligence, as the media empire signs an AI content licensing deal with Meta worth up to US$50m (A$71m) a year.In an upbeat presentation, the chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s company, Robert Thomson, said the “reliable” breaking news and information in publications like the Australian, the Times of London and Dow Jones was “hard to beat” as an “input” for AI. Continue reading...

Radio and TV comedy writer who co-created the award-winning BBC space sitcom Red DwarfThe writer Rob Grant, who has died suddenly aged 70, created the TV space sitcom Red Dwarf with his old school friend Doug Naylor. The BBC series, starting in 1988, won a cult following with its story of a slobbish, low-ranking technician, Dave Lister, marooned on the rusting mining ship Red Dwarf three million years in the future, the universe’s last surviving human, following a radiation leak.Craig Charles starred as Lister, whose only company is a hologram of his former bunkmate, the jobsworth Arnold Rimmer (played by Chris Barrie), the cool Cat (Danny John-Jules), a vain descendant of a pregnant pet L..

From hefty literary magazines to thriving newspaper kiosks and book sales, the French publishing industry refuses to let printed matter dieIt took me nine months of 20-hours-a-week French language instruction, and the mycelial network of a year spent in Strasbourg, to feel courageous enough to walk into a bookshop to buy something more challenging than Le Petit Prince. I was immediately humbled: there was an entire new universe, just barely linguistically accessible, and I had no idea who was who, who was writing what or what might interest me.A year later, I came back to France for graduate school after an 11-month interlude working for an NGO in southern Chad, still feeling like an intelle..

As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon ValleyOpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, is on track to lose $14bn this year. Its market share is collapsing, and its own CEO, Sam Altman, has admitted it “screwed up” an element of the product. All it takes to accelerate that decline is 10 seconds of your time.A grassroots boycott called QuitGPT has been spreading across the US and beyond, asking people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions. More than a million people have answered the call. Mark Ruffalo and Katy Perry have thrown their weight behind it. It is one of the most significant consumer boycott..

In book Dream Facades, Jack Balderrama Morley examines houses from shows including Keeping Up with the Kardashians to see what we can learnHouses have always been at the center of reality TV. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous set the domestic stage in the 1980s with its quasi-documentary look into the real lives of the ultra-wealthy. It walked so MTV Cribs could run, and in September 2000, Cribs became what critic Sam Jacob called “the most popular architectural media ever”. Known for its unhinged (and sometimes fake) house tours by the celebrity owners themselves, the hit show’s Ozzy Osbourne episode spun off in 2002 into The Osbournes, which Kris Jenner used for the basis of her pitc..

From Marty Supreme to One Battle After Another, this awards run has been populated by a harder-to-love group of spiky charactersBroadly speaking, the best way to get an acting Oscar is to play someone lovable, or someone lovably hateable. Not every acting winner fits that binary, of course, but the history of all four categories is filled with fascinatingly bad behavior (Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, Louise Fletcher in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, JK Simmons in Whiplash) as well as expressions of sheer delight at the combination of actor and lovable character (Diane Keaton in Annie Hall, Tom Hanks in Forrest Gump, Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love). This year’s cr..

Australian health authorities have been encouraging ‘no hat no play’ for 100 years.

Social media platforms are marketing machines designed to extract value from experience itself.

CNN Stellar Migration

2026 밀라노 코르티나 동계올림픽이 2월22일(현지 시각) 조용히 막을 내렸다. 저조한 열기가 경기력에서 비롯한 것은 아니다. 스노보드 여자 하프파이프 부문에서 최가온이 깜짝 금메달을 따고 쇼트…

A 신문 기사와 관련해 사건이 접수됐다. 조정심리를 진행하려고 출석요구서를 발송했으나 송달불능으로 반송되고 말았다. 알고 보니 A 신문 주소지에는 초대형 백화점은 물론, 초고층 오피스타워가 들…

온난화를 방지하기 위해 CO2 배출량을 제한하는 국제협약을 체결하려는 움직임이 구체화되고 있어 우리나라도 적극 대처해야 한다. (1990년 10월)에너지와 환경의 문제를 별개로 다룰 수 없다. 에너…

이른 봄바람이 불던 2월 어느 날, 제주 동쪽 마을의 항구를 걷다 한 아이를 만났습니다. 선착장 주변에서 낚싯대를 들고 서 있던 아이는 집에 있으면 스마트폰만 하게 될 것 같아 바다로 나왔다고 했습니…

The numeraio Pasquale De Stefano’s handmade market signs are a dying breed of everyday beauty in a baroque city.

Questions about the future of the attack on Iran, and other reader perspectives. Also: Drug ads as a resource for patients.

I thought my art had to be protected from the real world, but that ended up being unrealistic.

Nick Ut, the freelancer long credited for the award-winning photo from the Vietnam War, says a Netflix documentary questioning his work has defamed him.

The mentalist Oz Pearlman is this year’s speaker. “Hopefully, it will be something very Special,” the president wrote on Truth Social.

Chair of merged production company says move creates a ‘world-class’ offering across live events and programmingThe European maker of television shows ranging from Peaky Blinders to Big Brother is to merge with the UK super-indie behind hits including The Traitors to create a €4.4bn (£3.8bn) global TV production giant.Paris-headquartered Banijay Group, which last year considered making a takeover offer for ITV’s studio operation, has struck a deal to merge its TV production business with All3Media, which is owned by RedBird IMI. Continue reading...