✎ Deadline 美國線上雜誌《Deadline》｜20251015
Major BBC Study Finds Viewers Have Doubts About Broadcaster’s Independence From Government
BBC重大研究發現觀眾對該廣播公司是否獨立於政府存疑
The BBC’s independence matters to viewers, with 91% saying it was “important” to them. Only 5% of respondents said it was “unimportant.”
✎ The Hollywood Reporter 美國雜誌《好萊塢報導》｜20251015
YouTube Just Ate TV. It’s Only Getting Started
YouTube 吞噬了電視 而這才剛開始
During the past 20 years, the Google-owned YouTube has slowly — then rapidly — become a dominant force in media, the hub for a wide array of genres, from talk and comedy to food and unscripted fare. But the bigger prize for the video platform would be to take over the other hours people are spending on their TV sets, and there are signs that YouTube is close to a breakthrough there.
✎ Digiday 美國數位媒體《數位日報》｜20251003
Inside The Economist’s plan to grow revenues in a post-search, AI-driven future
《經濟學人》在後搜尋時代、人工智慧驅動的未來如何增加收入
Unlike many publishers securing AI licensing deals, The Economist is going against the grain – keeping its journalism off-limits and actively blocking AI bots from scraping its content, via its CDN vendor Cloudflare. “We’re building our business for an environment where we don’t expect to get any traffic back from those AI platforms. Fundamentally, their business models and their strategies are aligned to being end-user destinations in their own right and not providing those click-throughs,” said Bradley-Jones.
✎ Pew Research Center 美國皮尤研究中心｜20251001
Americans have mixed feelings about AI summaries in search results
美國人對搜尋結果中的人工智慧摘要持有不同看法
About half of Americans who have come across AI summaries (53%) have at least some trust in the information from those summaries. But only 6% say they trust it a lot.
✎ The Guardian 英國《衛報》｜20250923
ESPN has discarded brilliant journalism for squirts of memebrain swill
ESPN 放棄精彩的新聞報導，轉而迎合毫無深度的迷因腦殘垃圾內容
Influencer creep symbolizes a broader rot at the heart of the broadcaster as it attempts to stop interrogating the very sports it covers
✎ The Guardian 英國《衛報》｜20250914
How the US right wing is taking over news media and choking press freedom
美國右翼如何控制新聞媒體並扼殺新聞自由
Takeover of broadcast companies by Donald Trump’s allies is harbinger of media capitulation to authoritarian leanings
✎ Adweek 美國《廣告周刊》｜20250904
The New York Times Is Shutting Down Its Audio App
紐約時報將關閉其獨立的音訊應用程式
The standalone product will shutter in October as the publisher increases audio and video in its flagship News app
✎ The Guardian 英國《衛報》｜20250901
Science research gets more engagement on Bluesky than X, study finds
研究報告顯示：科學研究在Bluesky上的互動程度比在X平台上更多
Bluesky posts referencing scholarly articles ‘find substantially higher levels of interaction’ than on Elon Musk’s platform
✎ Press Gazette 英國《新聞公報》｜20250822
Reach to ‘radically reorganise’ editorial structure with one live news team
英國Reach將「徹底重組」編輯架構 設立即時新聞團隊
Largest UK commercial news publisher to produce less “text-only” content under new plans.
✎ Columbia Journalism Review 美國《哥倫比亞新聞評論》｜20250818
Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza
捍衛加薩新聞自由的緊急建議
We, as a profession, need to adapt to these times or we aren’t going to exist as a profession. Direct action—a flotilla, a march, a convoy, or just trying to breach the border—these are all useful ideas, but journalists, as a whole, don’t normally think this way. It is seen as making yourself part of the story or as some stunt. But we are living in extreme times now, and we have to think outside the box. For this profession to survive in a real or meaningful way, we are going to have to shift our mindset as journalists.