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Pakistani newspaper Dawn, the country's largest English daily, published an AI-generated chatbot response in a newspaper report. The online version carries an editor’s note admitting it was "edited using AI, which is in violation of our current AI policy" www.financialexpress.com/trending/cha...
‘ChatGPT has started making newspapers’: Pakistan’s Dawn brutally trolled for AI response in news report
Dawn newspaper ChatGPT: While one person declared that “ChatGPT has started making newspapers”, another questioned Pakistani newspaper Dawn’s “ethics” after it was “caught using AI”. “Dawn really…
www.financialexpress.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
News publishers win first round of copyright claim against Cohere

A judge has rejected Cohere’s motion to dismiss, saying publishers “adequately alleged” that outputs from the AI provider were “quantitatively and qualitatively similar” to their content
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News publishers win first round of copyright claim against AI start-up Cohere
News publishers have celebrated a victory in the first stage of their copyright lawsuit against Canadian AI start-up Cohere.
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November 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
NEW: Redbird withdraws £500m Telegraph bid after six months

Redbird said it will "work hard to help secure a solution which is in the best interests of employees and readers"
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Redbird withdraws £500m Telegraph bid after six months
Redbird Capital Partners has dropped its £500m bid to take control of The Telegraph six months saying it had struck a deal to do so.
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November 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Footballco is targeting $100m (about £76m) in revenue for the World Cup year in 2026 as affiliates and sponsored content on Youtube are currently “huge revenue growth drivers” pressgazette.co.uk/media_busine...
Footballco gears up for World Cup in 2026 with Youtube and affiliate revenue drivers
Footballco is targeting $100m (about £76m) in revenue for the World Cup in 2026 as affiliates and sponsored content on Youtube see growth.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
New York Attorney General Letitia James joined a Condé Nast union rally on Wednesday, calling on the company to reinstate four staffers who were fired after a confrontation with the company's HR head www.businessinsider.com/ny-ag-letiti...
NY AG Letitia James rallies for fired Condé Nast workers, telling the company, 'I'll see you in court'
NY Attorney General Letitia James joined a Condé Nast union rally, protesting recent firings that followed a staff confrontation with HR.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:57 AM
BBC apologises but doesn't offer compensation to Trump over Panorama edit

Broadcaster 'strongly disagrees' Trump has basis for defamation claim pressgazette.co.uk/news/bbc-apo...
BBC apologises but doesn't offer compensation to Trump over Panorama edit
BBC "strongly disagrees" Trump has grounds for a defamation claim.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Richard Tice wins British Steel IPSO complaints against Reach titles pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/new...
Richard Tice wins British Steel IPSO complaints against Reach titles
Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has won complaints to press regulator IPSO about stories in the Sunday People and Daily Record.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Michael Peralta returns to Future as chief revenue officer pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/med...
Michael Peralta returns to Future as chief revenue officer
Former Future plc chief revenue officer Michael Peralta is returning to the publisher in the same role in December.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Youtube dominance is mirroring what Google and Facebook did to publishers

Youtube running Netflix's playbook and content companies are falling for it again, Reed Showalter writes

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Youtube dominance is mirroring what Google and Facebook did to publishers
Youtube running Netflix's playbook and content companies are falling for it again.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
"Country Life will be the last magazine on the last newsstand. It is the great print triumph"

Interview with EiC Mark Hedges as he marks 1,000 issues. He shares how he has diversified the magazine, and the frustrations he has with corporate ownership

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Country Life editor Mark Hedges crosses 1,000 issues: We're 'the great print triumph'
Interview with Country Life editor-in-chief Mark Hedges as he marks 1,000th issue at the helm with David Beckham guest edit.
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November 13, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Keyword search dying, video search is future says Sky News boss

And ITN CEO Rachel Corp says: "A weakened BBC is not good for anybody and not good for the world"

Report from broadcaster panel at Lisbon Web Summit

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Keyword search dying, video search is future says Sky News boss
Sky News announced a bid to make its video content more discoverable on AI platforms at Web Summit in Lisbon on stage with ITN and Euronews.
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November 13, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The European Commission is reportedly preparing to investigate Google over claims it demoted news publishers carrying “third party” promotional content such as sponsored articles www.ft.com/content/644e...
EU readies new investigation into Google over news publisher rankings
Brussels set to announce fresh probe under Digital Markets Act despite Trump threats on tariffs
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November 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The BBC is reportedly prepared to formally apologise to Donald Trump. The deadline for his billion-dollar legal threat, over its editing of one of his speeches, is Friday www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...
BBC ‘prepared to apologise’ to Trump after billion-dollar legal threat
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November 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Talk's Mike Graham "will not return" to the station after what parent company News UK described as an "abhorrent and vile" post appeared on his Facebook page. News UK said he "reneged on several opportunities to cooperate" with their investigation. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Mike Graham is sacked from Talk breakfast show after racist post
The journalist, 65, was suspended from his show Morning Glory soon after post was published, but after allegedly refusing to cooperate with a company investigation, he has now been sacked.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:24 PM
More than 25 jobs have reportedly been cut across business and B2B publications owned by Crain Communications pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/j...
2025 journalism job cuts tracked: 150 journalists laid off at NBC News
Press Gazette tracks job cuts in the UK and US journalism industries throughout 2025 in this up-to-date list.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Kamal Ahmed is leaving The Telegraph to join business publisher Fortune as executive editorial director for UK and Europe

Ahmed stopped co-hosting The Telegraph's daily news podcast The Daily T this summer
Kamal Ahmed joins Fortune as editorial director for UK and Europe
Kamal Ahmed is leaving The Telegraph to join business publisher Fortune as executive editorial director for UK and Europe.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Press Recognition Panel chair writes: The public haven’t been fooled: it’s time to stop pretending Leveson lessons were learned pressgazette.co.uk/comment-anal...
The public haven’t been fooled: it’s time to stop pretending Leveson lessons were learned
Press Recognition Panel chair says new research shows people remain sceptical of media standards.
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November 12, 2025 at 12:18 PM
CNN has added a swipeable short-form video feed to its app homepage www.theverge.com/news/816638/...
CNN’s app is adding a ‘Shorts’ feed for bite-size videos
CNN tries TikTok.
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November 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
The ten biggest news sites in the US by audience reach saw traffic decline year on year in October pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
Top 50 news websites in the US in October: Ten biggest sites see YoY traffic decline
Press Gazette lists the top 50 biggest websites for news in the US. Monthly updated top 50 listing based on data from Similarweb.
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November 12, 2025 at 10:23 AM
A private investigator involved in the legal case between high profile claimants, including Prince Harry, and Associated Newspapers has told the High Court that his signature on an earlier witness statement was a "forgery" www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Private investigator in Mail legal claim says statement was a ‘forgery’, court told
Associated Newspapers Limited (ANL) is accused by the group of carrying out or commissioning unlawful activities
www.independent.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Bari Weiss is "turning heads" as she reportedly pushes for ABC News correspondent Matt Gutman to anchor the CBS Evening News - a "surprising" choice given Gutman's role of chief national correspondent without "formal anchoring experience" nypost.com/2025/11/11/m...
Bari Weiss eyes ABC’s Matt Gutman as surprise contender for ‘CBS Evening News’ chair: report
Weiss makes quiet but determined push to recruit ABC News correspondent Matt Gutman for the “CBS Evening News” anchor chair, according to a report.
nypost.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Microsoft is tightening its ad standards, making Microsoft Clarity (its free behavioural analytics tool) mandatory for all third-party publishers to stay eligible for paid impressions and clicks in Microsoft Advertising searchengineland.com/microsoft-ma...
Microsoft makes Clarity mandatory for publishers
Microsoft now requires third-party publishers to use Clarity, ensuring transparent, brand-safe ad placements and filtering noncompliant traffic.
searchengineland.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Reform UK has said it will no longer co-operate with a BBC documentary about the party, due to air in January, following controversy over the Trump Panorama edits www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK pulls out of BBC film over Trump edit row
The party is withdrawing its co-operation from a documentary which was due to air in January.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 9:26 AM
US political news site The Hill led growth in October among the top 50 English-language news sites in the world pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...
Top 50 English-language news sites in the world: The Hill leads growth in October
Press Gazette lists the top 50 most popular news websites in the world. Monthly updated top 50 listing based on data provided by SimilarWeb.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A Kansas county will pay over $3m and apologise for a 2023 raid on local newspaper Marion County Record. Authorities had said the search was to uncover how the paper obtained a government document www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
Kansas County Agrees to Pay $3 Million Over Police Raid of Newspaper
The search of The Marion County Record’s office in 2023 touched off a national conversation about press freedom.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:15 AM