In Broad Daylight review – Hong Kong newsroom drama shines light on care home scandal Lawrence Kwan’s film makes some insightful points about journalism while letting in a few cliches too
Back UK creative sector or gamble on AI, Getty Images boss tells Sunak Image library CEO speaks out amid anger over harvesting of material for ‘training data’ for AI companies
Publish Nazi newsletters on your platform, Substack, and you will rightly be damned The online publishing service has been criticised for the way it has allowed extremist propaganda to flourish on the site
John Pilger obituary Campaigning journalist, film-maker, author and fervent critic of US and British foreign policy
How one of the world’s oldest newspapers is using AI to reinvent journalism Berrow’s Worcester Journal is one of several papers owned by the UK’s second biggest regional news publisher to hire ‘AI-assisted’ reporters
ChatGPT to summarize Politico and Business Insider articles in ‘first of its kind’ deal OpenAI to pay German media group Axel Springer to use its material, including stories behind paywalls
Arena Group fires CEO in wake of Sports Illustrated AI articles scandal Ross Levinsohn sacking was to ‘improve the operational efficiency and revenue of the company’, says board, two weeks after fake authors exposed
James Blunt: One Brit Wonder review – soldier-turned-singer’s brilliant Twitter game The witty singer’s superb comeback is a delight to behold in this entertaining fly-on-the-wall documentary
James Dyson loses libel claim against Daily Mirror publisher Inventor alleged that article criticising his championing of Brexit and move to Singapore was ‘vicious and vitriolic’
Dyson tells libel trial Daily Mirror article was a distressing ‘personal attack’ Inventor is suing publisher over ‘rogues’ gallery’ article that stated he championed Vote Leave before moving global HQ to Singapore
Mirror and Express owner to cut about 450 jobs – 10% of workforce Reach staff react with furious comments to CEO over plan to reduce costs by up to 6% in 2024
Microsoft accused of damaging Guardian’s reputation with AI-generated poll Publisher says poll speculating on cause of woman’s death that appeared next to Guardian article caused ‘significant reputational damage’
‘It’s a very fragile system’: a tense fight for free press at an Indigenous paper In the propulsive documentary Bad Press, a news outlet affiliated with the Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma is threatened by tribal government control
TechScape: Threads and Bluesky need to figure out what they want to be In this week’s newsletter: The Twitter alternatives are gaining ground, and it wouldn’t take much to steal X’s crown as a news-sharing service
‘The wolf at my throat’: Observer writer Christopher Wordsworth’s diaries reveal troubled life The critic never wrote the ‘Great Novel’. But his son, Saul, found clues to a crime in 60,000 words he left behind