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AI: Powering newsrooms of the future?
Season 2 Episode 30
Can traditional journalism survive when ChatGPT is able to produce copy in a matter of seconds?
In Media Confidential’s third episode in a series expl…
1 year, 6 months ago
Q&A: The Daily Mail's sidebar of shame
Season 2 Episode 29
What do you do if a big story breaks on Christmas Day and there's a skeleton crew running the newsroom?
That's just one of the seasonal questions put …
1 year, 6 months ago
The Murdoch Succession and the limits of AI
Season 2 Episode 28
In the second episode on our series focusing on AI's impact on the media industry, Alan and Lionel talk to the executive chairman of Sky News, David …
1 year, 6 months ago
Q&A: What's REALLY going on at the Observer?
Season 2 Episode 27
Office streakers, whiskey before lunchtime, and untimely deaths: with Christmas party season almost upon us,
Alan and Lionel get nostalgic for the ol…
1 year, 6 months ago
AI: how to stop Big Tech ripping off journalism (again)
Season 2 Episode 26
In the first of three special editions on artificial intelligence and the media, Alan and Lionel are joined by the CEO of ProRata.ai, Bill Gross.
Arti…
1 year, 6 months ago
Q&A: Lionel’s Wild Ride
Season 2 Episode 25
In this week’s Q&A, Lionel Barber takes centre stage to tell the tale of a largely unknown man who, for three days, was the richest man in the world.…
1 year, 6 months ago
Trump 2.0: Buckle up! It’s going to be wild
Season 2 Episode 24
“Fake news”, lies, and a deep distrust of the “mainstream media”: these all marked the Trump’s first presidency. But will Trump 2.0 only usher in mor…
1 year, 7 months ago
Sayeeda Warsi on the Tories and why ‘Muslims don’t matter’
Tune into a special taster of Media Confidential’s sister podcast: former Conservative cabinet minister Baroness Sayeeda Warsi joins deputy editor El…
1 year, 7 months ago
Reporting on a burning planet
Season 2 Episode 23
Hurricanes and wildfires are becoming more frequent. The extreme forecasts that were predicted a few decades ago are starting to happen, and climate …
1 year, 7 months ago
Q&A: Michael Lewis, the Observer and asking difficult questions
Season 2 Episode 22
How do you ask those difficult questions to guests that you want to probe further? And what do you do when they react unexpectedly—and the interview …
1 year, 7 months ago