1/200 S2E61 - Journalism, Media Funding and AI

Description

David Farrier joins us to discuss the advent of AI in the media space, recent lay-offs and the funding structures that led us here. We go into broader detail about the forces driving these issues, particularly in the tech industry, and what hope there is for journalism.

This episode’s co-hosts
Mark, Kyle, David

Timestamps

0:00 Introductions

2:20 Google’s AI Publishing

5:05 Will AI Stick in Publications

7:15 Spam in a New Era

12:05 The Purpose of Media 

14:40 The Cost of a Newsroom

17:57 New Zealand's Extreme and Conspiracy Media

24:22 How AI Makes This Worse

28:46 Discovery’s Impact

30:20 New Zealand Exceptionalism 

32:47 Anti-Journalist Brainrot

34:00 News Scraping

35:28 Tech v News

37:33 Tech Buying Politics

39:09 Investing in Newsrooms

42:01 Restabilization of News Media

45:29 Tech Taking Over News Filtering

51:15 Pushing Back on How AI is Sold

54:49 Community Overrides All

56:52 Closings

Intro/Outro by The Prophet Motive

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