“To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld,” Gina Chua writes for CJR’s Journalism 2050 Issue, “we serve the audience we have, not the audience we would like to have.” That means taking AI seriously.

Odd how journalists treat totally exceptional people as symbolic of wider trends.

(Not) amazing how the free speech warriors come after critics with lawyers

Starts checking Google maps for journey times to Championship Clubs. Been here before but this feels like the worst dereliction of duty and opportunity failure ever. West Ham are a Business School case study of the mismanagement of a major entrepreneurial potential. David Sullivan is to blame.

This was fun. I enjoyed being grilled on 'truth'. Shows how well the BBC does that bridging role on big ideas. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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There is something very lovely about cooking something in Cornwall that was pulled out of the sea here last night.

The perfect gift for the film buff in your life. A wonderful book of unpublished photos and documents about the making of Don't Look Now. Packed full of visual details and insights that shed light on an extraordinary movie

I like the @lrb.co.uk because I don't like the LRB. Great articles by O'Hagan and Lancaster and a horrible, pretentious piece by Srinivasan. How can you start an article referring to October 7th and then not mention it again? Always good to be challenged...

An excellent lesson from history about misinformation and public media literacy: I like how O'Hagan's take on Walter Lippmann allows that you can be liberal and cynical AND optimistic. Journalism can be both highly limited and vital. [see my forthcoming book etc etc] www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Incredible concert at the Paris Philharmonie- a 'new' Ravel, huge chorus, wonderful cello solos. The hall is great but the rest of the building interior is quite unpleasant

The Richter at Louis Vuitton is a spectacular survey but in the end, too much: exhausting as much as exhilarating

This feels like one of those highly symbolic and historic media industry moments: the Oscars are leaving terrestrial TV for YouTube in 2029 www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

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Good game today. Villa are a better team but we looked good. It didn't matter for me as I was thinking how much this game has changed since I started (1970s) and my sons (2000s). Mateus Fernandes has the attributes, but there will never be another Bonzo

So the King is now a health influencer. And he's brilliant. Not sure how relatable but it feels genuine. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Had fun with my sons at the Barbican's 12th Night. It's basically Shakespearean panto with some poetry and done brilliantly. I wonder what non-Brits make of it? www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

'While collaboration between humans and generative AI does not automatically enhance their joint creativity even after multiple rounds of co-creation sessions, joint creativity does improve over time if there are instructions and guidance on idea co-development.' www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2025/how-hum...

I was wondering what the use case might be for those AI automated podcasts with generated voices. This might be it. digiday.com/media/the-wa...

The World Cup has been corrupt since the beginning but this is just the tip of the iceberg of monumental grifting and extortion. There is no longer any pretence that this is a real people's event www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Into the bowels of the BBC this morning to record a contribution to Moral Maze. It's an easy one: what is truth? Broadcast Xmas Eve 8pm

Refreshingly imaginative vision of what journalism could be in 2026 by @hermida.bsky.social : 'When journalists collaborate with AI in storytelling, creativity flourishes.'

And yet my state of the art eco water heating system doesn't work www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

Thoughtful reflections, but remarkably conservative predictions considering we are talking 25 years hence. Think how much journalism has changed since 2000 and now we have AI. These are all tweaks of current structures (apart from Lorenz). It's hard for current news people to reimagine themselves.

Interesting miscalculation. It's a good book but this appears to be a significant error. LSE's Marion Dumas from the climate change Grantham Institute is interesting on AI and water/energy btw andymasley.substack.com/p/empire-of-...

We’ve got a significant publication out today - a review of how 10 countries around the world organise their public service media, and what lessons can be drawn for the renewal of the BBC Charter www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/g...

Interesting, and I would argue refreshing, job advert from the Economist for a newsroom expert

I love how they don't even pretend it's real or meaningful. It's a straightforward transaction like giving a child an ice cream that we all know is made of sh*t

I'm catching up with family. This I hadn't seen from the archive. My father touring Europe on a Matchless and a Triumph. 3 trips 48/49/50 ranging from Brittany to the Rhine to Switzerland and Sweden.

My Google translate can't cope with this. Any Latinists know what this means?

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Makes me sick that @lsepress.bsky.social takes money from the man responsible for this bsky.app/profile/gerr...

Amazing. @channel4news.bsky.social just trailed an item on water shortages in Tunbridge Wells and then went into a commercial for WaterAid. Priceless irony.

Excellent detailed summary of our Journalism and AI festival. As the article says it was packed with expert and innovative voices from around the world - a great read and all the sessions are online

Stephen raises an interesting point here about UK political journalism. I am not sure how I'd prove the level of policy reporting over time with research. People have argued for decades (see J Birt 'Bias against understanding' 1975) that there's too much horse-race/Westminister bubble journalism.

What a loss. Moore, Hurst, Peters, Brooking all legends, but we were always Billy Bonds' claret and blue army. RIP share.google/6WVpEshnfuBg...

RIP Irony: "I just don’t know what you can do with people like that, people who wilfully refuse to see the reality of a situation simply because it contradicts their political viewpoints" www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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My humble budget take: it's about time people realised you can't have low tax and great public services - especially during a global economic crisis

Guardian doing Guardian things

America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle www.404media.co/americas-pol...

Fascinating workshop with Swiss media execs at St Gallen university - clever, committed people in an odd media market: lots of quality but v fragmented and competitive - AI will help but lots challenges

Swiss trains are wonderful. But I don't understand this advert. Is it just an odd translation or am I completely missing the point?

I find these novels by Balle utterly compelling (I listen to them while running- which makes them even more of a circuit) I love the Groundhog Day trope (Palm Springs was cute) but she really explores the trope in a dense, detailed way www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I like that Swiss TV weather forecasters have to present from outside. Very brave. It's literally freezing (and snowing) here.

The decline in population replacement is one of those mega trends - like migration, which is very much related - that will shape our world, yet we pay little attention to it. As with all mega change, it is frightening but also potentially positive despite this headline www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sundar Pichai has played a blinder today. Warning everyone to take care about AI. Yet no one seems to ask him why he isn't doing anything about that.

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Did you miss the #JournalismAI Festival hosted by @charliebeckett.bsky.social @tshepotothet.bsky.social and @polislse.bsky.social? Here's a summary by our own @marinaadami.bsky.social, with projects from Cuba, Zimbabwe, Spain and other countries reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/journal...

What a good idea. Much cheaper than clearing up the mess of a squished cyclist.