This story highlights the risks AI-generated summaries pose to public trust in journalism. The NUJ said: “With misinformation and disinformation rife online, tech giants have a crucial role to play in ensuring they do not amplify false news stories.”

One of many reasons why Threads inferior to Bluesky www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI slop & disinfo may be on the rise but there are beacons of hope & pioneering publishing. Happy 1st birthday and congrats Jim

Nick Clegg says at the RTS Cambridge Convention that Peter Mandelson got him & a few others together when the US/UK tech deals began to be talked about & Clegg told Mandelson it’s “all one way traffic” & a lot of it “seems to be mutton dressed as lamb” & deals the tech companies would be doing…

Lisa Nandy at the @rtsmedia.bsky.social Cambridge Convention says BBC’s a “light on the hill” but says, “People have to be able to trust not just what they see and hear” but in the institution, “and that is why I will never let up on insisting on the highest standards in workplace culture and…

Greggs has dropped its first range of homeware for its comfort-eating fans and it’s not the wurst collab I’ve ever seen tbh beanbagbazaar.co.uk

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All stories about this should be read with the terrific discordant percussion and piano sounds of the Succession theme tune in the background

Excited about this Bagpuss opus but for those unfamiliar with the show it was a 1970s stop-animation, fictional precursor to The Repair Workshop but without an allegedly-problematic key presenter and with TikTok-voice singing mice. A golden age of TV? You decide www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

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This afternoon I discovered a new contender for BAFTA’s TV moment of the year (👏🏻 BBC News) and also I must learn to predict the future to make sure I’m not on wi-fi when a national emergency strikes (no I didn’t get the alert either)

If you only read one thing today make it this: Martha’s Rule now in operation in every acute hospital in England www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Obviously don’t want us to have so many storms we get as far down list of new storm names as Wubbo but a part of me does just for the larks of such a terrific sounding name www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

Doomscroll respite: bird on agapanthus outside my window pt 1

Clickbait co-dependency and its impact on politics is a complex subject unlikely to get as many media story headlines as whatever the BBC is doing on any given day but it really should

‘I’m the first Blue Peter presenter who can’t blink’: inside the revamp of TV’s oldest kids’ show - which is in the safe paws of Hacker T Dog/hands of BBC Studios. Here’s one I made earlier, cocker! www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

“If you survive this, you’ll survive anything”: new survival reality dating BBC series Stranded on Honeymoon Island is “social experiment” about the reality of marriage that will teach audiences about “moving forward with your life”, says host Davina McCall www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

'Now Play for Today is being revived on Channel 5, to give young writers, actors and producers from lower-income backgrounds a way into TV, helped by established talent.' – @taraconlan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

The global #drama market is changing quickly, but opportunities remain. In our second edition of The Indie Hustle, we reveal the top-paying regions, popular genres, and clever funding tactics UK indies are using to secure deals despite market instability.

State of Play (2002) is easily up there with the accepted canon of the Golden Age of TV. It gets forgotten because it’s not American, and because it’s a single six episode series - but I repeat myself

Aw, look! A wedding.

Hello! 👋 Have you read The Indie Hustle’s first piece yet? We spoke with Goalhanger’s #TonyPastor, part of the very first Indielab Accelerator cohort, about building a hit indie, monetising smartly, and what others can learn from his playbook.

Sir David Attenborough at his finest in new BBC show Parenthood in this horrifying scene that’ll “chill parents to the bone”. It’s millennials vs boomers in arachnid form. Series producer/director Jeff Wilson said no parent will “turn up to school pickup without.. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

AI slop might finally cure our internet addiction: fascinating piece in The Atlantic joinspread.com/post/5267f5d...

BBC-exiting Nihal Arthanayake said: “BBC News is ultimately at the heart of the BBC’s trust..Its trust derives from its ability to communicate truth & hold power to account, & it has been proven beyond reasonable doubt when it comes to the BBC’s coverage of Israel and Gaza it has failed to do that.”

Have been wondering for a while - as BBC focuses on brand iPlayer globally & visualised podcasts blur line between audio & video - what the future of the excellent BBC Sounds app is long term

When media imitates science: Trump sues Wall Street Journal and Rupert Murdoch over Epstein report www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Readers love my AI social posts. Many readers appreciate their informal tone. This is an effective way to communicate

Edvard Munch's "Coldplay.” 😱

The Late Show is now the late The Late Show. When a TV institution like this goes (there’ll be much talk about the Letterman days) you know something is happening in media and politics www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Been on new app @spread-social.bsky.social for a while & it’s worth checking out for access to some of the best ideas & articles around; refreshingly it has no comments - just great curation by smart people about the most interesting things to read, watch and talk about joinspread.com

Tired of the AI slop and looking for distraction-free, quality content curated by real people about things you’re interested in? Follow me on Spread to find out more joinspread.com/u/tara-conla...

This is interesting: streamers been avoiding original news shows but Disney+ has announced a weekday news show, What You Need to Know, from ABC News. Fronted by (ex-BBC) ABC’s James Longman & Rachel Scott starts July 21 6am ET & features “smart, bite-size commentary on the stories that matter most”

No BBC-related reviews for ages then two come along at once. On same day as Banijay’s Gregg Wallace report out so is Peter Johnston’s one into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone. Key findings include: BBC and makers HOYO Films apologise. BBC says Johnston finds one breach of editorial guidelines “on…

So much in this: Ant & Dec’s big break, the BBC coming-of-age children’s drama Byker Grove, is now available to stream for the first time ever, but not on BBC iPlayer, it’s on ITVX & STV Player. Hoping the deal involves repeat fees @janinegibson.ft.com

Groundbreaking deal between ITV and Walt Disney to carry each other’s streaming services through a “promotional selection” called a ‘Taste of ITVX’ and a ‘Taste of Disney+’. Could there be more streaming cross promos & what does it mean for plans for a Project Kangaroo-style Brit streaming service?

What’s the odds on “a major social network has an antisemitic AI built into it” being raised by lobby with PM’s spokesperson today? A special DCMS committee? Ofcom launching an emergency investigation? Seems it’s so hard to comprehend that people will just focus on more manageable screaming at BBC.

Fascinating article on how polarisation of debate over AI is mirroring faith-based/ ideological radicalisation. Join Spread to read it for free joinspread.com/post/a045c2e...

ITV’s sweeping daytime revamp has put the health of the sector in question. In this article for the Royal Television Society I spoke to some of some of breakfast TV’s founding fathers and looked back to Roland Rat and Big Breakfast days…and forward to an uncertain future rts.org.uk/article/what...

If you read one thing today, read this www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Gary Lineker’s words hosting a Q&A at last night’s special screening of Gaza: Doctors Under Attack leave questions for the BBC: “It needed to be seen…the BBC should hold its head in shame” (Video credit: Misan Harriman) “As someone who’s worked for the corporation for 30 years, to see the way…

Stars incl Miriam Margolyes, Alexei Sayle, Juliet Stevenson & Mike Leigh & 111 BBC journalists have signed a letter to BBC bosses calling for removal of board member Robbie Gibb over conflict of interest claims over Gaza war coverage.Sent to Tim Davie & Deborah.. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Roger Bolton’s right: Tim Davie has a huge portfolio to deal with under huge pressure. One day saw him range from corporate event to political issue to a programme launch, which finished after 10pm. He runs marathons but even for him it’s a lot of ground to cover www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gaza medics film dropped by BBC to be aired on Channel 4 in UK and, globally on Wed 2 July on ex-MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan’s platform Zeteo. C4 commissioner Louisa Compton said it decided to air Basement Films’ programme, “because we believe it is our duty to tell important journalistic stories…

Ofcom launches new ‘Map Your Mobile’ signal checker tool to help people see which network works best where they live www.ofcom.org.uk/mobile-cover...

The Wellcome Trust is to fund a controversial project to create artificial human DNA 25 years after the human genome was completed. 🧪

Interesting BBC iPlayer is promoting The Assembly on Instagram (note all the hashtags) - the acclaimed show by Rockerdale Studios the BBC let go to ITV because it said it couldn’t afford it. Since going to ITV its Danny Dyer & David Tennant eps got huge coverage www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertain...

Revolutionary Vera Rubin telescope proves existence of Care Bears www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...