British Journalism Awards shortlist 2023: Best public interest reporting of last year revealed
In full: British Journalism Awards shortlist 2023, with links to all the finalists’ work.
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National World debuts AI-generated weather presenter on London site
The unnamed presenter appears to be the first serious UK attempt to deploy an AI newsreader.
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Norway’s biggest daily doubles audio audience with AI-voiced articles
Norwegian daily says text articles read by an AI voice have similar listen rates to its podcasts.
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New analysis suggests ads are hitting site performance on leading UK news sites
Top 50 UK news websites ranked by site performance.
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Major news publishers block the bots as ChatGPT starts taking live news
Independent Publishers Alliance urges members to block GPTBot and Google Bard crawler ASAP.
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Trust-focused Money Saving Expert builds AI chatbot but warns users it ‘may cock up’
Editor-in-chief Marcus Herbert explains why UK’s “most-trusted brand” is cautiously using gen AI.
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Survey reveals global newsroom adoption of AI at early stage but set to increase
Three-quarters of respondent newsrooms see the new opportunities from ChatGPT and Bard.
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Editorial ‘co-pilots’ and monetising archives: Generative AI in action at ITN, Future, Bauer, AP and others
Including testing paywall copy, training chatbots on one expert site and translating news.
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