#ai-and-media
#ai-and-media

[ follow ]

Media Briefing: BuzzFeed's $120M sale marks another step in the repricing of digital media scale

Platform-era publishing economics have unraveled, making referral traffic less reliable and increasing structural vulnerability for publishers like BuzzFeed.

fromBusiness Insider

2 days ago

Byron Allen wanted to own Paramount. He's buying BuzzFeed instead.

Go back in time to 2016: BuzzFeed, Vice Media, and Vox Media are supposed to be the future of media. Now back to present tense: Vice filed for Chapter 11, Vox is breaking up, and BuzzFeed just sold itself for a fraction of its former value. Meanwhile, many of the companies the digital upstarts were supposed to replace - big publishers and TV companies - are still here.

Media industry

fromVariety

1 month ago

Arte President Bruno Patino Issues Industry-Wide Alert: AI Has Now Pushed Us Into a 'Relationship Economy,' the Only Way Forward Is 'Coalition'

Media sovereignty faces existential threats from conglomeration, AI-driven fragmentation, and loss of shared information commons, requiring urgent industry rethinking.

Media industry

fromWashington Monthly

4 months ago

Don't Let Independent Media Die

Concentrated political attacks, platform monopolies, AI content scraping, and oligarchic consolidation are eroding the economic and legal foundations of a free press in the United States.

Television

fromwww.theguardian.com

7 months ago

In an era of AI slop and mid TV, is it time for cultural snobbery to make a comeback?

Cultural snobbery, largely rejected today, may be necessary to uphold standards against social-media advertainment and AI-generated content.

Psychology

fromPsychology Today

8 months ago

Media and Communications Psychology in the 21st Century

Media and communications psychology examines how evolving internet-driven media, including AI, shape perceptions, behaviors, and social dynamics through measurable effects research.

[ Load more ]