Media industry

FILE - A George Mason University fan holds up the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine at a send off for the team, Wednesday, March 29, 2006, in Fairfax, Va. The publisher of Sports Illustrated has notified employees it is planning to lay off a significant portion — possibly all — of the outlet’s staff after its license to use the iconic brand’s name in print and digital was revoked. In an email to employees Friday morning, Jan. 19, 2024, the Arena Group, which operates Sports Illustrated and related properties, said that Authentic Brands Group has revoked its marketing license. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson, File)

Sports Illustrated to lay off most or all its staff

News revealed in letter to employees after license to use its iconic brand name was revoked

 

An editor with an online media outlet says Edmonton police have arrested one of his reporters as they broke up a homeless encampment in the city. Police inspect a homeless encampment as residents and supporters have a stand off as police prepare to clear homeless encampments in Edmonton, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson.

Reporter among 3 arrested as Edmonton homeless camp dismantled

Ricochet Media said their reporter had been released on a promise to appear in court

 

FILE - Poland President Andrzej Duda speaks at an event in support of tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050 during at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Poland’s president says he intends to veto a spending bill which includes money for public media and raises for teachers, dealing a blow to the new pro-European Union government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. President Andrzej Duda said Saturday, Dec. 23 he would veto the bill that includes 3 billion zlotys ($762 million) for public media and would propose a bill of his own. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, file)

Polish president tangles with new government in battle over control of state media

Liquidation gives the state news groups, their employees more protection from the political dispute

 

A press operator looks over the registration and color of a newspaper in Youngstown, Ohio on Aug.7, 2019. There was a flurry of closures of local Canadian newsrooms in 2023 that left municipal governments, non-profits and journalists themselves trying to figure out what’s next.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Tony Dejak

Multiple closures erode Canadian local news coverage in 2023

Researchers say 36 local news outlets closed in Canada as trust in news reporting drops to 40%

A press operator looks over the registration and color of a newspaper in Youngstown, Ohio on Aug.7, 2019. There was a flurry of closures of local Canadian newsrooms in 2023 that left municipal governments, non-profits and journalists themselves trying to figure out what’s next.THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Tony Dejak
Pascale St-Onge, Minister of Canadian Heritage, rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. The amount of funding private broadcasters will get through the Online News Act will be limited — with an even lower cap for the CBC — a federal government source confirms final regulations will say today. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby

CBC to get no more than $7M, private broadcasters $30M under Google deal

Online News Act will see $63M distributed between newspapers and digital media outlets

Pascale St-Onge, Minister of Canadian Heritage, rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. The amount of funding private broadcasters will get through the Online News Act will be limited — with an even lower cap for the CBC — a federal government source confirms final regulations will say today. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Pascale St-Onge, Minister of Canadian Heritage, rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. The amount of funding private broadcasters will get through the Online News Act will be limited — with an even lower cap for the CBC — a federal government source confirms final regulations will say today. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby

CBC, private broadcasters to get reduced share under online news deal

Full details of the Online News Act are expected to be released today

Pascale St-Onge, Minister of Canadian Heritage, rises during Question Period on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Friday, Nov. 24, 2023. The amount of funding private broadcasters will get through the Online News Act will be limited — with an even lower cap for the CBC — a federal government source confirms final regulations will say today. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Catherine Tait, President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) talks on the phone before appearing at the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage in Ottawa, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby

CBC head called to Parliament hill to talk cuts and bonuses

Parliament cannot decide how CBC and its French-language service, Radio-Canada, spend their money

Catherine Tait, President and CEO of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) talks on the phone before appearing at the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage in Ottawa, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Global Calgary traffic reporter Leslie Horton, as shown in this undated handout image, has developed a thick skin after receiving nasty feedback from viewers for years but she unleashed a now viral verbal tirade against one of them last week after the individual “crossed my line.” THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Global News **MANDATORY CREDIT **

Traffic reporter goes viral after response to nasty body comment

Calgary’s Leslie Horton said unplanned response just came out after she received an email

Global Calgary traffic reporter Leslie Horton, as shown in this undated handout image, has developed a thick skin after receiving nasty feedback from viewers for years but she unleashed a now viral verbal tirade against one of them last week after the individual “crossed my line.” THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Global News **MANDATORY CREDIT **
FILE - Text from the ChatGPT page of the OpenAI website is shown in this photo, in New York, Feb. 2, 2023. English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views in 2023. That’s according to numbers collected by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia. And the most popular article was about ChatGPT. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

ChatGPT tops the list of 2023’s most-viewed Wikipedia pages

Cricket makes inroads on list of popular choices among site’s 84 billion page views

FILE - Text from the ChatGPT page of the OpenAI website is shown in this photo, in New York, Feb. 2, 2023. English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views in 2023. That’s according to numbers collected by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia. And the most popular article was about ChatGPT. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge speaks with reporters in the Foyer of the House of Commons, Wednesday, November 29, 2023 in Ottawa. Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge is appearing at a committee hearing this morning, fresh from finally ending Canada’s standoff with Google over the Online News Act. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Ottawa hints CBC won’t be getting full pull under Google Online News Act deal

Opposition critical of public broadcaster getting subsidy

Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge speaks with reporters in the Foyer of the House of Commons, Wednesday, November 29, 2023 in Ottawa. Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge is appearing at a committee hearing this morning, fresh from finally ending Canada’s standoff with Google over the Online News Act. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge speaks with reporters in the Foyer of the House of Commons, Wednesday, November 29, 2023 in Ottawa. Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge is appearing at a committee hearing this morning, fresh from finally ending Canada’s standoff with Google over the Online News Act. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

$100M Google deal means Liberals caved on Online News act: Tories

‘Canada reserves the right to reopen our regulations if there are better agreements struck elsewhere’

Canadian Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge speaks with reporters in the Foyer of the House of Commons, Wednesday, November 29, 2023 in Ottawa. Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge is appearing at a committee hearing this morning, fresh from finally ending Canada’s standoff with Google over the Online News Act. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
FILE - A fan waits for former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning to sign autographs before an NFL football game between the Tennessee Titans and the Indianapolis Colts, Nov. 20, 2016, in Indianapolis. Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by being less than forthcoming about who or what is writing its stories. The website Futurism reported that the once-grand magazine used articles with “authors” who apparently don’t exist, with photos generated by AI. The magazine denied claims that some articles themselves were AI-assisted, but has cut ties with a vendor it hired to produce the articles. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

AI raising questions about transparency as it creeps into media

Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by an AI experiment gone wrong

FILE - A fan waits for former Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning to sign autographs before an NFL football game between the Tennessee Titans and the Indianapolis Colts, Nov. 20, 2016, in Indianapolis. Sports Illustrated is the latest media company damaged by being less than forthcoming about who or what is writing its stories. The website Futurism reported that the once-grand magazine used articles with “authors” who apparently don’t exist, with photos generated by AI. The magazine denied claims that some articles themselves were AI-assisted, but has cut ties with a vendor it hired to produce the articles. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)
Minister of Canadian Heritage Pascale St-Onge rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Google, Ottawa strike $100M deal on controversial Online News Act

Google had warned that it would block news from its search engine in Canada over the legislation

Minister of Canadian Heritage Pascale St-Onge rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Stock photo, Metro Creative Graphics

Northeast B.C. community newspapers publish last editions this week

After 8 decades or more, Dawson Creek Mirror and Alaska Highway News closing

Stock photo, Metro Creative Graphics
The Google News homepage is displayed on an iPhone in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. A lobby group for Canada’s newspapers and magazines says it agrees with many of the issues raised by Google about a law that will force the tech giant to compensate those very publishers for use of their work.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Canadian media supports Google in Online News Act debate

Industry lobby group agrees with tech giant that there should be a cap on how much it should pay

The Google News homepage is displayed on an iPhone in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023. A lobby group for Canada’s newspapers and magazines says it agrees with many of the issues raised by Google about a law that will force the tech giant to compensate those very publishers for use of their work.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
The entrance to the Las Vegas Review-Journal campus is shown in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. The Review-Journal is being viciously attacked, either because of a misunderstanding or willful attempt to mislead, over its coverage of an alleged murder. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

‘Firehose of hatred’: U.S. newspaper targeted online for coverage

Early story of retired police chief’s death feeds ‘internet mob’ after new facts emerge

The entrance to the Las Vegas Review-Journal campus is shown in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. The Review-Journal is being viciously attacked, either because of a misunderstanding or willful attempt to mislead, over its coverage of an alleged murder. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)
FILE - Rupert Murdoch introduces Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the Herman Kahn Award Gala, in New York, Oct. 30, 2018. Murdoch is stepping down at Fox and News Corp, son Lachlan will take over as chairman .(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

Fox News mogul Rupert Murdoch steps down as active leader

Australian billionaire becomes chairman emeritus of both Fox’s parent company and his media holdings

FILE - Rupert Murdoch introduces Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during the Herman Kahn Award Gala, in New York, Oct. 30, 2018. Murdoch is stepping down at Fox and News Corp, son Lachlan will take over as chairman .(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)
A couple of errors by Al Michaels during Thursday Night Football created some backlash on social media. photo courtesy of Amazon Prime

THE MOJ: Sometimes the critics need to think before they speak

‘Rourke for Rodgers’, ‘Michaels too old’ are a pair of narratives that need to die

A couple of errors by Al Michaels during Thursday Night Football created some backlash on social media. photo courtesy of Amazon Prime
The META logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris in Paris, France, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Thibault Camus

$234 million price tag hung on Facebook, Google under Online News Act

Draft outlines how Canada proposes to level playing field between Big Tech and news media sector

The META logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris in Paris, France, Wednesday, June 14, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Thibault Camus
<div>B.C. Premier David Eby is calling on the social media company Meta to reverse its decision to block Canadian news from being shared online in British Columbia as wildfires rage across the province. Eby looks at the chassis of an electric vehicle while on a tour at VCC in Vancouver, B.C., Thursday, July 20, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns </div>

B.C.’s premier urges Meta to allow news sharing in B.C. amid wildfire crisis

Facebook parent continues to block Canadian news on its platform in response to Online News Act

<div>B.C. Premier David Eby is calling on the social media company Meta to reverse its decision to block Canadian news from being shared online in British Columbia as wildfires rage across the province. Eby looks at the chassis of an electric vehicle while on a tour at VCC in Vancouver, B.C., Thursday, July 20, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns </div>