New analysis of how Britain voted in 2024 - for the first time in decades Labour won among every social class group - as class continued to decline as a predictor of voting behaviour ipsos.com/en-uk/how-brit…

Excited & proud that our book is published today! And it couldn't be more timely. We studied what happened to media freedom in the US under Trump, with a deep dive into the Voice of America. We show how this important public broadcaster was 'captured' by the administration...🧵

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Introducing Figure 02 The world's most advanced AI hardware Exclusive pics + technical writeup👇

DeepMind developed a table tennis AI-powered robot with “human-level performance“ The robot won 100% against beginners and 55% against intermediates in 29 games People have been playing games like chess against AI for a while, but physical games are new

The key to enhancing trust in journalism through regulation is for regulators to strive towards “greater visibility, transparency, efficacy and public engagement,” a new report by Leeds Uni Media's Professor Julie Firmstone (@AccidentalPO) has found ahc.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/2…

Important and timely research on trust in journalism and regulation - by our own Professor Julie Firmstone (@AccidentalPO) and University of Derby's @Prof_John_Steel. Follow the link to read more 👇

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What a nice dream, dreamt for us by alan rusbridger prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technolo…

NEW📚 Our *free* #openaccess book Measuring Exposure and Attention to Media and Communication: Solutions to Wicked Problems is out🚀 A privilege to work w/ Peter Neijens, @judith_moeller & theo araujo | @[email protected] on this. 📢Share the joyful msg on this sad platform aup.nl/en/book/978904…

"The [New York] Times case against OpenAI rests on the claim that “there is nothing ‘transformative’” about how the tech company had used the newspaper group’s content." (In 2015 court case, Google’s use of books was found to be “highly transformative”) on.ft.com/4cKXYfr

🗞️ New piece in MIT Technology Review by Keegan McBride, Sacha Altay and me: We argue that AI’s current impact on elections is being overblown, and it's distracting us from deeper and long-lasting threats to democracy. Long version: technologyreview.com/2024/09/03/110… Short summary ⬇️

Uses of generative AI in the newsroom: mapping journalists’ perceptions of perils and possibilities. buff.ly/3X7XslV

Some positive personal news involving Leeds Uni Media More on BlueSky (bsky.app/profile/imkehe…)

Honorable mentions go to @PaulJReilly and Imke Henkel @imkehenkel.bsky.social 🙏🏻

Very much looking forward to this -will be interesting and fun! And some great creative young journalism to admire. Many thanks to Godela Weiss-Sussex and DAAD_UKandIreland for organizing!

Readers find traditionally-crafted news articles more comprehensible than articles produced with automation. However, they were equally satisfied by the automated & manually-written articles in terms of character of writing & narrative structure & flow: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

“A masterly intervention that should be on reading lists everywhere as a primer for those struggling to envision transformative alternatives for #media and #democracy.” Barbie Zelizer, Annenberg School for Communication Natalie Fenton’s ‘Democratic Delusions’ is out now!

I think this share move is driven by fact Tesla is much more than a car company… an AI company, a software company, with the robots too… with the new President having the power to shape the rules of the road for AI and autonomous driving for years to come…

Fascinating survey report of UK journalists - thanks Imke Henkel @imkehenkel.bsky.social for sending it. Striking findings on belief in objective reporting/ need for interpreting facts - useful for our impartiality project at JOMEC @ Cardiff Uni Cardiff Uni Comms