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Why hyper-personalisation could undermine the authority publishers rely on
In attempting to give people what they want, could we lose the curatorial function of news gathering?
Nov 27, 2025
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Head of Content IntelligenceRob Corbidge is Head of Content Intelligence at Glide Publishing Platform, applying the latest knowledge about advances and ideas in the publishing industry to our own product and helping clients get the most from their content.
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Listening to Google: bitter pills, and hard-to-hear truths
A rare chance to hear a voice from within Google who is sympathetic to publishers - just don't assume it will be what you want to hear
Nov 20, 2025
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Slop until we drop? Not for discerning minds
There's more AI-made content than there is human-made. Is this the death of the web, or a tipping point where the AI-internet eats itself and lets a new better web emerge?
Nov 13, 2025
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AI content labelling - a maker's mark or a misinformation band-aid?
Plans for labelling of AI-created content are gathering pace in Europe. Aside from how and where, no-one really needs to ask why.
Nov 6, 2025
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Courthouse shock: Google 0, Publishing 1
Is this an AI headline, or reality? Publishers suing Google for ad market ripoffs have been handed a massive win after a US federal court ruling looked to clear the way straight to damages and remedies. Are we dreaming?
Oct 30, 2025
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Shop 'til you get dropped
AI and Big Search is staring at more of your revenues to boost its own by absorbing affiliate links into its Answer Engines, attacking another pillar keeping publishers afloat.
Oct 23, 2025
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Can Google's unstoppable force in search and AI be stopped? The UK's CMA is about to find out
A prelude to action, or an exercise in bureaucracy? The UK's Competitions and Markets Authority has placed Google on a regulatory pedestal it might not like.
Oct 16, 2025
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Copyright Wars 2: Hollywood Rising
OpenAI surely had the apology ready before Sora's IP infringement machine ever saw the light of day. Can other rightsholders follow the lead set by Hollywood?
Oct 9, 2025
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GenAI grabs Hollywood by the golden globes - it may get a slap
Much as publishing has suffered at the hands of GenAI, now it's the turn of the motion picture industry. Will they have more luck than us?
Oct 2, 2025
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Microsoft breaks dam on AI cash-for-content
A new Microsoft marketplace for AI firms to do business with content creators leaves other AI giants standing
Sep 25, 2025
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An American icon and the price of difficult truths
Robert Redford's portrayal of Bob Woodward in All The President's Men remains the classic study of the investigative journalist, as relevant now as then.
Sep 18, 2025
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The digital locks to make AI botflies pay
Technology is responding to the era of content harvesting and AI companies will have to pay for their base materials
Sep 11, 2025