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Fighting for journalism and profitable news media
British Journalism Awards shortlist 2025 | AI misreporting publisher content erodes trust
And Mirror journalists have supported strike action over Reach redundancies and AI use
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Welcome to this week’s Press Gazette Future of Media newsletter on Thursday, 23 October, brought to you in association with Wright’s Media – the premier global content licensing agency with 25 years of industry experience guiding publishing clients.
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We have included links to all the shortlisted work, including much brave journalism, which those wielding careless power would rather see suppressed.
The work on display in this shortlist provides a reminder that our industry is far more than just a business: it’s a huge force for good.
The British Journalism Awards are open to all journalists wherever they work and have a particular emphasis on recognising journalism that serves the public interest. Those from previously under-represented groups who did not have a publisher willing to pay for the cost of their entry were able to enter for free.
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🤖It is a great shame that all those journalists dodging bullets and lawsuits to hold the powerful to account are being exploited by the generative AI companies.
We already knew that ChatGPT, Microsoft, Google and others have stolen all the journalism ever made that was available on the open web to feed their AI models.
Now new research from the BBC has revealed that these platforms are also distorting news reports to an alarming degree in AI-written answers. And these hallucinations aren’t just fuelling the spread of misinformation, they are reducing trust in the publishers themselves – the research has found.
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🪓And as Reach today concluded its six-week redundancy consultation, with around 300 journalists leaving the business and more than 100 new roles created, staff at the Mirror have voted in favour of strike action.
Journalists there are worried that AI will be used to “centralise and duplicate content” in order to plug the gaps left by missing staff.
Reach denies that the cuts have anything to do with AI.
AI has many uses in the world of publishing but, as the BBC research underlines, using it do create journalism is risky in the extreme.
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