Jill Kent aka PR Superstar

NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why? Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia… 1/

Social media is populist and polarising; AI may be the opposite ft.trib.al/YuTNwyS | opinion

My @WIRED profile of the lawyers who started the fight against social media companies some years ago, and just had their first win in the court of Los Angeles. They are also fighting against AI companies. wired.com/story/how-ai-c…

Enormously sad to see The Face close - a great team, always an inspiration. Some initial thoughts on where publishing is at right now. neverhurryamurray.substack.com/p/the-face-is-…

@lukeknight @unicorn_mafia That's a cool photo, dude!

🐂ish on London and @unicorn_mafia

New: Journalists have gone independent. Journalists have stayed in traditional newsrooms. But a new hybrid model has emerged, combining independence with a national newsroom's reach. My story w/ @JoannaStern, @MacFarlaneNews, @meiselasb and @karaswisher: thewrap.com/media-platform…

Scoop: Tim Davie will make an immediate return after he stands down as BBC DG with the govenment lining him up to take over as a chair of its creative industries council from Sir Peter Bazalgette. No gap year for Tim.

This used to be the work of junior journalists. Aggregating other news stories, scanning press releases for newsworthy nuggets, cross checking with sources, checking facts, writing it all up… that was my job as a junior reporter for many many years. Doing that work taught me how to write and think. Now that AI does it, who will even have the chance to develop real journalism skills anymore? wsj.com/business/media…

London > SF

New: AI writing is flooding the internet. I talked to a few tech reporters—largely Substackers without the resources of a major newsroom—who are using AI in thoughtful ways to make their scoops, news analysis, and journalism shine.

AI content will vastly exceed all human content

If you want to know how corporate uptake of AI is going in the UK, M&S just sent out a press release boasting about their purchase of 11,000 licences for... Copilot

Delighted to celebrate the fact that @thenerve_news is now indexed by Google News…with our piece about the disastrous appointment of ex-Google yes man getting the top job at the BBC. 🎉🎉🎉

The Guardian says it is bringing in a “much higher quality” of tips from sources since its new secure messaging technology launched last year The ratio of tips received to stories is now “profoundly different” Here's why:

Outstanding research from @TheCoolestCool on Reddit's absolutely wild domination of Google's B2B results: foundationinc.co/lab/reddit-b2b… Just look at these numbers 🫪🧐🤯

everything online looks like this now

On the day journalists rail against non-journalist ex-Google chief Matt Brittin getting the top job at the BBC - ponder on this - two of the country's most high-profile journalists - @BBCr4today Programme Editor Owenna Griffiths and Sky News' Royal Correspondent @SkyRhiannon are quitting their newsrooms for PR - join new co-host @FarzanaBaduel and I on When It Hits the Fan (@BBCRadio4, @BBCSounds) as go under the bonnet here and ask: Why is this and what does it say? bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

@HarryStebbings @pmarca @demishassabis @jakepaul @geoffreywoo @tobi Jeez, that's impressive!

20VC has the best lineup over the next four weeks of any podcast in tech. Week 1: @pmarca Week 2: @demishassabis Week 3: @jakepaul @geoffreywoo Week 4: @tobi The hunger I have to deliver the best guests and best episodes has never been greater. Time to get after it.