AI Could Replace Journalists at Specialized French Publications; Online Violence Against Women Journalists Getting Worse

Also : James Murdoch Sets Out His Vision for Vox Media

🤖 Artificial Intelligence, Platforms and Disinformation

🟣 AI Could Replace 19 Journalists at Several Specialized French Publications
Source: L’Informé
URL: https://www.linforme.com/medias-culture/article/lsa-l-usine-nouvelle-le-moniteur-l-intelligence-artificielle-va-remplacer-19-journalistes_3962.html

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🟣 How to Carry Out Economic Layoffs in France with a 27% Margin Thanks to AI
Source: SNJ
URL: https://www.snj.fr/communique-infopro-digital-comment-licencier-economiquement-avec-27-de-marge-grace-lia/2640

🟣 The Trump Administration Recruits AI Doomers
Source: Platformer
URL: https://www.platformer.news/trump-administration-doomers-ai/?

🟣 OpenAI Is Reportedly Preparing a Self-Serve Advertising Platform
Source: Axios
URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/05/05/openai-self-serve-ad-platform?

🟣 Vine Returns to Battle the Flood of AI-Generated Slop
Source: The Guardian
URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/04/vine-video-sharing-back-battling-ai-slop-divine

🟣 Giorgia Meloni Praises an AI-Generated Image Before Warning About Deepfakes
Source: Paris Match
URL: https://www.parismatch.com/actu/international/ca-ma-considerablement-embellie-giorgia-meloni-flattee-par-une-photo-creee-par-ia-avant-dalerter-sur-le-danger-des-deepfakes-268631

🟣 Spotify AI Blocker: Users Take Back Control
Source: DA
URL: https://da.van.ac/spotify-ai-blocker-quand-les-utilisateurs-reprennent-le-controle/

🟣 Apple Could Let Users Choose Their AI Models
Source: Bloomberg
URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-05/ios-27-features-apple-plans-to-let-users-swap-models-across-apple-intelligence

🟣 Nature Retracts Paper on ChatGPT’s Benefits in Education
Source: 404 Media
URL: https://www.404media.co/nature-retracts-paper-on-the-benefits-of-chatgpt-in-education/

🟣 AI-Driven Hard Drive Shortage Makes Internet Archiving Harder and More Expensive
Source: 404 Media
URL: https://www.404media.co/the-ai-hard-drive-shortage-is-making-it-more-expensive-and-harder-to-archive-the-internet/

🟣 Sora’s Downfall Reveals the Limits of AI’s Creative Utility
Source: The Conversation
URL: https://theconversation.com/soras-downfall-signals-broader-problems-with-ais-creative-utility-280013

🟣 People, Not Algorithms, Are Restructuring the Media Economy
Source: iAfrica
URL: https://iafrica.com/people-not-algorithms-are-restructuring-the-media-economy/

🟣 Tool for Detecting Social Media Manipulation
Source: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/ViralLab/SMDT

🇨🇦 Media, Culture and Information in Canada

🔵 Céline Galipeau Leaves Le Téléjournal but Stays with Radio-Canada TV
Source: Le Soleil
URL: https://www.lesoleil.com/chroniques/richard-therrien/2026/05/05/celine-galipeau-quitte-ile-telejournali-mais-demeure-a-radio-canada-L7WNOI6UK5C37DY2HQTRPH6IWA/

🔵 Netflix’s Reversal on Movie Theaters
Source: Cafétech
URL:

La volte-face de Netflix sur le cinéma

🔵 OPINION — Have We Lost the Battle Against Disinformation?
Source: L’Aut’Journal
URL: https://www.lautjournal.info/20260505/avons-nous-perdu-la-bataille-contre-la-desinformation

🔵 Indomptables Is Over at TVA Network in Canada
Source: La Presse
URL: https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/chroniques/2026-05-05/c-est-fini-pour-indomptables-a-tva.php

🔵 OPINION — Tech Giants : The Artificial Bozos
Source: Le Devoir
URL: https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/chroniques/977789/bozos-artificiels?

🔵 Suspect at Washington Press Gala Charged with Armed Assault on a U.S. Federal Agent
Source: Le Devoir
URL: https://www.ledevoir.com/monde/etats-unis/977777/assaillant-gala-presse-washington-inculpe-agression-armee-contre-agent-federal?

🔵 AI Adds to Climate Disinformation
Source: Agence Science-Presse
URL: https://www.sciencepresse.qc.ca/actualites-scientifiques/2026/05/04/ia-ajoute-desinformation-climatique

🔵 Radio-Canada Première and ICI Musique’s Summer 2026 Programming
Source: Radio-Canada
URL: https://presse.radio-canada.ca/radio/14602/plongez-dans-la-programmation-estivale-2026-d-ici-premiere-et-d-ici-musique/

🔵 OPINION — No Shared Culture Without a Shared Education in Quebec
Source: Le Devoir
URL: https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idees/977441/pas-culture-commune-ecole-commune

🔵 An Investigation into Disinformation Around Deep-Sea Mining in Canada
Source: Canada’s National Observer
URL: https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/05/news/deep-sea-mining-article-misinformation

🔵 OPINION — Making the Dead Speak in the Opinion Space, by Marie-France Bazzo
Source: La Presse
URL: https://lp.ca/eNa12m?sharing=true

🔵 News Coverage of the Trump Administration and Its Policies Recognized
Source: La Presse
URL: https://lp.ca/d7y9nW?sharing=true

🔵 Before Influencers, There Were Bloggers
Source: Mon Carnet
URL: https://moncarnet.com/2026/05/05/avant-les-influenceurs-il-y-avait-les-blogueurs/

🔵 Renaud Lavoie of TVA Sports Says He Suffered Two Strokes Last Friday
Source: TVA Nouvelles
URL: https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2026/05/05/jai-ete-alerte-et-ca-ma-aide-renaud-

📰 Journalism, Media and Press Freedom

🟠 James Murdoch Sets Out His Vision for Vox Media and New York Magazine
Source: Status
URL: https://www.status.news/p/james-murdoch-vox-media-new-york-magazine?utm_source=www.status.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=murdoch-s-vox-vision

🟠 The Intercept Didn’t Just Publish a Story About ICE — It Drove It Around JFK
Source: Nieman Lab
URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/the-intercept-didnt-just-publish-a-story-about-ice-it-drove-it-around-jfk/

🟠 ProPublica Gets a New Look Built to Work Across Platforms
Source: Nieman Lab
URL: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/propublica-gets-a-new-look-built-to-work-across-platforms/

🟠 The Nieman Foundation Announces Its 89th Class of Fellows
Source: Nieman Foundation
URL: https://nieman.harvard.edu/the-nieman-foundation-for-journalism-at-harvard-announces-its-89th-class-of-fellows/

🟠 Julie Brown Wins a Pulitzer Prize for Her Pennsylvania Investigation
Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer
URL: https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/julie-brown-pulitzer-prize-20260504.html

🟠 Washington Post Reporter Hannah Natanson Wins a Pulitzer Prize
Source: The New York Times
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/business/media/hannah-natanson-washington-post-pulitzer.html

🟠 The Media’s Double Standard for Trump Needs to Stop
Source: Margaret Sullivan
URL:

The media's double standard for Trump needs to stop

🟠 Online Violence Against Women Journalists Is Getting Worse
Source: The Nerve
URL: https://www.thenerve.news/p/online-violence-women-female-journalists-world-press-freedom-day

🟠 ASEAN Newsrooms Unite to Launch a Podcast on the Future of Journalism
Source: Rappler
URL: https://www.rappler.com/philippines/asean-newsrooms-unite-launch-podcast-future-of-journalism/