Personalizing newsletters with generative AI; BBC to launch new generative AI pilots to support news production

Your daily press recap

💡 Artificial Intelligence & Journalism

Personalizing newsletters with generative AI: a case study in prompt iteration and refinement
Generative AI Newsroom
https://generative-ai-newsroom.com/personalizing-newsletters-a-case-study-on-iterative-prompt-evaluation-and-improvement-a9f1141900fd

Photo by Maxim Ilyahov on Unsplash

BBC to launch new generative AI pilots to support news production
BBC
https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/articles/bbc-to-launch-new-generative-ai-pilots-to-support-news-production

📈 Politics & Digital Economy

Ottawa cancels digital services tax to ease deal with Washington
Le Devoir
https://www.ledevoir.com/politique/canada/895918/ottawa-annule-taxe-services-numeriques

Our AI Charter: Artificial intelligence at Le Soir
Le Soir
https://www.lesoir.be/684755/article/2025-06-29/notre-charte-lintelligence-artificielle-au-soir

Readers struggle to understand AI’s role in news writing, study suggests
PsyPost
https://www.psypost.org/readers-struggle-to-understand-ais-role-in-news-writing-study-suggests/

AI and journalism: This could be the beginning of a great codependency
Letras Libres
https://letraslibres.com/politica/ai-and-journalism-this-could-be-the-beginning-of-a-great-codependency/30/06/2025/

Artificial intelligence and relationships with platforms
Medium – Damian Radcliffe
https://medium.com/damian-radcliffe/artificial-intelligence-and-relationships-with-platforms-f7d899d93e79

Meta and AI: Problems of scale and a runaway tech race
Platformer
https://www.platformer.news/meta-ai-problems-scale-runway-perplexity-ssi-thinking-machines/

Meta pays dearly to attract AI talent and try to rebound
La Presse
https://lp.ca/jPwkwd?sharing=true

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🧑‍⚖️ Regulation, Ethics & Digital Rights

Everyone has a right to their face: Denmark takes on deepfakes
01net
https://www.01net.com/actualites/chacun-a-droit-a-son-visage-le-danemark-sattaque-aux-deepfakes.html

Russia restricts 15 European media outlets in retaliation for EU sanctions
Anadolu Agency
https://www.aa.com.tr/fr/monde/russie-restrictions-visant-15-m%c3%a9dias-europ%c3%a9ens-en-r%c3%a9ponse-aux-sanctions-de-lue/3617786

Apple now deemed illegal in Europe?
Substack – Café Tech

Apple désormais hors la loi en Europe

Proposed US law would ban states from regulating platforms
Substack – Graham Lovelace

Proposed US state ban on regulating AI is halved to five years with some carve outs

Brazil imposes restrictions on social media content
Rest of World
https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-social-media-content-ruling/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=row-social

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📺 Media & Journalism Industry

CNews sees record-breaking season, remains number one with new TNT numbering
TV5MONDE
https://information.tv5monde.com/economie/saison-record-pour-cnews-toujours-numero-un-avec-la-nouvelle-numerotation-tnt-2778939

French National Assembly rejects public media reform, major blow for Rachida Dati
HuffPost
https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/politique/article/l-assemblee-nationale-rejette-la-reforme-de-l-audiovisuel-public-coup-dur-pour-rachida-dati_252018.html

Substack: A dream of journalistic freedom… but for how much longer?
Mon Carnet
https://moncarnet.com/2025/06/29/substack-un-reve-de-liberte-journalistique-mais-pour-combien-de-temps-encore/

Boiling Frogs: How the press is doing halfway through 2025
Columbia Journalism Review
https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/boiling-frogs-how-press-doing-halfway-year-2025.php

Steve Paikin leaves ‘The Agenda’ at TVO after 18 years
The Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/television/article-steve-paikin-tvo-agenda-ends/

UQAM students join Le Devoir newsroom as interns
UQAM News
https://actualites.uqam.ca/2025/stagiaires-journal-le-devoir/