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• Quebec Court finds Radio-Canada/CBC Made Good Investigative Reporting About Val-d'Or Police Officers
  Radio-Canada
  🔗 https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2166739/policiers-val-dor-cour-donne-jugement

  

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  TVA Group Cuts Around Thirty Jobs — Interview with CEO Pierre Karl Péladeau

  📺 Source: Radio-Canada
  🔗 https://ici.radio-canada.ca/info/videos/1-10387341/groupe-tva-supprime-une-trentaine-postes-entrevue-avec-pierre-karl-peladeau

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  Radio-Canada Ends Sponsored Interviews

  📰 Source: La Presse
  🔗 https://lp.ca/fbsL9z?sharing=true

📰 Media & Society

• As digital platforms grow unchecked, our culture recedes
  Le Devoir
  🔗 https://www.ledevoir.com/opinion/editoriaux/882679/editorial-projet-loi-109-pas-plus-vers-souverainete-culturelle

• Deezer's troubling user numbers raise red flags
  Café Tech
  🔗

Les chiffres inquiétants de Deezer

• Politico employees alarmed by Axel Springer's AI ambitions
  Wired
  🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/politico-workers-axel-springer-artificial-intelligence/

• Boosting resilience to online disinformation in Canada: motivations and methods
  HabiloMédias
  🔗 https://habilomedias.ca/recherche-et-evaluation/motivations-et-methodes-renforcer-la-resilience-face-la-desinformation-en-ligne-au-canada

• Influencers: Eight public figures open up in a new series hosted by MC Gilles in Canada
  Radio-Canada
  🔗 https://presse.radio-canada.ca/television/13965/gensses-d-influence-huit-personnalites-se-confient-sans-filtre-a-mc-gilles-des-le-29-mai/

• CBS executives resign amid Trump lawsuit
  The Hill
  🔗 https://thehill.com/media/5312467-cbs-executives-resign-trump-lawsuit/

• News/Media Alliance issues statement on Google AI Mode
  News/Media Alliance
  🔗 https://www.newsmediaalliance.org/google-ai-mode-statement

• Survive A.I.? The media startup Every is betting on it
  The New York Times
  🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/business/media/ai-every-media-startup.html

• Journalism’s “slop crisis” began long before the AI-generated summer insert
  Defector
  🔗 https://defector.com/journalisms-slop-crisis-started-long-before-that-ai-generated-summer-insert

• AI learns how vision and sound are connected without human intervention
  MIT News
  🔗 https://news.mit.edu/2025/ai-learns-how-vision-and-sound-are-connected-without-human-intervention-0522

• Chicago newspaper journalists “deeply disturbed” by printed AI-generated content
  Futurism
  🔗 https://futurism.com/journalists-chicago-newspaper-ai-slop

• EU urged to intervene over Hungarian law threatening press freedom
  The Guardian
  🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/21/eu-urged-to-act-over-hungarian-legislation-which-could-restrict-free-press

• Greece becomes first European country to draft AI code of conduct for journalists
  Euronews
  🔗 https://fr.euronews.com/2025/05/22/la-grece-premiere-nation-europeenne-a-rediger-un-code-de-conduite-pour-lutilisation-de-lia

• Print magazines are dead. Just don’t tell Microsoft
  Columbia Journalism Review
  🔗 https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/print_magazine_microsoft_signal.php

• Another press conference, another Trump insult toward a journalist
  Poynter
  🔗 https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/another-day-another-press-conference-with-president-donald-trump-insulting-a-journalist-wesley-lowery-lady-gaga/

• What happens when the news starts talking back? Interview with Miso.ai CEO Lucky Gunasekara
  Twipe
  🔗 https://www.twipemobile.com/what-happens-when-the-news-starts-answering-back-in-conversation-with-miso-ai-ceo-lucky-gunasekara/

• Zuckerberg, Bezos climb billionaire rankings
  Newsweek
  🔗 https://www.newsweek.com/mark-zuckerberg-jeff-bezos-global-billionaire-ranking-2075601

• French newsrooms quietly undergo AI transformation
  Influencia
  🔗 https://www.influencia.net/levolution-des-redactions-francaises-a-lere-de-lia-revolution-en-coulisses/

• TV news funding under review, says Quebec minister Lacombe
  TVA Nouvelles
  🔗 https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2025/05/21/une-aide-pour-linformation-televisee-on-est-en-train-de-regarder-des-scenarios-dit-le-ministre-lacombe

• Even great French-language content gets buried by English media, says analyst
  98.5 FM
  🔗 https://www.985fm.ca/audio/700333/meme-quand-le-contenu-est-excellent-il-va-se-faire-noyer-par-le-contenu-anglo

• Media crisis threatens Quebec’s cultural ecosystem
  TVA Nouvelles
  🔗 https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2025/05/21/crise-des-medias-si-ca-continue-de-meme-il-y-a-un-grand-pan-de-lecosysteme-culturel-du-quebec-qui-risque-de-flancher

• Job cuts at TVA reignite debate over media funding
  Journal de Montréal
  🔗 https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/05/21/postes-supprimes-a-tva-le-debat-sur-le-financement-des-medias-ravive-selon-les-oppositions