The Rise of AI Agents and What It Means for Newsrooms; Inside The Economist’s AI Playbook

Your Thursday press recap

📱 Tech & AI

• Apple Urges EU to Repeal Big Tech Abuse Law — La Presse
  🔗 https://lp.ca/dkVqaQ?sharing=true

  

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• AI Puts Wikipedia’s Vulnerable Languages in Doom Spiral — MIT Technology Review
  🔗 https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1124005/ai-wikipedia-vulnerable-languages-doom-spiral/

• The Rise of AI Agents and What It Means for Newsrooms — Twipe
  🔗 https://www.twipemobile.com/the-rise-of-ai-agents-and-what-it-means-for-newsrooms/

• The Essential Handbook for AI Detection — Substack / Henk van Ess
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The essential handbook for AI detection: seven strategies to identify digital fakes

• Inside The Economist’s AI Playbook — Newsroom Robots (Substack)
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Inside The Economist’s AI Playbook: In Conversation with Ludwig Siegele

• AI Will Never Replace On-the-Ground Journalists, Says El Pais Chief — LesNews
  🔗 https://lesnews.ca/intelligence-artificielle/jan-martinez-ahrens-redacteur-en-chef-del-pais-lintelligence-artificielle-ne-remplacera-jamais-les-journalistes-sur-le-terrain/

• SNRT Launches AI-Generated Moroccan News Service — H24info
  🔗 https://h24info.ma/maroc/kiosque/snrt-snrtnews-actualite-maroc-generee-ia/

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🎭 Media & Entertainment

• “Stranger Things” to End After Five Seasons — Le Devoir
  🔗 https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/ecrans/916530/series-americaines-ne-pas-manquer-cet-automne

• Disney Prepares Legal Fight with Trump Over Kimmel’s Return — Bloomberg
  🔗 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-24/disney-gears-up-for-legal-fight-with-trump-over-kimmel-s-return

• Jimmy Kimmel Shatters YouTube Record — La Presse
  🔗 https://lp.ca/8UugYV?sharing=true

• Trump Threatens Possible Action Against ABC — La Presse
  🔗 https://lp.ca/kuKbSu?sharing=true

• Kimmel Returns to ABC with Defiant, Empathetic Monologue — Poynter
  🔗 https://www.poynter.org/newsletters/2025/jimmy-kimmel-returns-to-abc-with-defiant-and-empathetic-monologue-trump-charlie-kirk-suspension/

• Ratings Spike After Jimmy Kimmel’s Return to ABC — CNN
  🔗 https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/24/media/ratings-jimmy-kimmel-return-abc-broadcast

• De Niro as Trump’s Censorship Chief: A Perfect Sketch — HuffPost France
  🔗 https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/medias/video/retour-de-jimmy-kimmel-ce-sketch-de-de-niro-en-nouveau-patron-de-la-censure-de-trump-est-parfait_255184.html

• Apple TV+ Delays Series After Charlie Kirk Assassination — La Presse
  🔗 https://lp.ca/fFKB8T?sharing=true

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📰 Journalism & Media Industry

• Twipe Digital Growth Summit 2025 : AI, tech & the future of news— Twipe
  🔗 https://www.twipemobile.com/twipe-digital-growth-summit-2025/

• Local ABC Affiliates Slammed for Jimmy Kimmel Censorship — CJR
  🔗 https://www.cjr.org/news/local-abc-affiliates-nexstar-sinclair-getting-slammed.php

• Dallas Morning News Shareholders Block Hedge Fund Takeover — Nieman Lab
  🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/dallas-morning-news-shareholders-vote-to-deny-the-hedge-fund-alden-global-capital

• The Right to Information Must Become a Shared Responsibility — Francopresse
  🔗 https://francopresse.ca/opinions/chroniques-et-blogues/2025/09/24/le-droit-a-linformation-doit-devenir-une-responsabilite-partagee/

• ChatGPT, Gaza and Google News: Information at a Crossroads — INA / La Revue des Médias
  🔗 https://larevuedesmedias.ina.fr/chatgpt-gaza-google-actualites-information-sources

• Best Headlines of 2024–2025 (ACES Contest) — Poynter
  🔗 https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2025/best-headlines-2024-2025-aces-contest/

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🌍 Politics & Society

• China Bans Online Pessimism on Social Media — Numerama
  🔗 https://www.numerama.com/cyberguerre/2079243-la-chine-interdit-le-pessimisme-sur-les-reseaux-sociaux.html

• Nepal’s Youth Protests Driven by Social Media — CBC
  🔗 https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nepal-youth-protests-social-media-1.7642523

• Larry Ellison: A Shadow President in Trump’s America — Wired
  🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/larry-ellison-is-a-shadow-president-in-donald-trumps-america

• Security Risk Assessment in Trump’s Times — CJR
  🔗 https://www.cjr.org/analysis/security-risk-assessment-times-trump-safety.php

• The History of Absolute Free Speech — CJR
  🔗 https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/fara-dabhoiwala-history-absolute-free-speech.php

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🎧 Podcasts & Audio

• KPIs and Advertising Strategies in Podcasting — Mon Carnet
  🔗 https://moncarnet.com/2025/09/25/podcast-kpi-et-strategie-publicitaire/

• Interviews and New Media Trends — Pieuvre.ca
  🔗 https://www.pieuvre.ca/2025/09/24/medias-podcast-entretiens-journalistiques-116-nouvelle-place-steve-proulx

• This Podcast Company Went All-In on AI — Indicator Media
  🔗 https://indicator.media/p/this-podcast-company-went-all-in-on-ai-it-shows

• Canadians Turn to Audio to Survive Long Commutes — CNW Newswire
  🔗 https://prn.to/4mtCxVj