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AI-driven answers are now being flagged for citing a very narrow set of headline news sources — a trend that threatens local journalism, distorts public debate, and concentrates editorial power in the hands of a few highly visible outlets. Background / Overview The recent debate began to...

A new University of Sydney study warns that AI-driven news summaries are quietly reshaping how Australians encounter current affairs — and not in ways that favour local journalism. The paper, led by Dr Timothy Koskie of the Centre for AI, Trust and Governance, finds that Microsoft’s Copilot...

A newly published study from the University of Sydney raises a stark warning: AI-driven news summaries are systematically sidelining Australian journalism, amplifying global outlets while erasing local journalists, regional context, and the economic pathways that sustain independent newsrooms...

A new University of Sydney analysis shows Microsoft Copilot’s AI‑generated news summaries systematically under‑represent Australian local and independent media, favoring large national and international outlets instead — a pattern that risks diverting referral traffic, eroding byline visibility...

The Press Democrat’s daily roundup of Letters to the Editor for Sunday, Dec. 28 arrives as more than a collection of opinions — it’s a compact mirror of civic life in Sonoma County and a reminder that the mechanics of local conversation are shifting underfoot as newsrooms retool their digital...

A short, upbeat column in the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal urges readers to greet the new year with steady resolve and keep moving forward — an ordinary piece of local commentary that, on closer inspection, reveals much about the role of community newspapers in a digital age, the...

Brisbane’s radio dial is quietly reshaping itself — and not just because of familiar faces like Laurel Edwards and Loretta Ryan, but because corporate decisions, regulatory pressure and shifting audience demographics are forcing program directors to make high-stakes choices that will determine...

A seemingly ordinary sports photo page titled “Falcons Cowboys Football” paired with an obituary excerpt for Odessa Dillard Foddrell, 84, who died on August 12, 2025 in Conover, North Carolina, reads like a glitch in the matrix—but it’s also a snapshot of how fragile modern, template-driven news...

A small local-news photo page showing a Jaguars–Saints football moment—paired with a Bluefield, West Virginia forecast calling for mid‑70s highs, rising rain chances through the afternoon, and a cooler, showery evening—captures a bigger reality of game day in 2025: fans jump between highlights...

A single frame published on a local page — a wire or staff photograph labeled “Panthers Texans Football” and paired with a terse, weather‑style line — crystallized a familiar but avoidable editorial tension: vivid visual storytelling versus the metadata and verification practices that protect...

A striking staff or wire photograph labeled "Panthers Texans Football" ran on a regional page alongside a short, weather‑style caption — a small editorial choice with outsized implications for verification, metadata stewardship, and audience perception. Background Local and regional newsrooms...

The photograph and short caption that ran with the Bluefield Daily Telegraph’s “Ravens Cowboys Football” item compress a noisy preseason audition into a single, sharable moment — but the fuller story behind the image is about evaluation, risk management, and how local visuals steer national...

The image and brief caption that ran with The Herald Journal’s “Ravens Cowboys Football” item do more than illustrate a single play—they crystallize a preseason narrative that, taken alone, can mislead as often as it informs; careful inspection of the accompanying facts, verified box-score...

I tried to fetch the McDuffie Progress event page you linked, but I couldn't reach the page: the site returned a “Too Many Requests” response (client_ip: 104.196.9.116, request_id: 9447248202). I also ran a web search for the event and didn’t find a reliable copy of the listing to cite. Because...

Photographs from the Patriots–Commanders matchup that appeared across regional outlets this week underscore a familiar truth: in modern sports coverage, a single image is equal parts journalism, metadata package, and a potential legal — or privacy — landmine for anyone who downloads, edits, or...

The newly built Spirit of Tasmania IV will continue to be stored in a Scottish port for at least another month. The Tasmanian government made the announcement in its regular update of the Spirit of Tasmania ferry replacement project. Scottish mothballing of Tasmanian ferry continues :razz:

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I have a six-month-old Dell laptop and a 10-year-old Dell desktop. Everything works just fine on the laptop. But on the desktop, both local and national news station videos will not download without pauses, though YouTube and similar ones work fine. I have the same 5G Internet on both...

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