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박장범 KBS 사장이 123 비상계엄 당일 대통령실 관계자와 KBS 간부 등과 연달아 전화 통화를 하면서 이른바 계엄 생방송을 준비하려 했다는 의혹이 공영방송 사적이용 논란으로 번지는 모양새다. K…

올해 초 정보기술(IT) 분야에서 가장 뜨거웠던 관심사는 한국식 인공지능(AI)인 K-AI, 즉 독자 파운데이션 모델 개발이다. 해외 기술에 의존하지 않고 우리 기술로 AI를 만들어 누구나 사용할 수 있도…

정부광고 집행내역이 당연하게 공개되는 지금의 현실은 거저 얻어진 것이아니다. 2020년 전국언론노동조합 지역신문통신노조협의회와 투명사회를위한정보공개센터는 한국언론진흥재단을 상대로…

나는 사진기자로 일하며 사진은 진실하고 강력한 증거라고 생각해 왔다. 그러나 AI 기술이 등장하면서 과연 사진은 진실한가라는 질문을 하게 됐다.지난해 12월, 2026년 붉은 말의 해를 앞두고 기획사…

From markets to spending to debt, usually reliable indicators that forecast where the economy is headed are proving deeply fallible.

Prosecutors’ announcement comes amid a hardening of European attitudes to social media firmsProsecutors have raided the French headquarters of Elon Musk’s social media platform X and summoned the tech billionaire and the company’s former chief executive for questioning as part of an investigation into alleged cybercrime.“A search is under way by the cybercrime unit of the Paris prosecutor’s office, the national police cyber unit and Europol,” the Paris prosecutors’ office said in a post on X on Tuesday, adding that it would no longer be publishing on the network. Continue reading...

Editor of groundbreaking Channel 4 show says he was shocked not to be invited to participate in new seasonThe editor of a groundbreaking Channel 4 show claims the BFI has frozen him out of an upcoming season on multicultural television and is presenting a skewed vision of the programme.Tariq Ali was part of the creative team that produced the global current affairs Bandung File for Channel 4 in the 1980s. The current affairs programme spotlighted everything from the realities of apartheid South Africa to the fallout from the publication of Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses. Continue reading...

D’Amaro will take over next month from Bob Iger, who returned to lead the media company after a bungled successionDisney has unveiled Josh D’Amaro as its next CEO, drawing a line under a bungled succession at the top of the global entertainment conglomerate.Bob Iger, who led the media giant for 15 years, stepped down in 2020 – only to abruptly return in 2022 when his handpicked successor, Bob Chapek, was fired as the company came under pressure. Continue reading...

Bezos has not publicly responded to several letters sent by Post staffers urging him to curb potential layoffsWhile Washington Post employees remain in the dark about an impending round of cuts that could dramatically reshape the publication, the man that many hoped could soften or stop the blow, owner Jeff Bezos, has remained silent.So far, three staff-organized letters sent by Post employees to Bezos imploring him to protect the Post’s robust coverage have gone unanswered. Continue reading...

ITV Sport opts for studio in BrooklynBBC will stay in UK until at least quarter-finalsITV has gained an early advantage over the BBC before their ratings battle at this summer’s World Cup by securing a studio in Brooklyn with views of the Manhattan skyline and Brooklyn Bridge. ITV Sport will be basing all of its World Cup coverage, to be presented by Mark Pougatch and Laura Woods, from its New York studio, whereas the BBC team of Mark Chapman, Gabby Logan and Kelly Cates will be in Salford until at least the quarter-finals.The BBC’s decision to stay in the United Kingdom was based on a combination of financial and environmental factors, with the corporation committed to limiting air trav..

The stars get big audiences and complex characters to develop. We’ve lucked out in this golden age of streaming shows, and so have theyShrinking, the TV series about Jason Segel’s Jimmy, a grieving psychotherapist who can’t stop telling patients what he really thinks, seems pretty innocuous on paper. From Frasier to In Treatment to Sex Education, there’s no shortage of TV dramas about dysfunctional therapists. What marks Shrinking out from the crowd is the presence of Harrison Ford, who plays Jimmy’s octogenarian mentor. Here we see a Hollywood megastar getting high on edibles, wrestling with his failures as a father and trying to keep a lid on his Parkinson’s symptoms. Though Se..

Jemima Beukes, the editor and founder of the online news platform Whistle Namibia and secretary general of the Namibia Media Professionals Union (NAMPU) — an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) — was escorted out of State House in the capital, Windhoek, during the opening of the Cabinet meeting on 2 February, after asking the Namibian president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah a legitimate question. The IFJ and its continental organisation in Africa, the Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), strongly condemn this act of intimidation aimed at suppressing media freedom. This incident raises serious concerns about the respect afforded to press freedom and access to info..

A group of armed individuals raided the headquarters of Aden Al-Ghad newspaper in the southern city of Aden, Yemen, on 1 February. The assailants destroyed and looted the premises and the newspaper’s equipment, and injured two employees. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the Yemeni Journalists’ Syndicate (YJS), in strongly condemning this heinous attack and informs that it will be closely monitoring the investigation launched by the Yemeni authorities to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice.