The Weekly Bulletin | February 25, 2025

Catch up on your members' content, check out the community buzz, and browse through job opportunities

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Vahe Arabian
February 25, 2025

Hi SODP community,

Let’s recap on what’s been happening, the new content, industry updates, tips, and more.

TIP OF THE WEEK

Staying informed in digital media is as crucial as producing content; here’s where podcasts come in. Podcasts have emerged as invaluable resources, offering professionals diverse insights and updates.

Here are ten noteworthy podcasts that provide a broad spectrum of perspectives on the industry:

  1. The Digiday Podcast: A weekly discussion on significant stories affecting brands, agencies, and publishers navigating the digital landscape.

  2. Mixed Signals (Semafor): This podcast unpacks the chaos of the modern media industry, from layoffs and AI disruption to the fight for sustainable business models.

  3. Journalism.co.uk Podcast: Explores the latest innovations in digital journalism, featuring industry experts addressing key challenges and opportunities.

  4. Recode Media with Peter Kafka: In-depth interviews with media leaders, offering candid insights into the media industry's inner workings.

  5. The Martech Podcast: Explores marketing technology stacks, automation, and how tools like CRM or AI reshape customer engagement.

  6. AdExchanger Talks: A weekly deep dive into digital advertising, data-driven marketing, and the evolving ad-tech ecosystem featuring industry leaders.

  7. The Media Briefing (Press Gazette): Analyses the latest trends in publishing, media business models, and strategies for newsrooms adapting to digital disruption.

  8. Recode Media with Peter Kafka: Explores the collision of tech and media, with interviews on streaming, platform power, and how giants like Netflix or TikTok shape the industry.

  9. Radiolab: A show exploring scientific and philosophical questions, blending storytelling with investigative journalism.

  10. The New Yorker Radio Hour: A co-production featuring a mix of profiles, storytelling, and insightful discussions on current topics.

Engaging with these podcasts can further enhance your understanding of digital media, inspire innovative ideas, and strengthen your professional network.

WP Week 2025

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SODP POSTS

Generative AI is Already Being Used in Journalism – Here’s How People Feel About it

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has taken off at lightning speed in the past couple of years, creating disruption in many industries. Newsrooms are no exception.

A new report published today finds that news audiences and journalists alike are concerned about how news organisations are – and could be – using generative AI such as chatbots, image, audio and video generators, and similar tools.

The report draws on three years of interviews and focus group research into generative AI and journalism in Australia and six other countries (United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland, Germany and France).

Only 25% of our news audience participants were confident they had encountered generative AI in journalism. About 50% were unsure or suspected they had.

JOB BOARD

➡️ ProPublica is looking for a temporary full-time audience editor for six months who will work closely with senior editors and reporters on the presentation and promotion of its stories and who will assist the audience team with daily social platform programming. (USA). SEE MORE

➡️Global  is seeking an SEO Editor who will play a key role in shaping its digital content strategy, ensuring its stories reach the widest possible audience, working closely with journalists, editors, and digital teams to optimize content, analyze performance and drive organic traffic growth (London). SEE MORE

COMMUNITY BUZZ

Industry News

➡️ WordPress announced a new lower-cost plan that enables a 100-year domain name registration with one payment. WordPress.com updated their 100-year domain and hosting plan, unlocking the opportunity to secure a domain name for a one hundred year period for only $2,000. READ MORE

➡️ Google posted a new Google Ads update for Response search ads (RSAs) where up to two RSA headlines can serve in the space that previously only sitelinks were eligible for when Google's system predicted they would improve performance. READ MORE 

Social Media Discussions

➡️ Ezra Eeman on LinkedIn:

Inspired by a question from David Dieudonné I started this weekend with collecting some generative AI product/chat experiences from media companies.

This is just a first step since I would love to collect a bit more details and build some understanding of the strategic objectives driving each AI assistant's design + how do they shape user engagement metrics?

Other dimensions worth probing: How do these digital companions build and maintain user trust? What's their natural habitat within existing workflows? And how do they fit into broader product portfolios?

These are the highlights for the last week.

Until next!

Vahe Arabian and the editorial team at SODP