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Swiss to vote on right-wing plan to slash state broadcaster's funding Switzerland votes next month on a proposal to slash funding for its state broadcaster SRG, a step supporters say will save Swiss households money, but opponents say reflects pressure globally on publi...

Should the budget of the public broadcaster be slashed to 50%? People in Switzerland will decide in a referendum on March 8. The populist right SVP leads the "Yes" campaign. Many organizations mobilize for a "No" and tend to have the upper hand but the race is close.

www.reuters.com/business/swi...

Soon, voters in Switzerland will decide on a far-right pop initiative to cut funding for the public broadcaster.

The messaging is split. In the French-speaking area, the far-right stresses cost savings&financial relief, avoiding ideology. In the Swiss German part, it’s „slashing left-leaning media“

Aid convoy en route to Ukraine, August 2014 Picture: dpa, published in Süddeutsche e

No clue why this crosses my mind today.
Russian aid convoy en route to Ukraine in August 2014

Bereits aber wieder zurückgekrebst. Auf der Website heiss es mittlerweile „ihre“.

Wie die Weltwoche im Grammatikkampf seine Glaubwürdigkeit verspielt

Holleri du dödl di. Diri diri dudl dö.

Mal schauen, ob die Wähler in Baden-Württemberg ähnlich Mühe haben, die Spitzenkandidaten von Grünen und AfD auseinander zu halten.

Welche Rolle spielt die SRG SSR im Mediensystem der Schweiz? Als Beitrag zur Debatte über die "Halbierungsinitiative" haben wir ein Factsheet zusammengestellt - mit Daten zur Mediennutzung (@reutersinstitute.bsky.social) und zur Qualität der Berichterstattung.

www.foeg.uzh.ch/de/news/2026...

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Switzerland ???

Public support for #DeepfakeRegulation: In an online survey, @dnvglr.bsky.social, @adrauc.bsky.social and @notsaved.bsky.social explored presumed effects, perceived risk and trust in institutions regarding deepfakes of Swiss citizens. doi.org/10.5771/2192...

🔎 Mediennutzung 2035 - neue fög-Studie zeigt: Nachfrage sinkt, ein Teil des Publikums nutzt News aber bewusster. Digitale Kanäle dominieren, eigene Plattformen werden noch wichtiger. Vertrauen und Qualität bleiben entscheidende Erfolgsfaktoren für den Journalismus.
👉 www.foeg.uzh.ch/de/news/2025...

Publishers expect traffic from search to fall by 43% in the next 3 years. This is one of the findings of our new report on media trends. Authored by Nic Newman, it's based on a survey of 280 media leaders.
Full report
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7 findings in thread

The original "up to eleven" knobs in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap

A quiet thought about the founder of the movie which brought us the "these go to eleven" line (This is Spinal Tap)

Soziale Netzwerke: Medien als Schulstoff Deutschland-Schulen-Verbot-Sozialer-Medien-Netzwerke-Zeitungen-Fernsehen-Radio-Bildungssystem

In jeder Schulklasse sollte Zeitung gelesen und über das aktuelle Geschehen gesprochen werden - nicht ab und zu in speziellen Projekten, sondern immer wieder, jede Woche. Mein Plädoyer für mehr Medien- und Demokratiebildung, heute in der FR:
www.fr.de/meinung/kolu...

Wie haben sich die Medien (Online und Print) in der Schweiz entwickelt?
Für den «Strukturbericht» des BAKOM haben wir zwei Studien beigesteuert. Ausgewählte Resultate:
Online weiterhin hohe Vielfalt und hohe Konzentration (?!?): Mehr als 300 Angebote, aber Top 5 haben 73% der Gesamtreichweite
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Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Wieder einmal eine messerscharfe Analyse und mit feiner Klinge argumentiert, Herr Schneider!

I'm a regular (local) user of Swiss trains and I don't understand this ad either. Maybe the text/translation was an AI idea? (BTW, SBB/CFF's most recent ad campaign - not restaurant-related - has AI-generated pictures, which was criticized in the news media a few days ago ...)

Resonanz und Akzeptanz der Akteur:innen bei der "Initiative für eine Zukunft"

Mediales Interesse für die Abstimmungen vom 30.11.25 bisher höchstens durchschnittlich. Die «Initiative für eine Zukunft» der Juso wird sehr negativ bewertet. Mit Ausnahme der Juso (und ihrer Mutterpartei SP) ist keine Akteursgruppe mit überwiegend zustimmenden Voten medial präsent.

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UZH: Professur für Kommunikationswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Wandel und Innovation in der Kommunikation An der Universität Zürich ist auf den 1. August 2027 eine Professur für Kommunikationswissenschaft mit dem Schwerpunkt Wandel und Innovation in der Kommunikation zu besetzen. Die künftige Stelleninhab...

📢Fantastic job-opportunity at the #UZH department for communication and media research
@ikmz.bsky.social: Professorship in Communication Studies with a focus on Change and Innovation in Communication 100% 😍 Deadline for applications: December 17, 2025. jobs.uzh.ch/offene-stell...

Stones from the Berlin Wall, November 1988

Precious stones at home

Berlin, November 1989

Journalists are souring on social media platforms, an analysis of 11 years of Nieman Lab predictions suggests While these predictions suggest that the journalistic community’s enthusiasm for social media platforms has waned over time, there has been no such change in the perceptions of the people actually…

Journalists are increasingly viewing social media less as an audience-building tool and more as a threat to credibility.

www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/jour...

Is social media dying? How much has Twitter changed as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation?

Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has transformed.

Here are the key take-aways 🧵

arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417

We've just published the most comprehensive study of news creators to date covering 24 countries. Authored by Nic Newman @amyrossarguedas.bsky.social @mitalilive.bsky.social @richardfletcher.bsky.social, it identifies the most mentioned in each country

📱Report buff.ly/bL6y8Hj
🧵6 findings in thread

News Deprivation on the Rise – with Consequences for Democracy

The Yearbook Quality of the Media 2025 is here!

📊 Focus topic: News deprivation and its consequences for democracy.

👉 Learn more and find additional analyses, including on the sources used by AI chatbots: www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/...
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News-Deprivation

Das Jahrbuch Qualität der Medien 2025 ist da!📊 Im Fokus: News-Deprivation und ihre Folgen für die Demokratie.

👉 Mehr dazu und weitere Analysen, u.a. zu Quellen von KI-Chatbots: www.news.uzh.ch/de/articles/...
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory New research coordinated by the EBU and led by the BBC has found that AI assistants routinely distort or misrepresent public service journalism.

The EBU just published a new report on how well consumer AI chatbots function as gateways to news by public service media – an interesting piece, but with some big problems in my view that make me question its usefulness.

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The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects Between May and October 2025, homepage snapshots fell by 87% across 100 news publications.

For the past few months, the Wayback Machine has been showing many fewer snapshots of news publishers' homepages than it used to. Something happened on May 16, but what?

@hanaatameez.bsky.social and @andrewdeck.bsky.social investigate

www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/the-...

Very much true! I was deeply impressed.

People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news. "For news organizations, our findings are in some ways bitter medicine."

"The generative AI wave isn’t coming — it’s already here, and it’s reshaping how the public finds information." @felixsimon.bsky.social has written about our recent report, including rapid growth in how many (and how) people use generative AI to get information www.niemanlab.org/2025/10/peop...