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CMA to roll out curbs on Google from October | BBC uses AI to launch in Poland
And PA Media launches new service connecting experts with journalists
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Welcome to your daily Press Gazette media briefing on Tuesday, 24 June.
The UK Competitions and Markets Authority is coming for Google.
It is using powers set out in the 2024 Digital Markets and Competition Act which allows the CMA to fine tech companies up to 10% of total turnover if they abuse their market position.
The CMA has indicated it will prioritise looking at Google AI Overviews, the article summaries which are stealing content and traffic from news websites. The hope is that publishers will be given an opt-out on appearing in AI Overviews and also start getting information from Google around whether clicks are coming via search or summaries.
This could all become moot if ChatGPT and other LLMs replace Google as the main way people search the internet.
But for now Google largely is the internet in the UK with around £20bn a year in advertising revenue. All that cash, data and entrenched technology mean the US tech giant is not going anywhere soon and better regulation to ensure fair play cannot come soon enough.
Today we also report on how the BBC World Service has used AI to help it launch a new service in Poland, its first new language launch since 2018. The mix of AI translation tools and human editors could form the template for other publishers looking to expand into new international territories.
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On Press Gazette
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CMA set to force Google to work more fairly with UK publishers
New regulation of Google search in UK set to start in October.
Inside the pilot BBC World Service website using AI translation
BBC News Polska has a small team adapting and translating the corporation's wider news content.
News in brief
PA Media has launched an “expert hub” to connect journalists with verified experts, promising: “No AI-generated content, no fakes.” Press Gazette recently revealed the extent of fake and dubious experts being widely quoted in the UK and US media, with journalists and PRs already changing their habits as a result.
At least six journalists have reportedly been laid off at the Portland Tribune, which has been owned by Carpenter Media since last year. (Press Gazette)
Ladbible director of editorial strategy Jon Birchall is joining Channel 4 as social innovation and strategy lead for its 4Studio agency. (Campaign)
Conde Nast has named Talib Choudhry as editor of UK-based magazine House & Garden. He is currently head of editorial content at Architectural Digest Middle East which has seen "robust traffic and revenue growth" going from a licensed edition to a Conde Nast owned and operated one.
Andrew Friedman, currently at Google where he advised political campaigns and organisations on the US elections team and formerly of Axios and Politico, is joining Semafor as general manager and head of public affairs. (Semafor)