That’s the argument of the BBC’s Trushar Barot, who believes voice AI is the biggest technology revolution that the news industry is missing — and that it’s not too late to do something about it.
“Think about platforms as fishing places where you can find large, engaged audiences and build a relationship with them by providing content. Then offer these users some other services off-platform.”
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Doctor, Ken. "Newsonomics: In the platform wars, how well are you armed?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 29 Apr. 2016. Web. 30 Mar. 2025.
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