The Media Show

Noel Clarke libel case, AI articles, filming wildlife


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Actor Noel Clarke has lost his libel case against The Guardian. The paper had run a series of stories containing allegations of sexual misconduct. The judgment found that the meaning of each of the newspaper’s articles was ‘substantially true’. We speak to The Guardian's Sirin Kale, one of the reporters behind the original reporting. Plus, legal commentator Clive Coleman explains how libel cases work.

A number of online news outlets have withdrawn articles by what they thought was a freelance journalist called 'Margaux Blanchard'. But now, it seems the stories may have been written by AI. Press Gazette broke the story last week – they were tipped off to the story by Jacob Furedi, editor of Dispatch, whose suspicions were raised by one of her pitches. Jacob joins us alongside Dr Glenda Cooper, Head of Journalism at City St George's, University of London.

A new football season is upon us, and with it, fresh innovations in how we watch. In the UK, for the first time, some of the live TV rights to the German Bundesliga have been awarded to YouTube channels. Minal Modha from Ampere Analysis analyses the changes to football broadcasting. Telegraph sport columnist Graham Scott also joins us to discuss pivoting from Premier League refereeing to journalism.

As the BBC's natural history series Parenthood approaches its finale this weekend, series director and producer Jeff Wilson from Silverback Films, takes us behind the scenes.

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