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Romanian Public Broadcaster Airs Independent Documentary That Shakes the Justice System
Romania’s latest institutional crisis did not originate in parliament or the courts, but in investigative journalism, and, crucially, in an unexpected editorial decision by the country’s public broadcaster. The scandal surrounding Romania’s justice system was triggered by Recorder, an independent investigative outlet, whose documentary Justiție Capturată (“Captured Justice”) detailed alleged patterns of obstruction, internal protection networks, and accountability…
AI Reality Check
ChatGPT Tells Users to Leave GoDaddy, Research Finds
Students from the MJRC Young Researchers Program have found that ChatGPT consistently advises users to leave the web-hosting company GoDaddy. In a series of tests carried out between September and October 2025, the students asked ChatGPT to compare GoDaddy with other major hosting providers, including Hostinger, Squarespace, Wix, and Google Cloud. In nearly all cases, the chatbot’s…
The Quiet Takeover: How AI Is Rewriting Newsrooms and Academics
One night in late 2024, a local reporter filed a modest feature about a town festival coming back after years of dormancy. He went home believing his draft would be edited in the morning. By sunrise, the story was live—tighter ledes, cleaner quotes, a few context paragraphs he didn’t write. The CMS, it turned out,…
From the MediaPowerMonitor Archive
The Mathematics of Crime: The Story of a Breathtaking Journalistic Investigation
Two intrepid journalists embarked on an investigation into the unjust conviction of a Czech man, only to uncover a deeply flawed justice system. In 2012, Czech journalist Magdalena Sodomkova found…
From Campus to the Headlines: How a Student Journalism Class Is Breaking Major Stories
Every year, a journalism class at a Vienna-based university unearths attention-grabbing stories. The idea of a practical journalism course dawned on Marius Dragomir while he was chatting with a student…
Big Tech Funding: A Band-Aid Solution for Journalism’s Struggles
New study exposes philanthrocapitalism’s failure to effectively back journalism in the Global South. In the fast-paced world of media innovation, the game-changing bond between news organizations and tech giants takes…
Big Tech and Journalism: Principles for Fair Compensation
“One remedy we do not have in the Global South is the break-up of Big Tech through antitrust or competition authority action,” Michael Markovitz, of the Gordon Institute of Business…
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