Blake Mackenzie, a 12-year-old from Newcastle, won the top youth prize at the Australian Poetry Slam with a poem about artificial intelligence performed at the Sydney Opera House; the competition ran 65 heats across 60 towns and cities to find 16 finalists and is in its 22nd year.
Aisha Malik for TechCrunch profiles six reading apps — Fable, Bookshelf, Pagebound, StoryGraph, Margins and others — highlighting tracking, social features, discovery tools and subscription tiers; Goodreads is explicitly excluded from the list in favor of newer platforms.
At a three‑day INMA Newsroom and AI Master Class (20 October 2026), speakers described a shift in which newsrooms treat AI not only as a tool but as a means to redesign production, prioritise higher‑value journalism, and develop new revenue and audience strategies.
Facing abundant AI-generated content, major news organisations are emphasising human-crafted processes, visible journalists and editorial signals to persuade readers to subscribe.
A recent INMA webinar discussed research showing Americans spend nearly as much time on e-mail as on social media and warned that AI features in Gmail, Yahoo and Microsoft inboxes are beginning to filter and summarise messages, forcing newsletters to earn attention through depth, personality, clear purpose and personalization.
Sanxingdui: Future Memories is a 90‑minute film produced with ByteDance's Jimeng AI by Bona Film Group's AIGMS centre that opens nationwide in China on 23 October; the National Film Administration granted a public screening licence on 28 April and the release date was announced on 27 September.
RENÉ 26, the second Rencontres Européennes des Nouvelles Écritures founded in 2025 by Jean Boillot and his company La Spirale, will take place in Metz on 26 and 27 October and foregrounds theatrical writing as a way to explore telepresence, distributed performance and the integration of conversational AI and chatbots as stage agents.
A recent piece in Revista de Comunicación presents media literacy as an established strategic area of study since the late 20th century, describes its academic broadening to include digital competencies, civic participation and resilience to disinformation, and calls for stronger theoretical and methodological frameworks to meet rapid technological change and growing policy demand.
Artificial intelligence is changing the competencies required in communication professions and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid is relaunching the seventh edition of its Master in Innovation and Transformation in Communication for 2026–2027 with a reinforced Latin America focus and a Full Stack Comms Talent model.
Digiday reports that media agencies are navigating a more complex advertising environment driven by economic uncertainty, fragmented media consumption and rapid technological advances, while advertisers are reassessing strategies and AI search plus creator marketing add new changes and questions for agencies.
Discovery is shifting from traditional search to AI systems that synthesize answers before users reach websites, prompting the rise of Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and a need for organizational redesign to manage AI visibility across marketing, data, technology, content and communications.
A study of 32 news organizations across 10 South American countries (2023–2025) finds generative AI moved from experimentation after the public launch of ChatGPT in late 2022 into an operational element of journalism, concentrated in audience mediation, production support and political-institutional roles.
J·Index, compiled by journalist Katya Gorchinskaya, documents more than 3,000 publicly reported uses of artificial intelligence in news organizations and finds that 60% of those implementations take place within newsrooms, while about one third correspond to small, local or hyperlocal media.