Media Monitor Podcast by Marco Hugo-Barsotti

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Tariq Krim:  In Europe, we no longer have any technology leaders, because we favored big companies such as telcos and did not believe in small startups. And we do not have a real software culture: because, yes, the software is culture. A larger and larger part of our data is stored and operated from companies abroad, and that's a massive risk. After the European Court of Justice ruled in favor of...

Eugenio La Teana, RTL102.5 and WorldDAB :  All analogue and digital platforms are still needed today. Almost reached 10 million DAB + receivers in Italy. Often users do not realize they are listening to DAB and this is a good thing. DAB could overtake FM in Italy in 2025, but even then it would be foolish to abadaon analog. After switching off we will have to reconvert the 88-108 band, not abandon...

Triolo (Statcast): The pandemic has acted as a springboard for digital radios, reducing the gap with old technologies. Aggregators? If you are not well positioned, you become a number, you disappear. Certainly the aggregator does not value the contents. I think every broadcaster is right to use their own app, giving value to their programming also through vertical radios and other initiatives. Wit...

NL Media Monitor , let's talk about RaiPlay Sound (and more) In this episode of Newslinet media monitor we explore the new RaiPlay Sound platform with Andrea Borgnino and some issues relating to the role of the media in the conflict in Ukraine. In a second appointment, which we will publish shortly, we will talk about RAI Teche and Radio Techetè.  The full interview, which also touches on topics n...

The massive news gathering operation put in place by the BBC in Ukraine on March 10 2022, including four journalists in the capital, one in Poltava and two in Lviv, is integrated and supported by journalists in different teams dedicated to the selection, verification and fact-checking of what emerges from social media, in particular video content shared by ordinary citizens. This is a job that has...