Dr. Eileen Culloty:

It is a big challenge. It is perhaps even worse than that if you think about the AI issue as putting us back to where we were in the 1990s with a whole new set of technologies and, as I said, a fairly small group of companies that now are about to monopolise the new technology themselves. We can already see, and perhaps members have noticed, that if you go to certain search engines or platforms, there is a lot less news content and a lot more AI-generated content piggybacking on value and original content created by someone else. The issue across all countries now is how we fund and support journalism. I am throwing out more challenges than answers here. The other thing we are going to have to grapple with is that as this problem gets worse - when we are not going to go back to a day where news media can be easily funded by advertising, which it was historically - the challenge becomes how states define their intervention and how we maintain that separation between public funding for media and an independent, pluralistic, diverse media system. Some countries-----