{"id":833427,"date":"2026-07-30T12:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/833427\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T12:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:44:14","slug":"vinyl-group-ceo-josh-simons-hits-back-at-mumbrella-over-claims-of-inaccurate-reporting-and-ai-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/833427\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinyl Group CEO Josh Simons hits back at Mumbrella over claims of inaccurate reporting and AI use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The chief executive of Vinyl Group, the media and technology business backed by billionaire entrepreneur Richard White, has used a 1700-word statement to accuse a trade publication of abusing his staff and inaccurately reporting that the company was using artificial intelligence to write articles.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Simons, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/companies\/media-and-marketing\/behind-richard-white-backed-vinyl-group-s-aggressive-media-expansion-20260303-p5o726\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">considers White a professional mentor<\/a>, this week published a four-page statement on LinkedIn complaining about more than 30 articles and podcast episodes on Mumbrella, a trade title run by Tim Burrowes, who has spent decades reporting on the media.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chief executive of Vinyl Group, the media and technology business backed by billionaire entrepreneur Richard White, has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-833427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}