StW: Why women are rejecting news; Research industry trembles at AI onslaught; Seven’s comic signing

Welcome to Start the Week, our Monday scene-setter for the week ahead. Today: Why are women turning away from news?; The dawn of synthetic data – good news for marketers, bad news for research companies?; and comedian Mark Humphries joins Seven News

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