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For a long time I thought it was the most cynical thing I had heard in my working life. “There are no prizes for being right, Alan,” said the senior executive during a conversation about whether we should sign up to a shiny new initiative t
Foreign firms are able to take minority stakes in British newspapers after MPs voted by a wide margin to relax restrictions on overseas ownership. The House of Commons approved a government-backed amendment allowing companies based outside
Particle, the AI-powered news app created by former Twitter engineers, is expanding beyond its hallmark summaries to include full-length narrative journalism. A new feature, Long Reads, will allow users to engage with in-depth commentary an
Substack is deepening its investment in video as it positions the platform to attract a wider range of creators and advertisers. The newsletter-based service has rolled out a series of video tools over the past year – including live streami
The Dallas Morning News has named Colleen McCain Nelson as its new executive editor. Nelson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with nearly three decades of experience, will take up the role on August 11. Currently executive editor of the
Douglas McCabe, the long-serving CEO of Enders Analysis, is joining the Guardian later this year as its chief strategy and business development officer. The move marks a major career shift for one of the UK media sector’s most influential a
South Africa’s largest media company, Media24, has reported a 17% fall in revenue for the financial year ending March 2025, as it winds down most of its print operations and accelerates a shift to digital. Revenue dropped from R3.2 billion
Google has launched a new tool called Offerwall, designed to help publishers offset the sharp decline in traffic caused by the rise of AI-powered search. Announced on 26 June, the tool offers alternative ways for users to access content, in
The BBC has launched two public pilots using generative AI to support its newsroom operations, part of a broader push to explore how artificial intelligence can help with news production while maintaining editorial control and transparency.
Reuters has named Rob Lang as its first newsroom AI editor, a new role aimed at accelerating the integration of artificial intelligence across editorial operations. He will take up the post on July 1, reporting to Jonathan Leff, global edit
The BBC has launched a paid subscription for its news website in the United States, marking a significant shift as it seeks to diversify revenue amid growing pressure on its traditional funding model. American users will now be asked to pay
The Quint’s has seen the average session duration of readers rise by nearly a minute to almost five minutes since the launch of its NewsEasy suite of AI features, according to Tarun Jain, the Indian digital-only news publication’s product h
The UK’s competition watchdog is preparing to impose sweeping new rules on Google that could reshape how search results and AI-generated summaries work, potentially transforming how publishers’ content is used and surfaced. The Competition
It would be so easy to stand in line, nod solemnly and pretend this new set of synthetic media guidelines is flawless. But someone has to push back on behalf of the industry, so here I am. The report in question comes from Partnership on AI
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping journalism faster than any previous technological shift and demands urgent adaptation from media professionals, warned Rosental Alves at the 10th Innovation, Technology and Journalism conference in Bueno
Canada is rethinking how it regulates artificial intelligence, moving away from the sweeping framework proposed under the previous government and instead crafting a new set of rules that place copyright and cultural protection at the centre
The BBC has issued a legal threat to AI startup Perplexity, accusing it of using BBC content without permission to train and power its artificial intelligence tools. The move, first reported by the Financial Times, marks the broadcaster’s f
Axel Springer is aiming to double its value within five years, with a bold plan built around artificial intelligence, platform independence and clearly stated political values. The ambition was laid out by CEO Mathias Döpfner at the company
Louis Dreyfus, the ceo of Le Monde, explained that he decided to sign deals with AI companies to allow them use the French newspaper’s content because they were doing it anyway. Speaking at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media India conference in Chenn
News Corp has extended the contract of its chief executive Robert Thomson to June 2030, backing his leadership through a decade of change that has seen the company’s share price rise 140%. Thomson, who has led the publisher since 2013, was
Hearst has introduced a voice-controlled AI assistant on its recipe site Delish, offering home cooks hands-free guidance through recipes. The tool, called Cooking Coach, was originally developed as a weekend experiment by Alexandria Redmon,
News publishers in India are asking the same questions and facing the same issues as those in the US and Europe was the conclusion after two days of discussions and presentations at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media India conference in Chennai this
Bay City News, a small local nonprofit, has won plaudits for showing how artificial intelligence can enhance coverage without undermining trust. The publication, which serves the San Francisco Bay Area, recently won the 2024 Local Media Ass
Investigative podcasts have become a fast-developing format for modern journalism, combining deep reporting with the immersive storytelling of long-form audio. Though still a niche within the broader podcasting ecosystem, their ability to e
In our keynote talk yesterday at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media India in Chennai, Michael, my co-founder at HBM Advisory, and I set out a practical framework for managing change in newsrooms. We began by acknowledging the context: print is fading
Time Inc is positioning itself as a willing collaborator in the AI era, with CEO Jessica Sibley making the case for negotiation and integration over litigation or inertia. Speaking at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity th
The launch of the Reuters Digital News Report is always a highlight of the media-gazing year. The latest edition, published on Monday, also marks a key point in the evolution of digital news. For the first time in the US, social media and v
Harvard University has opened up nearly one million digitised books for use in training artificial intelligence models – a move likely to be closely watched by publishers as they negotiate with or sue AI companies over access to copyrighted
A local newspaper in Ohio is turning to artificial intelligence to tackle one of the most common complaints from its readers – poor grammar and spelling. Cleveland.com, part of the Advance Local group, has introduced a new in-house tool cal
The Washington Post is in talks with Substack about a potential collaboration that would allow it to broaden its opinion coverage by tapping into the newsletter platform’s network of independent writers. The move, confirmed by Substack co-f
A new study commissioned by German media rights group Corint Media has reignited debate over how publishers should be compensated for their content in an era of AI-driven search. The report claims Google rightly owes German publishers €1.3
Alexis Tsipras moves closer to relaunching a Left-wing party with Publicis Groupe’s support as Greece prepares to introduce taxation on digital content creators. Concurrently, major investments by GEK TERNA and hospitality groups highlight
Taboola has launched a generative AI answer engine called DeeperDive that aims to help publishers compete with AI-powered search while giving users richer, more contextual responses to their questions. The technology is being adopted in the
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has launched a daily YouTube show, The Daily Blueprint, in what it calls a key part of its digital strategy ahead of the 2026 US midterm elections. The weekday broadcast, hosted by DNC deputy communic
Le Monde Group celebrated its 80th anniversary with record-breaking subscription figures that signal growing public appetite for trusted journalism. In an article published this week, the group’s CEO Louis Dreyfus and his fellow director Jé
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