Sundar Pichai has offered one of his clearest public accounts yet of how generative AI has forced Google to reorganise internally, rethink Search and confront growing tension with publishers whose businesses depend on referral traffic. Speaking to Nilay Patel on The Verge’s Decoder podcast in a conversation recorded after Google I/O 2026, the Alphabet chief executive described the period following ChatGPT’s arrival as requiring a wholesale organisational reset rather than a simple product update. Google had the underlying technology, he suggested, but not the structure to move fast enough. The interview showed Google openly acknowledging several pressures at once: that…
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Australia’s ABC has chosen Reuters executive Simon Robinson as its new director of news and current affairs, ending days of speculation after the broadcaster’s surprise leadership change. Robinson, currently deputy to Reuters’ editor-in-chief, will take up the post in September. The ABC said he would become its next Director of…
Three developments last week underscored how fragmented AI governance has become: CNN sued Perplexity AI over alleged copying of its journalism; OpenAI published a governance framework tied to emerging EU and California rules; and the legal battle over state AI regulation in the US continued to intensify. The disputes show…
Pope Leo XIV has thrust the Vatican into the centre of the global debate over artificial intelligence, using his first encyclical to argue that the technology must be governed by law, oversight and human judgement rather than left to market forces or military competition. Entitled Magnifica humanitas — “Magnificent Humanity”…
Gary Lineker’s media company is expanding beyond podcast production after helping launch Goalhanger Ventures, a new investment arm aimed at backing creator-led media businesses. The move marks a broader shift for Goalhanger as it seeks to build influence across the wider creator economy, not just podcasting. The company has grown…
Jeff Bezos sometimes makes agreeing with him very difficult. This was the case earlier this week when he said in an interview with CNBC that President Donald Trump was “more mature” in his second term than his first and that Amazon’s commission of the Melania documentary was in no way…
News podcasting is moving decisively beyond the old audio-only model, with video, personality-led chat shows and creator-style distribution reshaping how publishers make, package and monetise their work, according to a new Reuters Institute report by Nic Newman. The study, The Changing Shape and New Economics of News Podcasting, argues that…
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WAN-IFRA has unveiled the NextGen AI Leaders Programme, a 12-week initiative to help young media executives lead responsible AI adoption and strengthen newsroom management. The tuition-free scheme reflects WAN-IFRA’s effort to back a more diverse generation of leaders and narrow the innovation gap between well-funded global publishers and smaller, mid-sized…
The Washington Post lost more than $100 million last, following a $77 million deficit the previous year, according to reporting by the Wall Street Journal. The losses help explain the paper’s decision to cut about 30% of its workforce and underscore the scale of the reset under way at one…
Danish digital publisher Zetland is expanding across Europe, betting that a tight focus on depth and community can succeed beyond its home market. It is one of the clearest examples of a membership-funded newsroom built around a distinct editorial voice. With 40,000 paying members in Denmark, it is now exporting…
Politico will launch in Australia later this year, extending its model of high-speed reporting and subscription newsletters into a new market. The move will test whether Politico’s premium, insider-focused model can travel beyond Washington, Brussels and London into a smaller, concentrated media ecosystem long dominated by two local giants. The…
For the first time since its founding in 1872, The Boston Globe suspended daily print production because of a winter storm, ending a 153-year run of publishing through pandemics, power outages and previous record blizzards. The decision underscores both the scale of the storm and the changing economics of print.…
Kevin Delaney, editor in chief of The San Francisco Standard, has appointed Fleet Street veteran John Mulholland as managing editor, according to a staff memo published by Talking Biz News. Mulholland will oversee day-to-day news operations, working with section editors on breaking coverage and long-form journalism. He will report to…
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