By 2050, consuming the news may involve screens that are not really screens, AI briefings delivered through humanlike interfaces or even, as one independent publisher put it, a chip implanted in the brain. Those possibilities emerged from a wide-ranging forecast by Columbia Journalism Review, which convened senior editors, broadcasters and independent publishers to imagine what journalism might look like a quarter-century from now. Why it matters is that the participants largely agreed on one point: the news industry is heading towards a stark divide. A small number of powerful global brands are likely to dominate at one end, while a…
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A deal to restructure TikTok’s US business looks likely to head off a long-threatened ban by shifting operational control to American investors while leaving parent company ByteDance with a minority stake. The agreement was first reported by Axios. ByteDance has signed binding agreements to place TikTok’s US operations into a…
Dow Jones as hired M. Scott Havens as its chief growth officer, the company said. Havens is due to start in January. The appointment signals Dow Jones’ intent to accelerate growth across its digital and consumer businesses at a time when legacy publishers are under pressure to expand subscriptions and…
Axios CEO Jim VandeHei issued a stark warning to the media industry this week, declaring America’s information ecosystem “badly broken, deeply polluted and increasingly dangerous.” In a memo outlining the company’s strategic vision for 2026, VandeHei argued that society has officially entered a “post-news era” where traditional reporting no longer…
Axios CEO Jim VandeHei issued a stark warning to the media industry this week, declaring America’s information ecosystem “badly broken, deeply polluted and increasingly dangerous.” In a memo outlining the company’s strategic vision for 2026, VandeHei argued that society has officially entered a “post-news era” where traditional reporting no longer…
Meta has begun piloting an Instagram app designed for television, bringing Reels to Amazon Fire TV devices in the United States and marking a further push to expand short-form video beyond smartphones. This positions Instagram more directly in the living-room viewing battle, where YouTube has already established a strong presence…
Google is testing a more granular form of personalisation for its Discover feed that allows signed-in users to tell the service, in plain language, what they want to see and what they do not. The test signals a shift toward explicit, AI-driven control of recommendation systems, a change that could…
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Brian McGrory will return as editor of the Boston Globe in January, the company said on Monday, marking a comeback to the newspaper where he spent more than three decades and previously led the newsroom from 2012 until early 2023. His reappointment offers clues about how this leading metro paper…
Piers Morgan is close to securing about $30 million in new funding in an attempt to turn his YouTube programme Piers Morgan Uncensored into a global media business. The move would value the operation at just under £100 million before new money and further cement the shift of high-profile commentators…
Italy’s media sector has been jolted by confirmation that Exor, the Agnelli-Elkann family holding company, is in exclusive talks to sell most of the GEDI publishing group to Greece’s Antenna Group. The prospect of a sale has triggered strikes, newsroom protests and calls for government intervention over the future of…
Yahoo is widening its use of artificial intelligence in news delivery with the launch of an afternoon audio digest that personalises headlines for each listener. The move signals how major publishers are starting to treat AI-generated audio as a core distribution format rather than an experiment. The new briefing, called…
Australia’s world-first ban on social media accounts for under-16s came into force on 10 December 2025, requiring major platforms to remove existing accounts held by younger users and block new registrations. But early signs show how quickly the policy is running into technical and human obstacles. Children have been able…
UK adults are now spending more than four and a half hours online each day, a record driven by rising use of artificial intelligence and an ever more mobile-first way of living. The finding, from Ofcom’s Online Nation 2025 report, shows how quickly generative AI has shifted from novelty to…
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