The Wall Street Journal is preparing to enter the growing market for sports-business coverage with a new vertical aimed at executives, investors and owners looking at sport as an asset class. According to Axios, the launch will be marked in July with an invitation-only event in New York called WSJ Sports: The Next Sports Economy, timed to coincide with the World Cup final. It will address the impact of streaming on TV rights deals, prediction markets and technological breakthroughs. The report said the initiative forms part of Dow Jones’ wider push to widen its consumer subscription base across titles including…
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Forbes is pushing deeper into wine with a new content vertical, e-commerce operation and membership programme, as it looks to build revenue streams it can control more directly. The move — first reported by Digiday — reflects a wider shift among publishers away from reliance on search and social traffic.…
Theo Bamber, from the Music Publishers’ Association, takes over as NMA chief executive Industry faces critical issues over AI misinformation and economic sustainability Bamber aims to strengthen trust and legislative gains in the UK news sector The News Media Association has chosen Theo Bamber as its next chief executive, placing…
A Baltimore-area nonprofit has agreed to take over the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, in a deal that should prevent the 240-year-old newspaper from shutting down next month. According to the Post-Gazette and a joint announcement from the parties, Block Communications will transfer the paper’s assets to the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism,…
News Corp Australia is bringing Glamour back to local audiences with a digital-first Australian edition of the long-running fashion and culture title, in a move that underlines the publisher’s continued push into lifestyle brands for younger readers. Glamour Australia is due to debut in June as a social, video and…
The UK government has cleared the way for Axel Springer to acquire Telegraph Media Group, removing the most significant political obstacle to the deal and marking a decisive moment for the future of one of Britain’s best-known newspapers. The decision ends months of uncertainty over foreign ownership of a major…
David Hoffmann, the billionaire investor now steering US news group Lee Enterprises, says he has a plan to rescue local newspapers: strip the business to its essentials, double down on community reporting and keep the numbers in the black. The approach speaks to a central question for the industry: whether…
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CNN has appointed Chris Wiggins, the New York Times veteran who has led that paper’s data science work for more than a decade, to a newly created post overseeing machine learning and AI science. The move was disclosed in an internal memo to staff on Monday. Wiggins will supervise efforts…
A federal judge on Monday dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by Donald Trump against The Wall Street Journal over an article describing a birthday letter linked to Jeffrey Epstein. The ruling underscores the high bar public figures face when suing news organisations , and reinforces protections for reporting that shows…
CNN has promoted Alex MacCallum to chief operating officer, giving one of its key digital executives a broader remit as the network pushes harder into streaming and subscriber growth. Mark Thompson, CNN’s chief executive, told staff in a memo that MacCallum had already played a central part in reshaping the…
This first appeared in our weekly newsletter Editor’s picks. Sign up here I was reminded the other day that change can be almost invisible to those who are in the middle of it. The occasion for this realisation was a visit inspired by my daughter’s history studies to an exhibition…
California’s local news crisis has returned to the centre of state budget negotiations, with a coalition of publishers and advocates calling for a significant increase in public funding to stabilise the sector. The proposal frames local journalism as public infrastructure — not simply a struggling industry but a civic resource…
The Boston Globe is introducing a subscriber-only newsletter focused on the intersection of business and politics in Massachusetts, as it looks to add value for paying readers and sharpen its local coverage. The move shows how regional publishers are using newsletters not just for distribution but as premium products —…
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