One of Axel Springer’s most prominent German editors has stepped down following an internal inquiry into his conduct at a company Christmas party. Jan Philipp Burgard, 41, who served as editor-in-chief of the centre-right broadsheet Die Welt, left Axel Springer after executives opened an investigation this month into reports that he had behaved inappropriately toward female employees at an alcohol-fuelled December party. During the inquiry, Burgard, who was only appointed editor last summer, was asked whether he had kissed female colleagues. He reportedly acknowledged drinking at the event but said he could not recall whether the specific allegations were true.…
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Symbolic.ai, an artificial intelligence startup founded by former eBay chief executive Devin Wenig and Ars Technica co-founder Jon Stokes, has struck a commercial partnership with News Corp to deploy its AI-native publishing platform across the media group’s newsrooms, beginning with Dow Jones Newswires, the company said in announcements this week.…
Politico has begun 2026 with a round of newsroom departures, cutting roughly 3% of its global workforce as it reconfigures teams and prepares new products, while the Wall Street Journal announced a separate “strategic restructure” affecting features and weekend staff. The Politico reductions form part of a wider set of…
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In a significant leadership change at Politico, founding editor in chief John F. Harris is stepping away from day-to-day newsroom management, with global editor Matthew Kaminski set to take charge of the US operation. The transition, announced today, signals a generational shift for Politico more than a decade after its…
Shoppers, creators and policymakers are pushing AI makers to build stronger legal guardrails for name, image and likeness use , because when a tool lets you clone a face or voice by default, things get messy fast. Here’s what developers, talent and lawmakers are doing, and why an opt‑in approach…
Cloudflare is expanding its push to make paid access to web content easier to implement, updating its open x402 payment-gated proxy template as part of a broader effort to normalise micropayments for publishers and developers. The update strengthens Cloudflare’s case that small, per-request payments can work at web scale as…
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President Donald Trump has announced a significant development in the ongoing negotiations to bring TikTok’s American operations under U.S. ownership, revealing that prominent figures from the corporate and media world—including Lachlan Murdoch, Larry Ellison, and Michael Dell—would be involved as investors in a proposed deal. The deal aims to transfer…
ABC News and news.com.au have solidified their positions as the leading news websites in Australia, creating a significant gap between themselves and their closest competitors. According to the Ipsos iris ranking report, which extrapolates national readership from data collected across 8,000 devices, ABC News attracted over 13 million monthly readers…
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) is marking the seventh anniversary of its premium subscription service, FAZ+. This milestone is celebrated by offering readers a special rate to access a broad range of high-quality journalism. The service, which is recognised for its comprehensive coverage, includes exclusive international reports from numerous foreign…
Recent data from Cloudflare, a major cloud services provider specialising in enhancing website security, reveals a striking reality about the current state of internet traffic: approximately one-third of online activity is generated by bots. These automated programs perform a variety of functions behind the scenes—crawling websites to index content, executing…
The Italian daily La Repubblica has joined a growing number of publishers partnering with The New York Times to offer bundled subscription deals. Under the agreement, subscribers to La Repubblica gain full digital access to both its content and the NYT’s for an annual fee of €69. The bundle gives…
OpenAI has announced significant new measures aimed at enhancing the safety of teenage users on ChatGPT, following a highly publicised lawsuit triggered by the tragic death of a 16-year-old who had prolonged interactions with the chatbot. The case has intensified scrutiny on how generative AI platforms manage mental health risks,…
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