Need some summer reading? This week’s newsletter comes in the form of a book review. Not perhaps a suggestion for the sun lounger, but nevertheless one that every journalist should read. It’s called AI in the News Room and it was written by Martin Schori, former head of the AI Hub at Aftonbladet in Stockholm and now the co-founder of Hint Media. Martin is a journalist turned evangelist for AI in news and his advice is rooted in this newsroom experience. He provides tips for journalists, managers and AI specialists alike, but core to his guidance is the idea that…
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Berlin-based AI startup Beatsquares has raised $2 million (about €1.8 million) in seed funding to expand its platform for automatically repurposing editorial content across multiple digital channels. The round was co-led by IBB Ventures and XTR Capital, with participation from ddvg, Dutch media investor V-Ventures and a group of business…
“I want to start an uncomfortable conversation: Are there too many journalism events?” So said Marcela Kunova, the owner and operator of journalism.co.uk (JUK), last week. She continued: “I just looked at my agenda and JUK events calendar. It’s gone out of hand. Conferences, festivals, summits, workshops, talks, congresses, study…
Disney-owned 20th Television has struck a multi-year first-look agreement with Vox Media Studios, broadening a relationship that will give both companies room to develop scripted and unscripted projects built around Vox Media’s reporting and podcast brands. The deal is expected to feed into Disney Entertainment Television outlets including Disney+, with…
Why is the news industry so resistant to change? It’s almost impossible to shift focus, reassign resources, introduce new working practices, or change to a new CMS without a hue and cry. This week it has been the BBC’s turn to get it in the neck for what seemed to…
Prince Harry and six other high-profile claimants have lost their High Court case against Associated Newspapers Ltd, publisher of the Daily Mail, in a ruling that is likely to draw a line under the UK’s long-running phone-hacking litigation. Mr Justice Nicklin dismissed all claims against the publisher after an 11-week…
Sky has agreed a £1.6 billion takeover of ITV’s media and entertainment arm in a move that would combine one of Britain’s best-known commercial broadcasters with the pay-TV group owned by Comcast, creating what the companies say will be a stronger domestic rival to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and…
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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…
Twenty years after leaving Washington Post and Time to start their own ventures, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen say the bet they made on the internet has permanently dismantled the traditional news industry. In a retrospective column published on Tuesday, the founders of Axios and architects of Politico describe how…
Penske Media Corporation has sued Google in federal court in Manhattan, alleging the company illegally monopolises the digital advertising market and has deprived publishers of billions of dollars in revenue. The case underscores mounting pressure on Google’s ad-tech business as publishers seek damages and structural remedies that could reshape how…
The global news industry is heading into a defining year in 2026, caught between the growing power of agentic artificial intelligence and a creator economy that is reshaping how audiences discover, trust and consume information, according to the latest Journalism, Media and Technology Trends and Predictions report, released this week…
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