“We are still writing like it’s 1957” was the blunt assessment of Mario Garcia, speaking earlier this month at WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress in Marseille. You might dismiss this as hyperbole from some, but Garcia, the Columbia University journalism school legend, is in a better position than most to judge. At 79 years old, he was one of the few delegates – perhaps he was the only one – who could actually remember 1957. He got me thinking about what journalism will look like in 2057, or – given the pace of change we are experiencing – rather earlier,…
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Social media and video networks have surpassed traditional news websites and apps as the primary way people consume news globally, according to the Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026, which was published this week. The annual report, based on surveys across 48 markets, paints a picture of a news ecosystem…
Google is set to challenge a German court ruling that could make it liable for false statements surfaced in its AI Overviews, a decision that may reverberate across the wider artificial intelligence sector. The Munich court said the AI-generated summaries that appear above standard search results amount to Google’s own…
The UK government has confirmed plans to bar social media platforms from offering services to under-16s, in a move ministers say is designed to give children more protection from harmful content and excessive screen time. According to the announcement, the restrictions will apply to “user-to-user platforms” that are built around…
Bloomberg Media has partnered with Cision to make Bloomberg’s journalism available within CisionOne, the media intelligence platform used by corporate communications teams. The deal highlights a broader effort by publishers and intelligence providers to integrate reporting directly into professional workflows, reducing the gap between content consumption and decision-making for enterprise…
At WAN-IFRA’s World News Media Congress in Marseille, Solana Pyne, video director at The New York Times, argued that the traditional distinction between readers, listeners and viewers no longer reflects how audiences consume news. The shift is reshaping how newsrooms organise themselves. As audiences move more fluidly between text, audio…
Gary Lineker’s move from television punditry into podcasting has helped turn Goalhanger into Britain’s fastest-growing private company, according to the latest Sunday Times 100 ranking. Research for the annual list shows the London-based production business posted sales of £37.9 million in 2025, with average annual growth of roughly 321 per…
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Axios is betting that artificial intelligence can do something many publishers have struggled to achieve for years: make local journalism economically viable again. In a conversation on The Media Copilot podcast, Axios chief operating officer Allison Murphy said the company is trying to reduce the cost of producing original local…
Byron Allen has said he still wants to buy The Washington Post, even as he prepares to take control of BuzzFeed and HuffPost in a deal that would dramatically expand his media empire. Speaking to BuzzFeed employees on 19 May, the media entrepreneur said he had once raised the idea…
The difference between American and British journalism is clear in what they choose to display in their newsrooms. Visit any large US newspaper’s offices and you will see a “wall of fame” that commemorates its winners of Pulitzers and other journalism awards. Visit any UK newsroom and you’ll see nothing…
Mediahuis, the acquisitive Belgian publisher with outlets across Europe, has become a founding member of SPUR, an industry coalition set up to influence how journalism is used by artificial intelligence and to push for clearer licensing terms. The Standards for Publisher Usage Rights group is a non-profit, member-funded initiative bringing…
MIT’s decision to close MIT Sloan Management Review after 67 years marks the end of one of the most durable business school brand extensions in publishing. According to the school, the final issue is due in September 2026. It said the publication will be replaced by a wider digital strategy…
BuzzFeed has struck a deal to hand control of the company to media entrepreneur Byron Allen in a $120 million transaction that could reshape the troubled digital publisher’s future. According to a filing and company announcement on Monday, Allen Family Digital, the family office affiliate of Allen, will buy 40…
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