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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Five weeks after The Washington Post dismantled its sports desk, ESPN has hired six of the newspaper’s former reporters, a move that follows a similar mass hiring by The Athletic, which is part of The New York Times. The hires reflect a broader shift in sports journalism, as legacy newspapers…
I did something I do very rarely this week: I turned on our television at home in the morning. The reason, unsurprisingly, was the war in Iran. My goal was to get up to date with all the latest news. And I did. If nothing else, rolling TV news stations…
German publishing group Axel Springer has agreed a £575 million deal to acquire The Telegraph, a transaction that would bring an end to one of the longest-running sales processes in Fleet Street. The agreement, first reported by the Financial Times, effectively ends a rival bid from Daily Mail and General…
Artificial intelligence may be transforming newsrooms, but its most valuable role is not writing articles. According to Srinivasan Ramani, deputy national editor at The Hindu, its real power lies in helping journalists process and structure data at a scale no reporting team could manage alone. Speaking at WAN-IFRA’s 2026 AI…
Axel Springer has agreed to acquire Bisnow, adding the events and editorial business to a new US-focused division that will sit alongside Morning Brew. The deal underscores Axel Springer’s drive to expand its business-to-business footprint in the US, betting on events and specialist newsletters as more resilient revenue streams at…
News Corp’s CEO outlines a strategy combining licensing and litigation to protect journalism content The company has secured multi-million dollar deals with tech giants like Meta and OpenAI for AI training data Thomson emphasises the importance of reliable news sources for AI development and warns against unauthorised use News Corp…
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