The Washington Post is attempting to stabilise its newsroom after February’s sweeping layoffs by quietly bringing back some of the journalists it had just let go, a sign of how quickly the impact of the cuts became apparent. According to reporting by the Columbia Journalism Review, editors began contacting dismissed reporters in March, asking some to return on what the union calls a “delayed layoff” basis. Under that arrangement, staff resume work until July, with severance deferred until September if they are not kept on permanently. By 21 April, the Washington-Baltimore News Guild said 15 newsroom employees had been offered…
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Us Weekly is cutting close to half its workforce and shutting its New York office, in a sharp retrenchment that underscores the strain on legacy magazine brands as print advertising continues to erode. As audiences and advertisers move online, titles built on mass-market print circulation are struggling to adapt, forcing…
Norway is preparing to introduce one of Europe’s toughest child-safety measures online, with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre saying legislation will be brought forward by the end of 2026 to bar under-16s from social media. The proposal signals a shift from platform self-regulation to state enforcement, following similar action in…
When Meredith Kopit Levien speaks, the news industry does well to listen. The CEO of the New York Times has been an exemplary steward of a news brand whose success is self-evident and doesn’t need repeating here. Earlier this month she was interviewed by Ben Thompson for Stratechery, a great…
Rheinische Post has been treating artificial intelligence less as a standalone technology project than as part of a wider effort to build a stronger digital business, with a particular emphasis on subscriber growth and internal capability. Margret Seeger, who was appointed Group Head of AI in October 2024, said at…
Deccan Herald has turned to artificial intelligence to solve a familiar newsroom problem: how to give readers a quick, visual version of a story without adding a heavy production burden for editors. The Karnataka-based publisher has built a CMS-integrated infographic tool that converts finished articles into structured summaries with a…
Andreessen Horowitz, the Silicon Valley investment firm, has backed a new media venture, MTS – short for Monitoring the Situation – in the latest sign of tech’s push into news and commentary built around X. The project, unveiled on Monday by Erik Torenberg, aims to track technology, finance, geopolitics and…
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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…
Nearly half of US consumers have used TikTok as a search engine, according to a recent study by Adobe, highlighting a sharp shift in how people find information online. As audiences increasingly begin their queries inside social video apps, discovery is becoming more visual, personalised and platform-specific – challenging the…
Members of the Writers Guild of America East at HuffPost have unanimously approved a new three-year contract that pairs wage gains with detailed guardrails on artificial intelligence. The agreement comes as a number of US newsrooms negotiate collective bargaining agreements and as AI becomes a flashpoint at the table. By…
Sometimes the context around a conversation reshapes its meaning. That was evident at last Friday’s Good Leadership Breakfast when Steve Grove, CEO and publisher of the Minnesota Star Tribune, addressed a room grappling with unrest and uncertainty in local media. Grove — whose career includes senior roles at Google and…
Retrieval-Augmented Generation — or RAG — is changing how information is surfaced online. By pairing large language models with external data sources, it turns AI systems from static text predictors into tools that consult documents and databases before responding. For news publishers, that shift could redefine what it means to…
Leaders from India’s newsrooms joined international experts in Bengaluru last week for WAN-IFRA’s AI in Media forum, outlining a business-led approach to artificial intelligence that pairs operational gains with tighter editorial controls. The gathering reflects a shift in tone. Indian publishers are moving beyond pilots and proofs of concept, seeking…
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