What can news publishers learn from the own goal scored last week by Fifa? For anyone who has been taking a summer holiday from the news or instinctively switches off when football is mentioned, The Times of London revealed that sport’s global governing body was seeking investors to buy a minority stake in its tournaments, including the World Cup. Those shares could later be traded on the open market. Unsurprisingly, many in the footballing world were aghast at the idea that Fifa, a Swiss non-profit, would now have investors, and American ones with ties to President Donald Trump at that.…
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The surest catalyst for change in a news organisation is a crisis. When things are going well – or at least not too badly – there is always the temptation to defend what you have, rather than risk something new. At the World Cup, England showed how limiting a strategy…
The South China Morning Post (SCMP) has unveiled a redesign of both its print newspaper and digital platforms as it seeks to keep pace with changing reading habits and an increasingly AI-driven media environment. The revamp is aimed at making the title feel more useful to readers who want fast…
People Inc said its digital business extended its run of growth in the second quarter of 2026, helped by higher licensing income, AI-related partnerships, events and social media products, even as core traffic remained under pressure from changes in search. The company reported its 11th straight quarter of digital revenue…
Hearst has agreed to buy The Walt Disney Company’s half-share in A+E Global Media for about $1.2 billion in cash, giving the privately held media group full control of a television business that includes A&E, Lifetime and the History Channel, according to Reuters. The sale, announced this week, is expected…
Byron Allen has begun a sharp overhaul of BuzzFeed, cutting about 180 jobs and contract roles across BuzzFeed, HuffPost and Tasty in what amounts to roughly 35% of the workforce. The reductions, disclosed in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, are the first major restructuring since Allen’s…
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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…
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…
The News Media Association has chosen Theo Bamber as its next chief executive, placing a policy specialist with experience in the creative industries at the helm of the UK’s newspaper trade body at a moment of intense pressure over AI, copyright and the economics of news. Bamber is currently chief…
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…
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.…
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