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 like that. Indeed, when I worked at The Times the displays on the walls had a slightly different tenor. Among those “celebrated” were Kim Philby, a former sub-editor at the paper whose notorious career as a Russian spy led to many deaths, and Boris Johnson, a former trainee reporter at…
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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…
James Murdoch is said to be in advanced talks to acquire Vox Media’s New York Magazine and its podcast arm through Lupa Systems, his investment vehicle, according to the Wall Street Journal. The potential transaction would hand Murdoch control of one of the best-known names in American magazine publishing, along…
Strong digital growth pushed The New York Times Company to 13.1 million subscribers in the first quarter, keeping the publisher on track to hit its target of 15 million subscribers by the end of 2027. The company added about 310,000 digital-only subscribers during the quarter and has averaged roughly 330,000…
Newsweek’s turnaround under chief executive Dev Pragad has been driven less by internal restructuring than by a series of partnerships that helped rebuild the publisher’s audience, technology and commercial business. When Pragad took over, the company was carrying more than $25 million in debt and struggling with declining readership. Rather…
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The Washington Post is eliminating roughly a third of its newsroom in a restructuring that will close the sports section and books desk, suspend the paper’s flagship podcast and sharply reduce foreign and metro reporting. The cuts, announced to staff by executive editor Matt Murray, include the dismissal of the…
YouTube is doubling down on a strategy that increasingly places it in direct competition with news publishers and broadcasters, positioning creators as full-scale production operations while expanding commerce and artificial intelligence across the platform. In his 2026 priorities letter, YouTube chief executive Neal Mohan outlined what the company describes as…
The Christian Science Monitor is attempting a careful revival of a reputation built over more than a century, even as it confronts steep declines in audience and staff that mirror the wider contraction of legacy news organisations. The Monitor represents one of the longest-running experiments in values-driven journalism in the…
Amid a saturation of real-time coverage of Operation Metro Surge — the largest federal immigration enforcement deployment in recent memory — the Minnesota Star Tribune is trying to stand apart. Its editors say the paper is deliberately slowing its reporting to verify what is circulating online, even as videos and…
Leading Danish publishers are showing how audience-centric strategies and organisational innovation can help newsrooms stay relevant and financially healthy in a turbulent digital media era, according to a report from WAN-IFRA on their recent study tour in the country late last year. The findings distil five key lessons from three…
About 60 journalists on The Washington Post’s foreign desk have appealed directly to the newspaper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, urging him to protect international reporting as management weighs a new round of cost cuts that staff fear could be extensive but remain unconfirmed. In a letter sent on Sunday, foreign staff…
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