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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WAN-IFRA is entering 2026 with an explicit reset: a tighter focus on impact, heavier investment in artificial intelligence and audience development, and a push to convert its expanded scale into tangible value for members as a new chief executive begins his tenure. With publishers facing accelerating technological change and sustained…
Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, has declared that the era when photographs or video could be taken at face value is over, arguing that advances in artificial intelligence have broken the basic visual trust that once underpinned social media. The warning comes from the executive in charge of one of…
Linda Henry, chief executive of Boston Globe Media, has used a full-page year-end message in the print edition of The Boston Globe to outline priorities for 2026, pledging deeper neighbourhood reporting and broader reach across New England. The letter sets a public agenda for how one of the country’s most…
By 2050, consuming the news may involve screens that are not really screens, AI briefings delivered through humanlike interfaces or even, as one independent publisher put it, a chip implanted in the brain. Those possibilities emerged from a wide-ranging forecast by Columbia Journalism Review, which convened senior editors, broadcasters and…
A deal to restructure TikTok’s US business looks likely to head off a long-threatened ban by shifting operational control to American investors while leaving parent company ByteDance with a minority stake. The agreement was first reported by Axios. ByteDance has signed binding agreements to place TikTok’s US operations into a…
Dow Jones as hired M. Scott Havens as its chief growth officer, the company said. Havens is due to start in January. The appointment signals Dow Jones’ intent to accelerate growth across its digital and consumer businesses at a time when legacy publishers are under pressure to expand subscriptions and…
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