“I want to start an uncomfortable conversation: Are there too many journalism events?” So said Marcela Kunova, the owner and operator of journalism.co.uk (JUK), last week. She continued: “I just looked at my agenda and JUK events calendar. It’s gone out of hand. Conferences, festivals, summits, workshops, talks, congresses, study tours, awards. Dozens of great events are clustered between April and June and from September to November; sometimes three or five happen at the same time. They are all great – speakers, topics, organisation. I root for all of them. It’s just TOO MUCH.” She asked if anyone else felt…
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Disney-owned 20th Television has struck a multi-year first-look agreement with Vox Media Studios, broadening a relationship that will give both companies room to develop scripted and unscripted projects built around Vox Media’s reporting and podcast brands. The deal is expected to feed into Disney Entertainment Television outlets including Disney+, with…
Why is the news industry so resistant to change? It’s almost impossible to shift focus, reassign resources, introduce new working practices, or change to a new CMS without a hue and cry. This week it has been the BBC’s turn to get it in the neck for what seemed to…
Prince Harry and six other high-profile claimants have lost their High Court case against Associated Newspapers Ltd, publisher of the Daily Mail, in a ruling that is likely to draw a line under the UK’s long-running phone-hacking litigation. Mr Justice Nicklin dismissed all claims against the publisher after an 11-week…
Sky has agreed a £1.6 billion takeover of ITV’s media and entertainment arm in a move that would combine one of Britain’s best-known commercial broadcasters with the pay-TV group owned by Comcast, creating what the companies say will be a stronger domestic rival to Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and…
The Associated Press is pressing ahead with plans to build a production hub in India, even as the move is expected to deepen job losses for its US-based visual journalism teams. In a memo to staff, executive editor Julie Pace said the agency was trying to strengthen its business so…
Getty Images is set to walk away from its $3.7 billion tie-up with Shutterstock after the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority insisted on a remedy the company was unwilling to accept: the sale of Shutterstock’s entire editorial business before completion. According to the CMA’s final ruling on 15 May, the…
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One of Axel Springer’s most prominent German editors has stepped down following an internal inquiry into his conduct at a company Christmas party. Jan Philipp Burgard, 41, who served as editor-in-chief of the centre-right broadsheet Die Welt, left Axel Springer after executives opened an investigation this month into reports that…
Symbolic.ai, an artificial intelligence startup founded by former eBay chief executive Devin Wenig and Ars Technica co-founder Jon Stokes, has struck a commercial partnership with News Corp to deploy its AI-native publishing platform across the media group’s newsrooms, beginning with Dow Jones Newswires, the company said in announcements this week.…
Politico has begun 2026 with a round of newsroom departures, cutting roughly 3% of its global workforce as it reconfigures teams and prepares new products, while the Wall Street Journal announced a separate “strategic restructure” affecting features and weekend staff. The Politico reductions form part of a wider set of…
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In a significant leadership change at Politico, founding editor in chief John F. Harris is stepping away from day-to-day newsroom management, with global editor Matthew Kaminski set to take charge of the US operation. The transition, announced today, signals a generational shift for Politico more than a decade after its…
Shoppers, creators and policymakers are pushing AI makers to build stronger legal guardrails for name, image and likeness use , because when a tool lets you clone a face or voice by default, things get messy fast. Here’s what developers, talent and lawmakers are doing, and why an opt‑in approach…
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