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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The Poynter Institute for Media Studies celebrated its golden anniversary on 10 November, honouring half a century of shaping journalism around the world. Born of the vision of Nelson Poynter, the editor and owner of the then St Petersburg Times, the institute was created to safeguard editorial independence by placing…
Revenue and operating profits at The Telegraph held steady in 2024 despite ongoing turmoil over who owns the paper. Newly published accounts from Press Acquisitions Limited, the parent company of Telegraph Media Group and the Chelsea Magazine Company, show a 1.2% rise in revenue to £279.4 million for the year…
The BBC is facing one of the gravest leadership crises in its history after the resignations of Director-General Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness. Both stepped down following a storm over the editing of Donald Trump’s speech in a Panorama documentary, accused of misleading viewers about the former US…
News Corp has posted better-than-expected first-quarter fiscal 2026 results, lifted by growth in its Dow Jones and digital real estate segments. Revenue rose 2% year-on-year to $2.14 billion, surpassing Wall Street’s $2.10 billion estimate. The Dow Jones division – home to the Wall Street Journal and Barron’s – was the…
Perplexity, the AI search engine often criticised for its approach to content use, has signed a multi-year licensing agreement with Getty Images. The deal gives Perplexity access to Getty’s vast library of editorial and creative images, integrating them directly into its AI-powered search tools via Getty’s API. It marks a…
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