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 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…
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…
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