Australia has unveiled a new plan to push Meta, Google and TikTok into paying more directly for the journalism their platforms distribute, in a move that could bring in up to A$250 million a year for newsrooms. According to draft legislation released by the government, the measure would be introduced to parliament by July 2 and would impose a 2.25% levy on the Australian revenue of large digital platforms that do not reach commercial agreements with news publishers. The idea is to create a financial incentive for the companies to keep paying for news rather than simply carrying it for…
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Yahoo Media Group is expanding into specialist coverage with a free sports business hub that brings together Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance, aiming to give readers a single destination for reporting on the money, media and investment forces shaping sport. The move reflects the shift in digital publishing towards bundled,…
Hang around in this world long enough and you learn that what was once a new idea will soon become an old idea, and then, later, be resurrected as a new idea once more. There’s a case in point in journalism right now: reducing story count. Or, as people were…
Hearst is recasting itself around data and artificial intelligence as the 140-year-old group seeks to make its portfolio faster, more connected and better suited to digital change. As AI tools spread, the competitive edge is moving away from raw scale towards how effectively companies structure, govern and apply their data…
Time Studios is teaming up with Piers Morgan’s Uncensored on a new interview series, extending the Time brand’s push deeper into premium video and long-form storytelling. The move fits with a broader strategy at Time Studios, which has positioned itself as an Emmy Award-winning producer across television, film, audio and…
Vox Media is weighing a potential sale of parts of its business, with SB Nation emerging as one of its most commercially attractive assets. The interest highlights a broader dynamic in digital publishing: scale alone is no longer enough. Buyers are looking for properties that combine loyal audiences with sustainable…
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…
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The way users phrase their questions to AI chatbots could affect the accuracy of the answers they receive, according to new research that adds nuance to the emerging science of prompt engineering. A study entitled Mind Your Tone: Investigating How Prompt Politeness Affects LLM Accuracy tested 50 questions written in…
Artificial intelligence assistants from some of the world’s biggest tech firms are struggling to tell the truth about the news, according to a wide-ranging new study by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC. The research, conducted with 22 public media organisations across 18 countries and in 14 languages,…
When Elon Musk acquired Twitter in 2022 and rebranded it as X, one of his earliest algorithmic priorities was to keep users on the platform. Posts containing external links — once central to Twitter’s role as a hub for news and commentary — were quietly downranked. For journalists and writers,…
In an era when newsrooms chase clicks with relentless publishing schedules, The Irish Times has acknowledged that it has adopted a publishing trend that few big organisations talk about publicly, but many practice behind the scenes: it deliberately started publishing fewer stories. The decision, taken two years ago, was rooted…
Millions of internet users worldwide experienced a sudden and widespread digital blackout on October 20, 2025, caused by a significant outage in Amazon Web Services (AWS), the dominant cloud infrastructure provider powering a substantial portion of the modern internet. This disruption affected a vast array of online services, including banking…
The Wikimedia Foundation, the organisation behind Wikipedia, has reported a significant decline in traffic to its site, which it attributes to the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots and AI-generated summaries. According to Marshall Miller, Wikimedia’s Chief Product Officer, the surge in AI technologies has altered how people access…
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