At WAN-IFRA’s World News Media Congress in Marseille, Solana Pyne, video director at The New York Times, argued that the traditional distinction between readers, listeners and viewers no longer reflects how audiences consume news. The shift is reshaping how newsrooms organise themselves. As audiences move more fluidly between text, audio and video, publishers are increasingly treating video not as a way to support written journalism but as a reporting discipline in its own right. Pyne said audience behaviour is becoming more mixed across formats. While last year’s Reuters Institute Digital News Report suggests reading remains the preferred way for many…
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Gary Lineker’s move from television punditry into podcasting has helped turn Goalhanger into Britain’s fastest-growing private company, according to the latest Sunday Times 100 ranking. Research for the annual list shows the London-based production business posted sales of £37.9 million in 2025, with average annual growth of roughly 321 per…
Britain’s competition watchdog has ordered Google to give publishers greater control over how their material is used in the company’s AI-powered search products, in a move it described as a world first. The Competition and Markets Authority said publishers will have to be given practical tools to stop their content…
Meta has criticised Australia’s plan to make large digital platforms contribute financially to news organisations, arguing the proposal would entrench publisher dependence on technology companies rather than help create sustainable media businesses. The dispute highlights a broader debate over how governments should support journalism in the digital age. While Australia…
The Guardian has seen a sharp rise in reader-funded income and international revenue over the past decade, with editor-in-chief Katharine Viner saying more than 80% of its income from outside the UK is a phenomenon that did not exist 10 years ago. Speaking at the WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress…
A group of former National World executives has launched Profenx, a new media technology company that aims to combine AI-driven publishing tools with creator-led content businesses. The launch comes as publishers grapple with declining search traffic, pressure on advertising revenues and the rapid growth of independent creators. Profenx is positioning…
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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…
European lawmakers are moving to introduce some of the world’s toughest online child protection rules, proposing a minimum age of 16 to use social media, video-sharing platforms and AI companions without parental consent. The plan, advanced by the European Parliament’s Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, reflects deepening concern over…
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