For Christian Bredlow, AI isn’t publishing’s first disruption – and it certainly won’t be its last. Having spent years leading digital initiatives within the media industry, he believes the lessons publishers learned during the shift from print to digital are just as relevant today as they were two decades ago. Today, AI is prompting organisations…
By Bihag Karnani As a senior product manager at Google, Bihag Karnani oversees the development of Reader Revenue Manager – a digital subscription service designed specifically for media companies. On average, he meets with approximately 50 to 70 publishers during the course of a year. In Part 1, we examined first-party data and habit formation…
The AI industry’s investors and critics don’t agree on much. But many in each camp share at least one basic conviction: America’s top labs are about to make a killing. Capital markets have signaled their faith in Anthropic and OpenAI’s impending hyper-profitability, valuing each at nearly $1 trillion. Many of Silicon Valley’s progressive adversaries also…
This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps you understand the most compelling news and stories of the day. Subscribe here. During his campaign to become mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani famously vowed that he’d arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the next time he visited the Big Apple. This…
There was a backup plan for getting oil out of the Middle East. We may need another one. After staying relatively quiet for much of the Iran war, Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a major escalation last last week by carrying out attacks on Saudi tankers and oil infrastructure, threatening a return to the campaign against…
Last week, the Trump administration announced a landmark civilian nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia. The deal would allow the kingdom to develop nuclear power using American technology and could eventually pave the way for uranium enrichment on Saudi soil. But the agreement must first undergo congressional review — and survive President Donald Trump’s social…
By Pierre de Villiers These truly are extraordinary times at the 103-year-old legacy brand. Wilson has stepped back into the fold at a time when the magazine’s bold Time 3.0 strategy is in full swing. Spearheaded by Jessica Sibley, who took over as CEO in 2022, the new business model has taken the magazine from…
This article is from a series we are publishing in advance of the FIPP World Congress in Madrid, 12-15 October. By Joanna Cummings For Kylie McCoy, Vice President, Strategic Marketing at Newsweek, the future of brand partnerships is less about selling ad space and more about understanding what a partner is trying to achieve. As…
Described as a year of “forced maturity,” 2025 was the hardest year yet for Ukraine’s independent local newsrooms – harder, by their own account, than any point since the full-scale invasion began. Only 13% of newsrooms surveyed in the Media Development Foundation’s latest sustainability study – Who Will be Reporting the News Tomorrow? – called…
“Technology now changes exponentially, but organisations change quite slowly” – Gard Steiro’s warning, delivered during a recent webinar on the Future Newsrooms Study 2026, sums up the tension facing the news industry today. As generative AI makes generic content trivial to produce, a panel of senior editors and strategists argue the real opportunity lies elsewhere:…