AI is not only changing how journalistic content is produced but also how people access that content. For at least the past year, many news publishers have seen visitor numbers to their websites fall dramatically as AI-related summaries are increasingly replacing traditional search results. As users change their consumption habits to look for direct answers…
Earlier this year, Yonatan Levi left his home country of Israel to observe the Hungarian election. Levi, a scholar at the center-left think tank Molad, had traveled with a group of parliamentarians and activists to study how opposition leader Péter Magyar was running a winning campaign against an authoritarian prime minister. This was, in their…
At our recent Frankfurt AI Forum, Alban Mazrekaj, Head of Content Technology and Format Development, said the focus is on improving internal workflows. While AI is often associated with chat interfaces and audience-facing products, he emphasised using it to “improve the lives of our editors.” With a large volume of historical material already digitised, the…
The facts underlying Hencely v. Fluor Corporation, a case the Supreme Court handed down on Wednesday, are horrible and tragic. During a 2016 Veterans Day celebration on Bagram Airfield, a US military base in Afghanistan, a suicide bomber named Ahmad Nayeb detonated an explosion that killed five people and wounded 17 more. One of the…
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: The Trump administration is reportedly hoping to send Afghan refugees to Congo — or back to the country they fled from. What’s happening?…
The answer was not to change the story itself, but to build a tool that could generate structured, visual summaries directly within the CMS. To aid with that, Deccan Herald joined the 2025 edition of Newsroom AI Catalyst, a WAN-IFRA accelerator programme in partnership with OpenAI that supports news publishers with their strategic AI initiatives….
By Selma Stern Twenty years ago, the media industry was the first to get flattened by the internet. Print advertising collapsed. Distribution went from a physical monopoly to an open commodity. The audience relationship, once mediated by nothing but the mailbox, was suddenly owned by platforms that publishers didn’t control. The rest of the economy…
Are the US and Iran on the verge of a full peace agreement — or a return to all-out war? On the one hand, President Donald Trump has told multiple reporters in recent days that Iran has effectively agreed to all US conditions and that talks are going well, with Vice President JD Vance set…
As publishers position themselves for the AI future, two priorities should guide them. First, they need to invest in building a strong brand and relationships with their customers. And they must differentiate themselves from AI by being human, approachable, and having an editorial voice. This was the advice from Margret Seeger, Group Head of AI…
The politics of Israel have shifted inside the Democratic Party — and staunch defenders of the Jewish nation are growing scarcer and scarcer. On Wednesday, 40 out of 47 Democratic senators voted to block a military sale to Israel — far higher opposition than had been previously seen on any similar measure. It was the…