Right now AI disruption in the media often feels like a game of Whack-a-Mole. Organisations, or individuals within them, respond when a challenge or a new tool pops up. I analysed 725 cases of AI adoption by media outlets in 80 countries in recent years and discovered that most of them attempt to automate single…
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: Hi readers, big news broke just after yesterday’s newsletter went out: The US and Iran reached a temporary ceasefire agreement, averting President Donald…
When dmg media set up its Innovation Hub in early 2025, its founding team of four set out to create proof-of-concept products in a sandbox environment to explore potential AI use cases. Their work produced valuable insights into working with AI, and eventually the team wanted to start scaling up some of these experiments and…
After five weeks of muddled messaging, President Donald Trump finally addressed the nation on Wednesday night to make the case for his war on Iran. That message was…still muddled. He did not articulate a clear exit plan from the conflict, fobbed the Strait of Hormuz problem off on other countries, and denied that regime change…
Last month, when it was announced that Adeyeye Joseph had been elected to the Board of WAN-IFRA’s World Editors Forum, the accolades and acknowledgements from colleagues and peers on social media gave a glimpse into a career shaped as much by conviction as by credentials. From beat reporter to editor of Nigeria’s biggest-selling newspapers; to…
How closely does President Donald Trump’s war in Iran compare with America’s last conflict in the Middle East? Both the Iran war and the 2003 US invasion of Iraq have paired conventional American military dominance with shifting, ambiguous objectives. And both feature an American president desperate to declare the mission accomplished. “I do have this…
By Ladina HeimgartnerPresident of WAN-IFRA and CEO Ringier Media Switzerland This is not an abstract industry problem. We see it across our industry. Media companies have discovered AI as a cost cutter – but their biggest cost trap is themselves. This creates a structural mismatch: We produce what is easy to produce – not necessarily…
For someone who claims to be unconcerned about the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump seems increasingly desperate to open it. In a Truth Social post over the weekend that was extreme even by his standards, Trump instructed Iran to “open the fuckin’ strait” by this Tuesday or he would make good on earlier threats…
One of the key unresolved issues in the AI era is the need for a fair, scalable system for licensing and compensating publishers for their content that is used by AI systems, said moderator Ezra Eeman in welcoming participants to a recent AI in Media WAN-IFRA webinar on this subject. Speaker John Boyden described how…
A surprising quirk of the Trump administration is that every so often, it tries so hard to be anti-woke that it accidentally does something woke. See, for example, the efforts of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who oversaw USAID’s demise — directives that have contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people —…