Digiday·2026-04-08
Who is OpenAI’s global head of ads, David Dugan?In the spring of 2006, a young strategist at Digitas named David Dugan was handed an assignment: help figure out what the agency was worth, and what to do about it. The work was delicate, and it required someone who could think in two registers at once, the analytical and the transactional. Digitas would be sold to Publicis the following year. Dugan moved on. But the people who worked alongside hi
The Guardian·2026-04-08
Jackie O told Kiis FM bosses she was subjected to ‘degrading’ comments from Kyle Sandilands, court documents showJackie “O” Henderson sent a text message to the head of the KiiS FM Network five months before she walked off air, saying listeners were complaining that she was in an “abusive relationship” with former co-host Kyle Sandilands. Court documents show the former co-host of the Kyle and Jackie O Show has alleged in her wrongful termination claim against the network that she was subject to “degrading” comments by Sandilands on air. The allegations also reveal a number of conversations between Henderson and senior producers at the network. On 11 September last year, Derek Bargwanna, the head of KIIS Network, sent a text message to Henderson, saying “… Just checking in. All OK today?”, the day after she and Sandilands had had an argument on-air. “Yeah it’s fine today,” Henderson wrote back in res
The Guardian·2026-04-08
City veteran Ian Cheshire chosen to be new chair of OfcomThe government has named the City veteran Ian Cheshire as its preferred choice to chair the media regulator Ofcom. Cheshire will be formally appointed to the role for a four-year term once he has been approved in a parliamentary hearing. He was formerly the boss of the B&Q owner, Kingfisher, and served as the chair of Channel 4 until last year. The appointment made on Wednesday comes at a critical moment for Ofcom amid concern over the rapid growth of online content and the rise of more politically partisan broadcasting. The regulator oversees the Online Safety Act, the legislation that regulates all social media in the UK. Cheshire said in a statement that across his career in e-commerce, telecoms and broadcasting he had “seen first-hand how much effective regulation matters – for con
The Guardian·2026-04-08
New Ofcom boss Ian Cheshire’s in-tray is full but one issue will dominateIan Cheshire’s Ofcom in-tray is big. It is available online under the regulator’s plan for 2026-27 and covers an array of industries: telecoms, broadband, the postal service, media and the online world. It is the latter that is going to dominate his tenure as chair. Ofcom oversees the Online Safety Act, the legislation that regulates social media in the UK. Much is expected of the act from internet safety campaigners, and a bit less from freedom of speech advocates, which leaves Cheshire in a difficult place. “When Ofcom was formed just over 20 years ago, the communications world was a very different place,” the plan says, with some understatement. “Two-thirds of the UK had no internet. There were no iPhones or smart speakers, no iPlayer, YouTube or TikTok. 4G was still a decade away, and
Digiday·2026-04-08
Future of TV Briefing: A TV advertising staple is missing from YouTube show sponsorshipsThis week’s Future of TV Briefing looks at the rare practice of YouTube channels offering TV-style make-goods to sponsors as TV-style shows become more commonplace. Making good Netflix’s video AI tool, OpenAI’s TBPN acquisition and more Making good Recently I was talking with Donut Media’s head of brand partnerships Amanda Klein. The Recurrent-owned media company’s YouTube videos are receiving abo
Adweek·2026-04-08
Why Every Streaming Service Suddenly Wants a Podcast StrategyAccording to some media executives, podcasts are the new day-time television.
Adweek·2026-04-08
Here Are the Cable News Ratings for March 2026Fox News and CNN experienced across-the-board gains for the month.
Adweek·2026-04-08
AMC Networks Is No More. Bow Before AMC Global Media.AMC Networks officially changes its name to AMC Global Media ahead of upfront season.
Adweek·2026-04-08
Always Alpha Acquires Tennis Management Firm Courtside TalentThis is the first acquisition for the women's sports-focused agency.
The Guardian·2026-04-08
‘A full-on embrace’: how the EU’s largest news publisher fell in love with the USIn Mathias Döpfner’s 2023 book Dealing with Dictators, the chief executive of the German media company Axel Springer SE proposed a fix for western democracy: states that respect the rule of law should stick together and prioritise trading with each other. Better that, he declared, than indulging the illusion that doing business will tame “self-styled strongman leaders”. So it came as quite the surprise when last month Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, was given a prominent opinion article in Welt am Sonntag, less than four weeks before the riskiest elections of the rightwing populist’s career. “It caused a lot of strong irritation,” said a former editor at the Springer-owned broadsheet. Long a powerful and polarising force in Germany’s postwar media landscape, Axel Springer is now ai
Nieman Lab·2026-04-08
Do links hurt news publishers on Twitter? Our analysis suggests yesElon Musk has said as much : Links in tweets are bad for engagement. Over the last few days, sparked by a post from Nate Silver, people have started arguing again about the relationships between links and engagement. But our new analysis of thousands of tweets from 18 publishers makes it pretty clear: Links do seem to hurt news publishers on X/Twitter. Back in 2016, the analytics company Parse.ly
Digiday·2026-04-08
Google says its AI-powered ads help some brands lift online sales by 80%This story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail Google says its AI-powered ad tools are delivering measurable results for some brands, as the world’s largest seller of ads experiments with new ad formats, shopping integrations and AI-powered tools. The debut of ChatGPT in late 2022 sparked early speculation that AI chatbots were tantamount to “Google killers,” threatening the compa
Digiday·2026-04-08
Digiday+ Research: Publishers apply AI to streamline tasks and improve audience experienceThis is an excerpt from our Digiday+ Research report How publishers from Dow Jones and Business Insider to People Inc. are approaching AI in 2026 , which explores how publishers are navigating the opportunities and challenges that have come with the evolution of AI. The report is based on a survey of 40 publisher professionals, as well as individual interviews with publisher executives responsible
Nieman Lab·2026-04-07
How newsrooms are bringing their archives to lifeChris Moran , editorial lead on generative AI at The Guardian, recently spoke about how his team used AI tools to build an internal chatbot that lets journalists query the archive, as well as an initial experiment with tag pages that pulls from the paper’s archives to create AI-generated summaries of past events. Similarly, L Eco di Bergamo, a local newspaper in Italy, has used AI to repurpose mor
Nieman Lab·2026-04-07
Federal appeals court supports injunction against ICE in L.A. Press Club lawsuitIn September 2025, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction requiring that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) limit its use of force against journalists, observers, and peaceful protesters during its ICE raids in Southern California. It was a victory for the suit’s plaintiffs, including the L.A. Press Club, The NewsGuild-CWA, and ACLU SoCal, who claimed that attacks on journalists co
Nieman Lab·2026-04-06
How V Spehar built a news business from under a deskThe data is in : News creators and influencers are a major source of news for Americans, especially people under 30. This is the third edition of Creators of Record , an occasional series of interviews with popular creators about how they do their jobs. It was technology and culture reporter Taylor Lorenz who first told news creator Vitus V Spehar to think of themselves as a journalist. It was 202
Fast Company·2026-03-21T13:01:00Z
John Stamos debated live-streaming his first tattoo at SXSW: Is the future of media 'life in real-time'?Speaking with Fast Company at SXSW, the 'Full House' actor shared why he’s excited to be the chief innovation officer of streaming platform Zeam.
Reuters·2026-03-11T07:06:55Z
Canal+ taps Google's AI for video production, content recommendationFrench media group Canal+ on Wednesday said it had struck a multi-year partnership with Alphabet's Google Cloud to deploy generative artificial intelligence across its production operations and streaming platform.
