The Guardian·2026-05-01
‘It ruined my night’: photographers accused of targeting women at St Andrews May DipWhen the sun rises at dawn on Friday, hundreds of St Andrews University students will brave the chilly North Sea for the annual May Dip, an undergraduate ritual said to bring good luck in exams. But the students won’t be alone at the beach. In recent years this quirky ritual has become a target for agency and freelance photographers looking to cash in on images of students in bikinis, including some who camp out overnight on the East Sands dunes near the Fife coastal path. “It ruined my night,” said Anna, one of the students whose photo appeared last year in an online spread published by the Scotsman. “Now when I think about that May Dip, I think about that image, and that’s it.” Like many of her classmates, Anna hadn’t thought twice about taking part in the dip at dawn. Hours later, she w
The Guardian·2026-05-01
60 Minutes journalist decries ‘spread of corporate meddling and editorial fear’ at CBS NewsThe veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi expressed concern about “the spread of corporate meddling and editorial fear” at CBS News and her uncertainty about whether she will keep her job after she pushed back on a directive to change her December segment on Venezuelans who were sent to the Cecot prison in El Salvador. Alfonsi spoke about the incident for the first time on Thursday evening after receiving the Ridenhour prize for courage at the National Press Club in Washington. Her comments come as the Trump administration has piled pressure on US media and follow the decision by the CBS News editor, Bari Weiss, to shelve the segment on the flagship news program. Alfonsi had alleged at the time that Weiss had “spiked” the story for political purposes, a significant accusation of
The Guardian·2026-05-01
Cash, contra and five-star hotels: Kyle Sandiland’s gold-plated contract revealed in legal battle with Kiis FM | Weekly BeastWhen the federal court lifted a restriction on access to Kyle Sandilands’ full $100m contract it gave us a rare peek into the minutiae of the extraordinary deal between the shock jock and the broadcaster Kiis FM. The deal lies in tatters, of course, after ARN Media tore it up and alleged that Sandilands had breached his contract by repeatedly berating colleagues including Jackie “O” Henderson and the audience on air. Sandilands is suing to be paid out the remaining $85m after he was taken off air a little more than a year into the 10-year deal. Highlights of the document marked “confidential exhibit” include that Sandilands demanded a car parking space at the Kiis FM studio in North Sydney but when he was broadcasting from Melbourne he expected airport transfers in a Mercedes Sprinter. Ret
Adweek·2026-05-01
Ticker: Testy Exchange Takes Place Between Scott Jennings and Adam Mockler on CNN NewsNightNewsmax announces a new podcast featuring Greta Van Susteren.
Adweek·2026-05-01
The Marketing CEO: Why Leadership Now Starts With Knowing Your Brand IdentityWhy today's chief executives must lead as marketers first.
Adweek·2026-05-01
AI Is Bringing Retail Media Closer to the SaleThis post was created in partnership with CVS Media Exchange Retail media has become a bigger part of the growth plan for many brands; it has also become harder to [ ]
Adweek·2026-05-01
What It Takes to Grow a CPG Challenger BrandThis post was created in partnership with Ibotta Entering the competitive CPG industry can be an uphill battle—even more so for a challenger brand. But with enough grit and determination, [ ]
Digiday·2026-05-01
Marketers question expensive AI visibility tools as inconsistent results fuel skepticismThe latest industry phrase keeping marketers awake at night is AI visibility. The so-called zero-click reality has ushered in a slew of tools promising insight as to when and where a brand is referenced in AI chatbots. Google users are less likely to click through links when an AI summary appears in the results, according to Pew Research Center . Those who were met with an AI summary clicked on a
Digiday·2026-05-01
OpenAI starts laying foundations for ChatGPT ads in EUOpenAI appears to be getting ready to expand its ads business to Europe. A code update to its conversion tracking pixel , which Digiday reviewed, points to the company building the technical groundwork needed to run advertising in the European Union. The update adds a consent management system, essentially a mechanism that lets advertisers ask users for permission before tracking them, and stops t
Digiday·2026-05-01
Future of Marketing Briefing: YouTube’s creator data play is an on-ramp, not a destinationYouTube is giving brands something they’ve been asking for. The question is whether getting it makes them want something it can’t yet provide. The platform’s Creator Partnerships API, announced at the NewFronts earlier this sping, opens up creator performance data to a select group of third-party ad tech companies for the first time – who watches what, for how long and what that means for an adver
Digiday·2026-05-01
Baller League’s creator strategy: reach is not the same as fandomBaller League has something rare in creator economy business circles: a plan that doesn’t end with it becoming a media company. Instead it wants to become a sustainable sports league. That’s not as obvious as the name suggests. Most creator-led sports properties have ended up caring more about the entertainment wrapper than the sport inside it – the spectacle, the IP and the media rights. Baller L
Nieman Lab·2026-04-29
More scoops, less aggregation and analysis: How Casey Newton is revamping his newsletter to compete with AIOriginal reporting, news analysis, and a roundup of links. Those have been the three pillars of journalist Casey Newton s technology newsletter, Platformer , since it launched in 2017. But, Newton wrote Monday , two of them — link roundups and news analysis — may no longer work so well for his audience in a time of AI automation. So he s experimenting with changes to Platformer s offerings, spendi
Nieman Lab·2026-04-28
“Like nailing Jell-O to a wall”: Why unions are struggling to protect journalists’ rights in the age of AIProPublica journalists walked off the job for 24 hours, after more than two years of negotiations that failed to yield a deal for a union contract that would have included terms around AI and a ban on AI-related layoffs. Meanwhile, in Italy, the country’s main journalists’ union called for two strike days over publishers refusing to accept basic rules on the use of artificial intelligence. And at
Screen Rant·2026-04-27T19:00:20Z
Netflix’s New Feature Officially Brings Streaming Even Closer To Social MediaThe biggest streaming platform in television has just made a big statement about where its content is going, with a brand-new interface feature.
Nieman Lab·2026-04-27
Geospatial AI is reinventing the rainforest beatIn 2018, Joseph Poliszuk fled Venezuela. That year, after exposing corruption in then-President Nicolas Maduro’s administration, he had become the target of lawsuits by wealthy Maduro loyalists. He and several of his colleagues at the independent outlet Armando.info packed up their lives and fled the country under threat of imprisonment. For years, Poliszuk had published stories on Southern Venezu
The Boston Herald·2026-04-22T20:05:54Z
Ticker: Trump media company replaces CEO; SpaceX in $60B deal to to buy AI coding toolThe Trump business behind Truth Social is replacing a former congressman and big supporter of the U.S. president as the leader of the social media platform after a stock collapse that wiped out billions in investor wealth.
PBS News·2026-04-22T20:00:09Z
Trump Media replaces Nunes as Truth Social CEO after stock plunge that wiped out billionsThe Trump business behind Truth Social is replacing a former congressman and big supporter of the U.S. president as the leader of the social media platform after a stock collapse that wiped out billions in investor wealth.
Newsmax·2026-04-22T10:45:49Z
Trump Media Company Replaces Fmr Rep. Nunes as CEO After Stock Plunge That Wiped out BillionsThe Trump business behind Truth Social is replacing a former congressman and big supporter of the president as the leader of the social media platform after a stock collapse that wiped out billions in investor wealth.
Nieman Lab·2026-04-15
Journalists champion Wayback Machine after news publishers limit article archivingIn January, Hanaa’ Tameez and I broke the story that The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co. had begun limiting the Wayback Machine’s access to their news articles. Our reporting showed that these decisions, including a “hard block” by the Times that started late last year, were driven by publishers’ concern that the Internet Archive’s free library of webpage snapshots could be scraped
Adweek·2026-04-08T17:26:58Z
Experiential Retail as a Loyalty Driver at a Heritage Brand With Tecovas CEO David LafitteBalancing brand and performance marketing.
