The Guardian·2026-03-04
‘Apartheid newsroom’: minority ethnic journalists still locked out of top jobs, report findsBroadcast journalists from ethnic minorities are still locked out of top jobs and face a backlash after being perceived as “diversity hires”, according to a survey of UK television newsrooms. While there has been a sustained focus on racial diversity among Britain’s biggest broadcasters in recent years, the study concluded it had been “performed rather than embedded”, leaving minority ethnic journalists feeling excluded from influential posts and resented by colleagues. The report, commissioned by the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity and co-authored by Rohit Kachroo, ITV News’s global security editor, based its findings on a survey of 80 journalists, with follow-up interviews. “For many, the result has been stagnation, frustration, and in some cases exit from the industry,” the r
The Guardian·2026-03-04
News Corp is essentially an AI ‘input company’, chief executive says, after US$150m deal with MetaNews Corp’s global chief executive has described news organisations as a valuable “input” for artificial intelligence, as the media empire signs an AI content licensing deal with Meta worth up to US$50m (A$71m) a year. In an upbeat presentation, the chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s company, Robert Thomson, said the “reliable” breaking news and information in publications like the Australian, the Times of London and Dow Jones was “hard to beat” as an “input” for AI. The Meta deal, which was revealed by the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal earlier this week and is expected to last at least three years, will allow Facebook and Instagram’s parent company to scrape News Corp’s US and UK content to train its artificial-intelligence products. The outlets include the Journal and the New York P
Digiday·2026-03-04
Why one brand reimbursed $10,000 to customers who paid its ‘Trump Tariff Surcharge’ last yearThis story was originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. Dame is refunding customers who paid its “Trump Tariff Surcharge” last year, becoming one of the first brands to proactively return money tied to President Donald Trump’s now-invalidated tariffs. The sexual wellness company began adding a visible $5 line-item fee at checkout in 2025 as the Trump administration’s trade war pushed up
Adweek·2026-03-04
A+E Turns Brands Into Lifetime Movies as It Looks to Compete in Upfront PitchA+E Global Media announces new content and brand creative studio.
Adweek·2026-03-04
Netflix Taps Amazon’s Shopping Data to Sharpen Ad TargetingThe move pairs Amazon’s shopping signals with Netflix’s new Conversion API as the streamer courts performance budgets.
Adweek·2026-03-04
Havas Bets on AI Veteran Sharona Sankar-King to Lead Proprietary Tech PushHavas Media Network North America has hired data and AI veteran Sharona Sankar-King as chief data and product officer to lead its Converged.AI platform.
The Guardian·2026-03-04
经过数月猜测，盖尔·金将继续留在哥伦比亚广播公司新闻部在对《哥伦比亚广播公司早间新闻》联合主持人盖尔·金在哥伦比亚广播公司新闻部未来的角色进行激烈猜测后，哥伦比亚广播公司新闻部与盖尔·金签署了一项新协议。多年来，金一直是该网络早间节目的核心人物，她的离开将对巴里·韦斯领导的网络新闻部门造成巨大打击。
Digiday·2026-03-04
How creator talent agencies are evolving into multi-platform operatorsThe legacy agency model, long overdue for a reckoning, is finally being rebuilt from the ground up — with creators at the center. The old agency model — brokering deals, manually sourcing talent and running slow, service-heavy operations that treated creators like traditional talent — came of age in a fragmented market. But that model is giving way to something faster, more scalable, and built aro
Digiday·2026-03-04
‘The conversation has shifted’: The CFO moved upstream. Now agencies have to as wellCFOs are demanding more from marketing — and not in the usual way. The familiar playbook of squeezing costs and investing in performance spend is still in motion, driven by an uncertain economy and an unpredictable geopolitical backdrop. But CFOs now are asking harder questions driven by a better grasp of how marketing actually works, and a sharper instinct for where it doesn t. For example, Vayne
Digiday·2026-03-04
Future of TV Briefing: How Paramount’s and Warner Bros. Discovery’s ad tech stacks stack upThis week’s Future of TV Briefing breaks down Paramount’s and Warner Bros. Discovery’s ad tech stacks now that the companies seem set (finally) to combine. Streaming stacks Netflix’s exit, WBD’s town hall, CNN’s future and more Streaming stacks Paramount plans to combine its and Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming services after Paramount+’s owner completes its acquisition of HBO Max’s parent. But
Nieman Lab·2026-03-04
AI-powered search is fueling a wave of Epstein Files transparency projectsThe Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA) requires that the millions of documents collected by the Department of Justice (DOJ) about Jeffrey Epstein be shared with the public in a searchable and downloadable format. In practice, though, the searchability of the DOJ releases has been crude at best. Keywords may turn up individual links to PDFs, but users have reported major search malfunctions and
Adweek·2026-03-04
Ad Agencies Are Embracing ‘Vibe Coding’ to Build GEO Products for ClientsFrom two-hour builds to full SaaS platforms, agencies are using Anthropic's Claude to create custom tools that track how brands show up in AI-generated answers.
The Guardian·2026-03-03
Kyle Sandilands traded in shocking listeners. This time he was the one to get a shockThe Kyle and Jackie O Show was such a magnet for drama for two decades that when the end of the $200m dream radio partnership came – in the form of a nasty dressing down of Jackie “O” Henderson by Kyle Sandilands – many brushed it off as manufactured. But it was made startlingly clear late on Tuesday that Sandilands’ tirade 10 days ago, which was described by Henderson as “mean and nasty”, was the beginning of the end. Henderson walked off the show last week and lay low, while Sandilands told listeners she “wants a couple of days off to gather her thoughts” and would be back. Sandilands said on Tuesday he had written her a “love letter” and he was sorry. But the fight spelled the end of a highly lucrative partnership which had garnered a landmark 10-year media deal just two years ago. Sign
The Guardian·2026-03-03
Banijay Group to form £3.8bn television super-indie with The Traitors producersThe European maker of television shows ranging from Peaky Blinders to Big Brother is to merge with the UK super-indie behind hits including The Traitors to create a €4.4bn (£3.8bn) global TV production giant. Paris-headquartered Banijay Group, which last year considered making a takeover offer for ITV’s studio operation, has struck a deal to merge its TV production business with All3Media, which is owned by RedBird IMI. The new entity will be the world’s largest independent TV maker, combining Banijay Entertainment hits such as MasterChef, Survivor, Pointless, Hunted and Location, Location, Location with All3Media staples such as Midsomer Murders, Fleabag, Call the Midwife, Great British Menu and Race Across the World. Banijay and RedBird IMI, which is in the process of selling the Telegra
The Guardian·2026-03-03
Drusilla Beyfus obituaryTo break into Fleet Street’s national newspapers, the top tier of journalism, by the age of 21, without nepotism, patronage or a web of personal contacts, was remarkable in the 1940s, and it was downright astonishing for the upstart to be female. But Drusilla Beyfus, who has died aged 98, made it on to the Daily Express in 1948, game for anything, such as charming her way on to an RAF plane airlifting coal to the Soviet-blockaded city of Berlin. She landed smudged but triumphant. She had been in print since 17, and remained in it almost to her death. That foreign assignment was a 40s “plucky girl reporter” stunt, but Beyfus’s jobs became both more domestic and more glamorous after, tracking women’s roles in newspapers and magazines. They gave her access to observe modes and manners in a Br
The Guardian·2026-03-03
Kyle and Jackie O’s controversial breakfast radio show taken off air after hosts fall outThe $200m Kyle and Jackie O Show has been taken off the air and Kyle Sandilands accused of “serious misconduct” after Jackie Henderson told the Australian Radio Network she could no longer work with her on-air partner of 25 years. “The KIIS breakfast show will be taken off-air effective immediately, with interim arrangements made for the show,” ARN said in a statement to the ASX. Late on Tuesday, ARN said Henderson had given notice that she “cannot continue to work with Mr Kyle Sandilands”. Her $100m contract, signed in 2023 for a decade of breakfast shows, has been terminated just two years in. Sign up: AU Breaking News email The network said it had also provided written notice to Sandilands stating that it considered his behaviour during the show “an act of serious misconduct which is in
The Guardian·2026-03-03
Telegraph censured for story of fictional family’s struggle to pay school feesThe Telegraph has been reprimanded by a press standards watchdog after it published an entirely fabricated story about a wealthy banker complaining of the impact of school fee increases. Ian Fraser, a freelance journalist and author, complained to the Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) that the Telegraph had breached the editors’ code of practice in an article headlined: “We earn £345k, but soaring private school fees mean we can’t go on five holidays.” The article, published online only on 25 May last year, reported on the impact increases in private school fees had had on a named couple and their three children. The story explained how the investment banker Al Moy, 38, and his wife, Alexandra, had a joint salary of £345,000 with two children at fee-paying schools. It said th
The Guardian·2026-03-03
MS NOW gains viewers after name change, but owner revenue declinesThe US’s biggest liberal-leaning network, MS NOW, has seen double-digit viewership gains since rebranding from MSNBC, the company’s CEO claimed on Tuesday. “Since the rebrand to MS NOW in the fourth quarter, that momentum has not only held, it has accelerated with double-digit growth in total viewers since November,” said Mark Lazarus, CEO of MS NOW parent company, Versant. The network, home to Morning Joe and the Rachel Maddow Show, had been known as MSNBC since its launch in 1996, and early polling showed concern about the name change among viewers. Lazarus said that MS NOW’s most passionate viewers watched between eight and nine hours per week, “which is the second highest engagement across the entire media TV landscape”. Versant, which formed earlier this year after NBCUniversal spun o
