The Guardian·2026-03-10
Kyle Sandilands apologises to former co-host Jackie ‘O’ Henderson and says he wants program back on airKyle Sandilands says he has apologised to his co-host, Jackie ‘O’ Henderson, and is “devastated” that their partnership could be ending in his first public comments since their shock split. In a lengthy statement issued on Tuesday, the Kiis FM radio host said he had been told by the broadcaster’s parent company, the Australian Radio Network (ARN), that he was “not allowed to contact Jackie” or his colleagues after her exit from the $200m Kyle and Jackie O Show on Tuesday 3 March. He said ARN terminated Henderson’s contract the same day he was suspended from work for a fortnight, accusing the media company of not running a “genuine process”. “On 20 February, I had an argument with Jackie on air about something that had been bothering me for a while,” he said in the statement, provided to Gu
Mechanicsburg Patriot News·2026-03-09T19:04:48Z
Will HBO Max shut down? Merger raises questions about streaming futureA prominent media analyst believes the streaming platform will essentially be shut down after Warner Bros. Discovery merges with Paramount, though HBO content may continue.
Nieman Lab·2026-03-09
A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI “experts”Pretty soon, I won t have to edit Nieman Lab stories anymore. Instead, I ll have AI edit them as me. And I get tired of myself, I can move on to get edits from other people who write about journalism. At least, that s the idea behind Expert Review , a feature from AI editing software Grammarly that promises writing feedback by subject-matter experts. Instead of producing what looks like a generic
Adweek·2026-03-09
Women in Advertising Are Closing Every Gap They Can. The Pay Gap Persists AnywayA new study finds women in advertising earn up to 8% less than men even after controlling for every known variable, pointing to managerial gatekeeping, workplace social dynamics and a culture of opacity as the forces keeping the gap alive.
Nieman Lab·2026-03-09
Iran’s divided media landscape makes getting information during wartime even harderFrom brutal crackdowns on nationwide protests in January, to Israel and the United States recent strikes , Iran has been in the international spotlight for weeks. Reporting on Iran is challenging, both from inside the country and from outside. During periods of unrest and political turmoil, it becomes even harder and more restrictive. Iran s media landscape is divided between outlets closely affil
Adweek·2026-03-09
A New Wave of M&A Shows that Retail Media’s Easy Growth Is GoneCompanies are in a land grab for data.
Digiday·2026-03-09
In graphic detail: How Anthropic’s Pentagon refusal is paying off in downloads, brand trust and enterprise dealsAnthropic s war with Washington last week is winning in the public. The $200 million it walked away from by refusing the Pentagon s demands may turn out to be the best marketing spend in Silicon Valley for years. Its principled stand has driven a surge in users and supercharged its brand — no small feat for a company that has always bet on enterprise over the masses. What makes this all the more r
Digiday·2026-03-09
How AI could disrupt retail media’s $38 billion search ad marketIf OpenAI’s latest moves indicate anything, LLMs are positioning themselves to be the go-to stop for searching and shopping. Between shopping integrations and ad product rollouts, AI chatbots could rattle retail media networks’ hold on sponsored and search ad dollars. As user behavior shifts, so too could retail media’s value proposition. Already, AI has upended traditional search as users increas
Digiday·2026-03-09
‘Brand safety is moving from fear to curiosity’: Zefr’s Raddon on content-level accreditation – and what it exposes about the industryFor years, brand safety was a fear business. The pitch was simple: something terrible could appear next to your ad, and without the right protection, your brand would pay the price. It worked, because the threats were legible — a controversial news story, an offensive YouTube video, a brand caught in the wrong conversation. AI breaks that model. The threat is no longer a discrete piece of bad cont
Digiday·2026-03-09
Long-form creators eye taking over TVs – and chasing bigger brand budgetsLong-form creator shows are landing on TVs, and Spotter, a creator growth platform that provides services and capital to facilitate growth and YouTube revenue share, wants brands to follow — but ad budgets are still lagging. Audiences spent 52 billion minutes last year watching long-form, episodic creator shows across platforms, according to data Spotter released at its showcase event in NYC on Ma
Adweek·2026-03-09
Stop Marketing Like the Brand You EnvyMarketers are easily dazzled. We’re great at spotting magic, and that’s what makes us such good storytellers. The trouble is, once we’ve spotted it, we immediately want to import it.
Adweek·2026-03-09
Paramount Could Face a High Cost for Changing CNNDavid Ellison has said CNN’s 'editorial independence' will be maintained.
Nieman Lab·2026-03-05
It’s time for local news funders to pick winners, scale up, and force mergers, a new report arguesLast summer, Press Forward made almost $23 million in grants to 22 organizations aimed at bolstering the infrastructure for local news . The grants were the culmination of a request for proposals process that began accepting applications in November 2024, and elicited 559 proposals. Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro, with support from Arnold Ventures (disclosure: an occasional consulting client of mine), w
Nieman Lab·2026-03-05
With Washington Post Local diminished, other news sites step up their D.C. coverageWhat was widely recognized as a national tragedy was also a local one. When leadership at The Washington Post laid off more than 300 journalists last month , Post Local was among the hardest-hit sections. Successive rounds of cuts had already shrunk the section down to around 40 reporters and editors. (In the early 2000s, the metro department had around 200 journalists .) But the latest layoffs le
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
Nieman Lab·2026-03-03
X will demonetize users who post AI-generated videos of war (but not other kinds of disinformation)On Tuesday Nikita Bier , head of product at X, announced that users who post AI-generated videos of an armed conflict without disclosing they were AI-generated will suspended from the site s revenue-sharing program for 90 days, with repeated offenses leading to a permanent suspension from the program: Today we are revising our Creator Revenue Sharing policies to maintain authenticity of content on
Nieman Lab·2026-03-03
Newsonomics: Will national news shrink even faster than local news did?Anderson Cooper may be running out of lily pads. Just two weeks ago, he announced his decision to leave CBS’s 60 Minutes, after almost 20 years of multitasking. Over time, he arrived at the pinnacle of the TV news profession as a CNN anchor, growing his gravitas as a cascade of crises consumed our world while contributing to the most storied newsmagazine of the entire TV era. He’d seen enough of t
M Live Michigan·2026-03-02T17:27:10Z
Major streaming platform may be going away after $110 billion dealThe merger, which is expected to close in the third quarter of 2026, will create a media empire.
Nieman Lab·2026-03-02
New York Times runs in-house ad asking listeners to “support any news organization dedicated to original reporting”The New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger has voiced a new ad encouraging listeners to support any news organization dedicated to original reporting — even if it s not the Times. It s Sulzberger s first-ever advertisement, the Times confirmed, and it ran for the first time on Monday. A New York Times spokesperson said the publisher wanted to call attention to the shrinking of the news industry.
Athens Banner-Herald·2026-02-24T17:29:30Z
Atlanta Braves announce their own streaming platform for 2026 seasonThe Atlanta Braves ended their broadcast agreement earlier this year, and have now announced their own media platform for the start of the 2026 season
Savannah Morning News·2026-02-24T17:29:30Z
Atlanta Braves announce their own streaming platform for 2026 seasonThe Atlanta Braves ended their broadcast agreement earlier this year, and have now announced their own media platform for the start of the 2026 season
Augusta Chronicle·2026-02-24T17:29:30Z
Atlanta Braves announce their own streaming platform for 2026 seasonThe Atlanta Braves ended their broadcast agreement earlier this year, and have now announced their own media platform for the start of the 2026 season
