The Guardian·2026-03-13
BBC World Service funding freeze risks ‘opening door to hostile states’, MPs sayMinisters risk “opening the door to propaganda from hostile states” and diminishing international trust in the BBC World Service by allowing its funding to be frozen at a crucial time, parliament’s spending watchdog has said. The cross-party public accounts committee (PAC) said it was deeply troubled by the fact the service was still unclear about its funding just weeks before its current deal runs out.It also reiterated the BBC’s warnings about the rising influence of Russian and Chinese state-backed media. It is understood the World Service is to receive a real-terms freeze in funding from the government, with an agreement expected next week. The settlement is likely to disappoint BBC insiders, who had been pushing to expand the service at a time of international instability. MPs said it
The Guardian·2026-03-13
Disappearing act: Tony Burke erased from Courier Mail as News Corp tabloid alters image | The Weekly BeastWhile readers on the Gold Coast apparently find Labor MP Tony Burke an acceptable face, just an hour north, in Brisbane, the home affairs minister is a turn-off. How else to explain the different choices made by two of News Corp Australia’s Queensland newspaper editors on Tuesday? The Gold Coast Bulletin editor, Tyla Harrington, published a front-page headline “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie” with a picture of the five members of the Iranian women’s football team with Burke, who had just granted them humanitarian visas. “Iranians in Daring Gold Coast Defection” was chosen by the Courier Mail editor, Chris Jones, for his front page, with the same picture of the five young women. Except that Burke was removed from the Courier version using photo editing software. No explanation was given and the doc
Adweek·2026-03-12
BDG Names Avi Zimak Chief Commercial Officer in Dual Leadership UpdateThe media group also elevated Amber Estabrook to the role of chief business officer of prestige revenue and partnerships.
Adweek·2026-03-12
How Archer Roose Is Flipping the Wine Industry on Its Head with CMO Conley DowningRepositioning a legacy category by eliminating barriers to entry.
Adweek·2026-03-12
Disney Sells Out 98th Oscars Ad Inventory, Pricing Up Double DigitsDisney continues its live-event and Oscars success with a marketplace fueled by strong demand.
The Guardian·2026-03-12
A funding rethink can help BBC survive crisis | LettersPolly Toynbee says “the BBC’s funding system remains better than anything else anyone has come up with” (In a world of lies, we need the BBC more than ever. This week could be our last chance to save it, 6 March). Sadly, that isn’t true. Today, with hundreds of channels available from a wide range of broadcast and streaming services, for the BBC to collect TV licence fee is outmoded and unjust. With the number of households not holding a licence having risen to 12.5% in 2024-25, and a 30% loss of BBC funding, these trends are bringing the BBC to its knees. The BBC’s public consultation document stressed that it is “a national institution that belongs to all of us”, and mentioned reforming the licence fee, qualified by “We are not considering replacing it through general taxation”. The clos
Digiday·2026-03-12
How medical creator Nick Norwitz grew his Substack paid subscribers from 900 to 5,200 within 8 monthsNick Norwitz graduated from Harvard Medical School last May. By January, he had already grown his paying Substack subscribers nearly 500 percent, taking the total to 5,200, while registered readers jumped 362 percent to 42,000. Last March, he was approached for representation by creator management company Underscore Talent, which signed him into their Shorthand Studios content services to strategi
Digiday·2026-03-12
Inside Amazon’s effort to shape the AI narrative on sustainability and ethicsArtificial intelligence has a trust problem and companies — particularly those like Amazon, Microsoft, OpenAI and others — are facing an uphill battle trying to solve it. Amazon made more deliberate efforts late last month to better manage the narrative. The company hosted its first editorial exchange event in Seattle late last month, where it pitched journalists, including Digiday, as well as cre
Adweek·2026-03-12
Week of March 2 Evening News Ratings: Newscasts See Growth in DemoMiddle East unrest dominated the news cycle.
Digiday·2026-03-12
Media Briefing: In the AI era, subscribers are the real prize — and the Telegraph proves itThis week’s Media Briefing dives into Axel Springer s acquisition of The Telegraph, breaking down what assets are more valuable and how it positions the publisher for growth in the U.S. and the AI era. Layoffs at social-first publisher LADbible as it pivots to IP-growth strategy. GEO versus SEO: Here are the misconceptions. The resilience of the Telegraph s subscription business Axel Springer’s ac
Digiday·2026-03-12
Furniture.com was built for SEO. Now it’s trying to crack AI searchThis story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail In the early days of the internet, owning a domain like Furniture.com was the digital equivalent of beachfront property. If shoppers were looking for a couch online, there was a good chance they would start by typing “furniture.com.” Two decades later, that shopper may instead ask a chatbot where to buy a sofa, leaving companies built
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.
Nieman Lab·2026-03-11
A new report looks at 559 funding proposals to determine local journalism’s biggest problemsJournalism-funding-world spicy isn t the same as, uh, regular-world spicy. But for the journalism-funding world, ProPublica founder Dick Tofel s recent interview with Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro about her new report, Rebuilding local journalism at scale: A field-level analysis of infrastructure needs, contained some . (Too many journalism nonprofits! Too many intermediaries! Nonprofit bloat! Funders
Nieman Lab·2026-03-11
With Newpress, Iz and Johnny Harris incubate video journalism for the creator eraIn 2020, after five years at Vox, journalist Johnny Harris left to start his own YouTube channel . Today, the channel he built with his wife Iz , featuring videos that help you better understand the world, has more than 7.5 million subscribers. Now the Harrises are using what they ve learned to build a business that helps other creator-journalists. Last month, they announced the public launch of N
Nieman Lab·2026-03-10
The creator of Wordle is back with a new game about cryptic crosswordsThe quickest way to feel dumb, in my experience, is to attempt a cryptic crossword . As Simon Parkin explains in the New Yorker : American, or concise, crosswords are typically exercises in trivia more so than wit. A conventional clue might read: Got up. If the solution line has four letters, two answers might fit — rose or woke — and only the crossing letters can settle the matter. The cryptic cl
Nieman Lab·2026-03-10
As AI data centers scale, investigating their impact becomes its own beatData centers have long underpinned the internet as we know it, but the generative AI boom has ushered in a new era of rapid, largely unchecked development. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta alone are expected to spend over $700 billion on capital expenses in 2026 , an increase of 60% from 2025. Much of that money will be funneled toward stockpiling specialized chips and breaking ground on massiv
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
