Nieman Lab·2026-03-16
Reluctantly learning from my boyfriend’s favorite news creatorOk I have a wild suggestion was the text I got from my boyfriend on Feb. 22. Dylan wanted us to attend a carnival featuring the journalist/documentarian/news creator Andrew Callaghan in Medford the following Saturday. Dylan, one of Callaghan s 3.46 million YouTube subscribers, learned about the tour from watching one of the 28-year-old Channel 5 host s latest videos. I, the journalist in this rela
Adweek·2026-03-16
CMOs Are Driving Growth, So Why Aren’t More Becoming CEOs?Marketers say experience gaps are stalling progression, finds NewtonX.
Adweek·2026-03-16
Ugg Brings Back the Fluff Yeah Sandal With a Sci-Fi-Inspired TwistUgg has brought back its Fluff Yeah sandal in response to customer demand, tapping comedian and actress Atsuko Okatsuka for its Spring 2026 campaign.
The Guardian·2026-03-16
BBC asks US court to throw out Trump’s $10bn lawsuit and avoid ‘chilling effect’The BBC has asked a US court to throw out Donald Trump’s $10bn (£7.5bn) lawsuit over the way a documentary edited one of his speeches, warning that proceeding with the case would have a “chilling effect” on its reporting on the president. In papers filed to the Florida court dealing with the case, the BBC’s US lawyers claimed Trump’s reputation had not been damaged by the documentary, given it aired in the UK a week before his re-election. The broadcaster’s lawyers also reiterated that the Panorama documentary, Trump: a Second Chance, was simply not published in the US, including Florida, meaning the court had no jurisdiction to hear the case. They also cited other cases to argue that defendants should not have to deal with “expensive yet groundless litigation”, which restricted the abilit
The Guardian·2026-03-16
ACM to brief staff after co-owner Antony Catalano charged with assault of a womanAustralian Community Media will hold a staff meeting on Monday afternoon to share the regional media group’s response to the arrest of its part-owner Antony Catalano who is facing charges of assault of a woman. On Sunday the board and executive leadership team of ACM distanced itself from the 59-year-old newspaper mogul, saying they were “shocked and deeply concerned” about the charges. According to an ABC report, the summary of police allegations read to the court said Catalano dragged the woman through her apartment by the hair and ankles on Friday evening, resulting in hospitalisation for a fractured coccyx. Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email “The accused dragged the victim to the laundry area where he grabbed a clothes iron and held it towards the victim’s head, causing the
The Guardian·2026-03-16
Kiis FM banned from airing strong sexual content on Kyle and Jackie O shows for five yearsAny Kiis FM radio program hosted by Kyle Sandilands and or Jackie “O” Henderson must not air strong sexual content for the next five years or ARN Media could face penalties as serious as the cancellation of the radio station’s licence. However, the penalty from broadcasting authorities has come two weeks after the Kyle & Jackie O Show was taken off the air and Henderson’s contract with ARN was terminated. ARN provided written notice to Sandilands stating that it considered his behaviour during a show last month to be “an act of serious misconduct which is in breach of ARN’s services agreement”. Sandilands has until Tuesday 17 March to show how he will “remedy” the alleged breach of ARN’s “services agreement” or his contract will be torn up too. Henderson said she could no longer work w
Digiday·2026-03-16
Shopify says purchases are coming ‘inside ChatGPT’ through agentic storefronts as OpenAI retreats on Instant CheckoutThis story was first published by Digiday sibling Modern Retail . Shopify told merchants their products will soon be discoverable and purchasable inside ChatGPT through its new “agentic storefronts” feature as OpenAI shifts how checkout works inside the chatbot. “Coming later in March: ChatGPT in Agentic Storefronts,” Shopify said in an email sent to merchants Wednesday and reviewed by Modern Reta
Digiday·2026-03-16
A new studio is betting Hollywood talent and first-party data will reshape creator monetizationLinden Lane Films, a self-described next-generation content studio, is betting that the creator economy’s next move isn’t more followers — it’s a full ad business. The new venture is one company, among others, pairing Hollywood talent with top creators and building the ad-tech data layer beneath them to compete for brand budgets that have historically gone to premium publishers and platforms like
Digiday·2026-03-16
Lay’s uses WhatsApp to create a group chat for World Cup fansAgainst a saturated — and more expensive — sports marketing landscape, Lay’s is trying to recreate one of the internet’s most intimate spaces: the group chat. The PepsiCo-owned snack brand is hosting a FIFA World Cup watch party through Meta’s WhatsApp. The group chat features celebs like Lionel Messi, David Beckham, Alexia Putellas, Thierry Henry, and Steve Carell — all of whom are posting photos
Digiday·2026-03-16
Ulta Beauty CEO announces TikTok Shop launch, 11.8% net sales jump: ‘We got our swagger back’This story was originally published on sister site, Modern Retail. Ulta Beauty will soon launch on TikTok Shop. “We are pleased to announce today an expanded strategic integration with TikTok,” Ulta Beauty CEO Kecia Steelman said during Thursday’s earnings call last week. “Next week, we will launch Ulta Beauty on TikTok Shop, where guests can purchase immediately as they engage with content from U
Adweek·2026-03-16
Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Warns AI Could Harm Workers—Even If It Doesn’t Entirely Replace ThemAt a panel on the future of work, economists, technologists, and policymakers debated whether AI will hollow out the middle class or simply accelerate trends already underway.
Adweek·2026-03-16
JCPenney Takes on Fashion Elitism With a Runway Show in Paris, TexasJCPenney hosted "The Other Paris Runway” as a direct counterpoint to the exclusivity of traditional fashion shows.
Nieman Lab·2026-03-12
Journalist Julia Angwin files class action lawsuit over Grammarly’s AI “sloppelgangers”Grammarly will face a class action lawsuit over its Expert Review feature that dispensed writing advice using the names of prominent journalists, academics, and authors, Wired reported on Wednesday. Technology journalist Julia Angwin is the only named plaintiff on the original filing. Angwin s lawyer, Peter Romer-Friedman , said on Thursday morning that he s since heard from 40 to 50 people who ob
Nieman Lab·2026-03-12
When left-leaning journalists produce right-leaning storiesKananovich sought to examine “the extent to which [newspapers] communicate the value of local journalism as a crucial democratic and civic institution.” She analyzed their appeals to readers through two lenses: journalism studies (specifically the concept of metajournalistic discourse, or how journalists talk about what they do) and marketing (drawing on Cialdini’s six principles of persuasion). T
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
