Nieman Lab·2026-04-13
Independent journalists are mission-driven, but financially strained, a new report saysThere isn t yet a clear playbook for financial sustainability in creator journalism, according to a report published by the Center for News, Technology Innovation (CNTI) on Monday. To better understand the trends and challenges in the growing landscape, CNTI partnered with Project C — a research hub on creator journalism — to survey 43 independent information providers and creator-journalists in t
Adweek·2026-04-13
Meta is Quietly Becoming a Bigger Ad Business Than GoogleAccording to Emarketer, Meta is projected to generate $243.46 billion in global ad revenue in 2026, edging past Google’s $239.54 billion.
Adweek·2026-04-13
Ticker: Fox News Media Partners With KalshiFox News Media joins CNN and CNBC in partnering with Kalshi.
Adweek·2026-04-13
The Cockroach of Marketing Concepts Will Never DieThe sales funnel survives everything thrown at it: academic critique, platform revolution, the endless march of Silicon Valley shamans declaring the next big thing.
Nieman Lab·2026-04-13
BREAKING: These are the kinds of news tweets that perform bestFor news publishers, links are life. But, as I reported last week, publishers appear to face a penalty when they link to their stories on X. I used Claude to scrape the 200 most recent tweets from 18 different publishers, then charted their median engagements (likes + comments + RT s). Posts with links definitely do worse. The New York Times, which includes links in 88% of its tweets, has 53 milli
Digiday·2026-04-13
Creator scandals have turned morality clauses into brands’ go-to exit strategyWhether it was Edie Parker quietly scrubbing every trace of Summer House star Amanda Batula from its website days after she revealed a secret relationship with one of her cast mates, or ABC canceling an entire Bachelorette season after TMZ published footage of its star in a physical altercation with her then-boyfriend, the pattern is the same: when a creator becomes a liability, brands reach for t
Nieman Lab·2026-04-13
TMZ staffs up a new team in D.C. to cover “pop culture and politics”One of the busiest beats in news just got a little more crowded. On Monday, TMZ — the American tabloid outlet known for entertainment and celebrity news — announced that its staffers are now covering Washington D.C. Our 3 intrepid producers Charlie Cotton , Jacob Wasserman and Jakson Buhaj are working The Hill, the story reads. So we re in D.C. on the hunt for good stories. We re also going to exp
Digiday·2026-04-13
‘I’m playing the long game’: Journalists are striking out alone and discovering the business is toughest beat of allIndependent journalism is structurally viable for the first time. The infrastructure is there. The audiences are there. What’s lagging is business fluency, and journalists are learning it the hard way. According to CNTI’s latest research, only three of 26 indie info providers — the report’s term for people delivering factual information via personality-driven brands — interviewed fully fund their
The Guardian·2026-04-13
Letters: George Bennett obituaryI met George Bennett when we were students at Oxford. His flair for fun and invention came out in 1956 in a spoof Ibsen exhibition pretending to commemorate the great writer, but in fact consisting of items scoured from junkshops, such as a cue labelled: “Ibsen was a secret billiards player.” The hoax fooled many visitors, including some from the national press. Dennis Butts In the late 1990s, the media savvy George Bennett gave useful guidance to colleagues at the IFRC Red Cross in Nairobi on publicising their activities. His advice on field trips to places such as Somalia was face-saving: “When offered camel milk by your hosts, consider the absence of facilities on the plane back to Nairobi.” Caroline Hurford
Adweek·2026-04-13
The Newest Character on Netflix’s Running Point? Jake From State FarmBrand mascots are crossing over from ads to dramatic roles as advertising and entertainment collide
Digiday·2026-04-13
What separates brands that grow from brands that stand stillBradley Keefer, Chief Revenue Officer, Keen Decision Systems Every brand is trying to find the right levers to maximize its ad budget. While it is easy to assume larger budgets grant a natural advantage, capital alone does not guarantee success. The brands that win are not necessarily those with the deepest pockets; they are the ones making superior decisions. To understand what separates growing
Digiday·2026-04-13
Why marketing is now the operating system for growthAmanda Forrester, svp, marketing and communications, OpenX Artificial intelligence is pushing marketing to the center of business, making it the operating system for growth. Marketing now determines how a company is discovered, interpreted and trusted by both people and the machines that increasingly guide their decisions. As a result, the role of marketing is expanding from storytelling to archit
Adweek·2026-04-10
Marketers on the Move: Hires and Exits at Babylist, OpenAI, McDonald’s, and moreA weekly roundup of the biggest U.S. and global brand leadership appointments.
Digiday·2026-04-10
OpenAI has quietly launched its ads manager as it races to build out its ads businessOpenAI launched an ads manager last week — the latest move in its fast expanding advertising business, Digiday has learned. The tool — described by those with access as serviceable and broadly similar in layout to Google Ads — is a test within a test accessible to only a handful of advertisers. But it represents a meaningful step in OpenAI’s fast-expanding advertising business: for the first time,
Adweek·2026-04-10
WPP Taps Estée Lauder’s Anne-Isabelle Choueiri as Chief Transformation OfficerShe’ll be central to the holdco's three-year turnaround plan.
Digiday·2026-04-10
Why Pfizer and other blue-chip brands are building internal AI search hubs to reclaim controlThe ad industry’s latest dernier cri is going in-house. Marketers at major advertisers, such as Pfizer, are pulling generative engine optimization (GEO) expertise inside the tent as their sense of urgency over search’s shifting landscape grows. Pfizer officially transitioned its SEO and AI discoverability efforts to its in-house team this week, according to a LinkedIn post from Joshua Palau , the
Adweek·2026-04-10
Revolving Door Roundup: CNN Names Alex MacCallum COOCNN names new COO and other moves from around the news industry.
Digiday·2026-04-10
Future of Marketing Briefing: The ad industry has an AI label problemPeople no longer trust what they see, and the ad industry hasn’t agreed on what honesty looks like in response. Does an AI-generated background warrant a label? What about a synthesized soundtrack? Or does the threshold only kick in when it s a human face, a product claim or a body that never existed? These feel like mundane distinctions until you factor in what labelling actually costs. Research
Digiday·2026-04-10
How did Nike’s embattled heritage brand Converse reach a 15-year revenue low?This story was first published by Digiday sibiling Glossy The Converse Chuck Taylor is one of the most iconic shoes in footwear history, and yet the brand that makes it has been struggling. This is a member-exclusive article from Digiday. Continue reading it on digiday.com and subscribe to continue reading content like this.
Adweek·2026-04-10
YouTuber Jesser Launches Parent Company, Preps Business ExpansionThe media company, which generates an eight-figure revenue, has content and product debuts coming later this year.
Nieman Lab·2026-04-09
More than 1,300 newsrooms participate in the first “Local News Day”Every September since 2012, thousands of volunteers have come together around a shared goal: getting more Americans registered to vote. They ve channeled attention and energy into a single day, dubbed National Voter Registration Day . While having coffee with the founder of National Voter Registration Day, Montana native Matt Singer, Montana Free Press founder and executive director John Adams had
Nieman Lab·2026-04-09
ProPublica journalists walk off the job in first U.S. newsroom strike over AIOn Wednesday, roughly 150 members of the Propublica Guild, one of the largest nonprofit newsroom unions in the country, went on a 24-hour strike. About two dozen Guild members picketed ProPublica’s headquarters in New York City’s Hudson Square neighborhood during working hours, as simultaneous picket lines formed in front of the publication’s offices in Chicago and Washington D.C. On the uncharact
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.
Nieman Lab·2026-04-08
Do links hurt news publishers on Twitter? Our analysis suggests yesElon Musk has said as much : Links in tweets are bad for engagement. Over the last few days, sparked by a post from Nate Silver, people have started arguing again about the relationships between links and engagement. But our new analysis of thousands of tweets from 18 publishers makes it pretty clear: Links do seem to hurt news publishers on X/Twitter. Back in 2016, the analytics company Parse.ly
Nieman Lab·2026-04-07
How newsrooms are bringing their archives to lifeChris Moran , editorial lead on generative AI at The Guardian, recently spoke about how his team used AI tools to build an internal chatbot that lets journalists query the archive, as well as an initial experiment with tag pages that pulls from the paper’s archives to create AI-generated summaries of past events. Similarly, L Eco di Bergamo, a local newspaper in Italy, has used AI to repurpose mor
Fast Company·2026-03-21T13:01:00Z
John Stamos debated live-streaming his first tattoo at SXSW: Is the future of media 'life in real-time'?Speaking with Fast Company at SXSW, the 'Full House' actor shared why he’s excited to be the chief innovation officer of streaming platform Zeam.
