The Guardian·2026-06-04
Bob Harris steps down from BBC Radio 2 shows because of ill healthThe veteran broadcaster Bob Harris has announced he is stepping down from BBC Radio 2 after 30 years so he can focus on “getting well again”, six weeks after revealing his prostate cancer had spread into his upper spine. The 80-year-old host of The Country Show and Sounds of the 70s, known as “Whispering” Bob Harris, said his health problems were forcing him to step down and that it had been “one of the hardest decisions of my entire life”. In April, he took a break from presenting and spent two weeks in hospital after undergoing a course of radiotherapy; he had sought medical advice after experiencing “excruciating pain” in his back. He was first treated for prostate cancer in 2007. In an emotional message to fans, shared on BBC Radio 2’s Instagram account on Thursday morning, he said: “I
The Guardian·2026-06-04
CBS News insiders worry how 60 Minutes will endure after firings: ‘What are they going to put on the air?’For many years now, CBS News employees entering the network’s New York headquarters have walked by a poster showing the seven correspondents who have helped keep 60 Minutes the most-watched show in news for 52 straight television seasons: Lesley Stahl, Scott Pelley, Bill Whitaker, Anderson Cooper, Sharyn Alfonsi, Jon Wertheim and Cecilia Vega. Over the last tumultuous week, three of those correspondents – Pelley, Alfonsi and Vega – have been fired. Cooper – who is also a CNN primetime anchor – announced in February that he was leaving the show. Amid the most significant uproar in the show’s lengthy history, CBS News staffers and 60 Minutes veterans now have two central questions: who will be left to make the show’s 59th season, which begins in September? And will it still feel like 60 Minu
Digiday·2026-06-04
The state of AI in media | How AI is transforming the business side of publishingThis State of the Industry report, produced in partnership with Piano, explores how publishers are adopting AI on the business side of their organizations, specifically what applications they use, the challenges they encounter and the AI investments they’re prioritizing. AI tools are rapidly reshaping how media companies operate, from subscription marketing and ad sales to audience development and
Digiday·2026-06-04
‘They’re going to be extinct at some point’: Why the chief AI officer is a transitional speciesThe chief AI officer has an expiry date — and that’s the point. That’s the view of James Chandler, chief strategy officer at the Interactive Bureau of Advertising U.K., who sees the role as a means to an end — that end being a business where AI is so embedded it no longer needs a dedicated executive to champion it. Once that work is done, every function owns it. Nobody needs a dedicated champion a
Digiday·2026-06-04
Why creator Lola Torres prefers the stability of affiliate marketing over brand partnershipsAfter years of relying on affiliate sales, retailers are rushing to roll out their own creator programs en masse to make creator commerce more measurable, scalable, and controllable. But creator Lola Torres, who won influencer shopping platform LTK’s beauty creator award in 2024, has built her career on affiliate marketing, and she’s sticking with it despite how labor-intensive it is. Torres start
Digiday·2026-06-04
Target has alienated Black-owned brands, founders say, as some startups vanish from its shelvesThis story was first published on Digiday sibling Modern Retail . In 2022, April Showers finally got her big retail break as her brand, Afro Unicorn, entered Target and Walmart. Afro Unicorn is a licensed-character brand designed for women of color that sells hair-care products, books, apparel and more. For Showers, as a Black entrepreneur aiming to normalize Black beauty, getting into mainstream
Adweek·2026-06-04
Week of May 25 Cable News Ratings: MS NOW Has Demo Growth in Primetime and Total DayFox News had total viewer gains in primetime, and CNN saw demo gains during total day.
Adweek·2026-06-04
Walmart Enters Restaurant Delivery With 1,400 Subway LocationsExecutives teased more in-store QSR delivery tie-ups in the coming months.
Adweek·2026-06-04
Netflix Scores Exclusive FIFA Game Ahead of World CupNetflix and FIFA partner for new game ahead of 2026 World Cup.
Adweek·2026-06-04
Week of May 25 Morning News Ratings: Today Sees Demo Growth Post-HolidayAll three morning programs recorded week-to-week declines in total viewers.
Nieman Lab·2026-06-04
With its new season, the podcast Scene on Radio takes on the newsFor more than a decade, the podcast Scene on Radio has dedicated each season to one big topic: whiteness , men and the origins of misogyny , climate change , and capitalism , among others. Now, after seven seasons, the team is turning the lens inward with a season called The News . The first two episodes dropped last week. We started talking about doing a media season probably five years ago, said
Nieman Lab·2026-06-04
Tansa is pioneering a new model for investigative journalism in JapanOn paper, Japan seems to have a thriving journalism sector. The world s third-largest economy also is home to several of the most widely circulated newspapers in the world, such as the Yomiuri Shimbun, which, with 6.2 million subscribers, the highest paid circulation of any independent media outlet in the world, and the Asahi Shimbun, with 3.5 million subscribers. But widely staffed newsrooms and
Nieman Lab·2026-06-03
The Minnesota Star Tribune will cut 15% of its staff — and may become a nonprofitJust a month after winning a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news reporting , The Minnesota Star Tribune will offer buyouts and lay off up to 15% of its staff, the company said Tuesday . The Star Tribune has 495 employees, including a newsroom of 200 journalists. The cuts will affect every department and the newsroom will be reduced to 175 people, the Star Tribune said. CEO Steve Grove told employees
Nieman Lab·2026-06-03
These 16 new journalism jobs could help publishers “future-proof” their newsroomsTen years ago, the phrase chatbots with specific character voices would not have appeared in a journalism job posting. But here we are in 2026, and The Economist — hiring for a senior AI engineer for its AI Lab — mentions that fine-tuning [AI] models for style or persona is a great bit of experience for the role. The senior AI engineer position is one entry in a list included in a Future Newsrooms
Variety·2026-05-27T21:02:28Z
Byron Allen Closes BuzzFeed Acquisition, Says Company Is Now 'Officially Chasing YouTube'Byron Allen now is the majority owner of BuzzFeed -- the struggling digital media player that Allen plans to use to launch a free-streaming platform that he imagines will rival video colossus YouTube.
