As Google's AI Overviews threaten to chip away at publishers' search traffic, The Sun is betting big on something harder to displace: original long-form video. Over the past nine months, video's share of the publisher's digital revenue has nearly doubled, climbing from 9 percent in January to 18 percent today, as advertisers shift spend into premium formats, according to the publisher. A decent chunk of that surge comes straight from its Originals slate - The Sun's bid to turn long-form digital video formats into signature franchises that keep viewers watching for longer, and later scale globally.
As a result, many communicators are turning to multichannel comms strategies to broaden the reach of their message and improve the story's visibility and campaign ROI. To break through the noise and capture the attention of a fractured audience - including journalists and AI bots - communications strategies now demand a coordinated approach that establishes authority, amplifies reach, and delivers measurable impact.
As chief technology officer (and interim chief product officer) of Netflix, Elizabeth Stone is shaping the future of entertainment for over 300 million members worldwide. She'll join the Disrupt Stage this fall for a fireside chat on What's Next for Netflix and for Streaming Itself, part of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 2729 at Moscone West in San Francisco, where 10,000+ startup and VC leaders will gather to shape the future of tech.
"It was a lot easier, in some ways, for journalists back in the 80s and 90s, before all of these cloud platforms existed," said Melody Kramer, a product manager at ProPublica who works on engagement and crowdsourcing tools. "You would put things in a Microsoft Word document, share that within your [physical] newsroom, and nothing would live in a data center or different space." The most sensitive stories could be written on computers without network connections and discussed and edited only in the office.
Guardian journalist Nick Davies appears on the Today programme to promote his 2008 book, Flat Earth News. It is an indictment of the contemporary British press; its sloppiness and corruption. The logic of journalism has been overwhelmed by the logic of commercialism, he tells the host and a glowering Stuart Kuttner, the managing editor of the News of the World. Nowadays, says Davies, so-called reporters are simply passive processors of unchecked second-hand material.
Google has been implementing cost reductions across 2025, including eliminating 35% of managers who oversee teams of three people or fewer, and offering voluntary exit programs across multiple divisions since January. Finance chief Anat Ashkenazi signaled late last year that the company would continue to push cost cuts "a little further," a mandate that appears unchanged despite Alphabet reporting strong Q2 2025 results with $96.4 billion in revenue.
But what a life it was! Realizing fairly early that at 5-foot-8 and 130 pounds, a desired career as an athlete was not realistic, Mike thought that if he couldn't play the games well, maybe he could write well about them and set out to become a sportswriter. And, with some fantastic breaks along the way, he became one, first at his hometown newspaper, the Waukesha (Wis.) Freeman, then on to 25 years at the Milwaukee Journal, capping his career with a 23-year stint as senior assistant sports editor at the Los Angeles Times.
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While the interview began on a calm note, things quickly became heated after Lemon was asked about his involuntary departure from CNN a few years ago. After Lemon remarked, I don't believe in canceling people, Morgan questioned, Do you feel you were a victim of cancel culture at CNN? Um, I probably, answered Lemon. Probably yes. I'm sure that I was a victim of cancel culture.
Sinclair will not lift the suspension of 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' on our stations until formal discussions are held with ABC regarding the network's commitment to professionalism and accountability," the company said.
Lynn Forester de Rothschild is preparing to sell her 20 per cent interest in The Economist, paving the way for the most significant change in the 182-year-old publication's ownership since 2015. The British-American financier, 71, has appointed investment bank Lazard to oversee the process, which remains at an early stage. The stake, made up of voting shares, could fetch as much as £400 million based on current valuations of the premium media group.
Fox News Digital dominated all news brands across key measurables, social media and YouTube during August as Americans continued to rely on the platform for critical information and analysis. The month of August featured a historic summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Trump administration deploying National Guard troops in Washington, D.C., Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announcing their engagement,
People ask me, 'Do you forgive Ned for what he did?' Ariel begins. 'And, I mean, the answer is no. Absolutely not. How can you forgive somebody for lying to you, for cheating on you? No, I mean fuck no.' She pauses, seething with anger, saying that she's starting to see red. 'Forgiveness isn't the goal at this point.' Later in the episode, Ariel recalls the moment she discovered the affair.
Fox News drew a whopping 386.2 million views on YouTube during the month of August, placing it well ahead of competition like CNN and MSNBC. For the month of August, CNN and MSNBC drew 186.6 million views and 275.6 million views, respectively, on YouTube, according to Emplifi data. Both ABC News and CBS News topped 100 million. Fox News saw a bump of 16% from its July to August numbers, and year-over-year, YouTube views are up 65%.
But the proposed deal, announced in June, appears to have come as a surprise to the School Board, which now says in a state court lawsuit filed Wednesday in Miami that the proposed acquisition is not authorized under the Media Group's management contract that has been in force since 2022. Moreover, the money earmarked to pay for WFLM belongs to WLRN, not the Media Group, the lawsuit asserts.
The publishing company behind USA Today and 220 other publications is today rolling out a chatbot-like tool called DeeperDive that can converse with readers, summarize insights from its journalism, and suggest new content from across its sites. "Visitors now have a trusted AI answer engine on our platform for anything they want to engage with, anything they want to ask," Mike Reed, CEO of Gannett and the USA Today Network, said at the WIRED AI Power Summit in New York, an event that brought together voices from the tech industry, politics, and the world of media. "and it is performing really great."
Jessica Reed Kraus likes to talk about the power of gossip and "quality conspiracy." The Substack and Instagram star, who writes under the handle "House Inhabit," became an unlikely powerhouse within the world of conservative media by providing her readers-many of them women-with just that. Although Kraus isn't a household name, she's famous to a slice of Americans; she told me that her Instagram stories can get more than a hundred million monthly views.
In the days following the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the New York Post's coverage repeatedly cast transgender people as central to the violence, leaning on anonymous sources and unverified leaks from law enforcement, some of which Utah Gov. Spencer Cox and investigators have since contradicted. The effect has been to paint a target on a community already living under intensifying political scrutiny and cultural hostility.
The European Correspondent began with a game of telephone between two college students, one in Amsterdam, one in Basel. As the friends passed updates about their countries back and forth, the thought dawned on them - hey, wouldn't it be great to have friends all over the continent, sharing news just like this? So they started a daily newsletter, recruited a stable of unpaid volunteers from every country in Europe, established a Swiss business association, and got to work on their pan-European venture.
The lawsuit by Penske Media in federal court in Washington, DC, marks the first time a major US publisher has taken Alphabet-owned Google to court over the AI-generated summaries that now appear on top of its search results. News organizations have for months said the new features, including Google's AI Overviews, siphon traffic away from their sites, eroding advertising and subscription revenue.
