Media industry

Media industry

It recently disclosed that India Times was the most-effective English language publisher on Facebook in terms of shares, ahead of NBC and Fox News (with the Daily Mail in seventh and the BBC in eighth). It analysed the optimum length of a story for maximum shares and found that the sweet spot for the New York Times audience is 1,021 words, but for the BBC it's 721 and for the Huffington Post it's 641.

Hasan Piker has built one of the largest online political audiences, reaching millions without newsroom oversight or traditional editorial constraints.

Director general Kevin Bakhurst presses former Donnybrook star on documents request during private meeting Data watchdog to rule on appeal by former RTÉ presenter on 'very straightforward query' Montrose 'disagrees' that Tubridy and agent Noel Kelly 'are entitled to more material' Spare a thought for poor Kevin Bakhurst. The RTÉ director general couldn't go for pints with his best friend Marty Morrissey in O'Donoghue's on Dublin's ­Merrion Row for fear of meeting the ghost of ditching past.

News that the Washington Post had laid off hundreds of workers and scrapped several sections of the storied paper altogether stunned the journalism community last week. The Post cut roughly one-third of its staff, reduced local coverage, and completely destroyed its sports and international departments. The paper is owned by Jeff Bezos. The Amazon founder, who has a staggering net worth of approximately $250 billion, bought the Post for $250 million in 2013.

Well, I think it's not just that we cover issues that Americans actually care about in a way that's truly factual, but we cover the issues that I think for so long legacy media has just routinely ignored, Winters replied, adding: I think you can sort of see the convergence of that with what President Trump talked about in 2016, which was immigration, trade deals, and the idea that our government should actually work to represent us

Innocent men don't pay. They go to trial, Youssef said, leading to Dershowitz accusing him of defamation. Dershowitz was the subject of a defamation lawsuit from the late Virginia Giuffre, one of the victims of convicted child sex predator Jeffrey Epstein. The lawsuit was dropped in 2022, with Giuffre admitting she may have made a mistake in identifying Dershowitz as an abuser.

Trade organization RAJAR, which measures UK radio usage, has released its Q4 2025 data. The headline takeaway tells us that 50 million adults (86% of the adults UK population) listens to the radio at least weekly. That usage adds up to just over one billion listening hours. On a per-listener basis, the average person hears 20-30 hours of live radio per week. These numbers do not necessarily indicate turning on an analog radio. Forty-four million 15+ UK'ers use a digitally enabled platform each week.

AI-driven search is a big part of those challenges. As of October 2025, a full third of the 15 billion searches conducted on Google (or 5 million) triggered AI Overviews, Semrush president Eugene Levin told Digiday. At the same time, a significant percentage of publishers have said their traffic is decreasing. Well over half of publisher respondents to Digiday+ Research's fourth-quarter 2025 survey said they saw traffic declines last year: 54% said their traffic decreased somewhat or significantly throughout the year in 2025.

Or, as you're searching on Google, you can click the star icon next to the Top Stories box and enter the Guardian as a preferred source there. The Preferred Sources button in Google search Photograph: Google 3. You can also click our Prefer the Guardian on Google button on any story and follow the prompts to select the Guardian as a preferred source.

The tension in the boardroom is familiar. A founder scans their search results before an investor call and realizes the problem isn't visibility, it's credibility. Despite months of marketing spend, the company's public narrative feels fragmented, shallow, or worse, indistinguishable from competitors making similar claims. Down the hall, another company faces a different reality. Its leadership team enters meetings with third-party media coverage that clearly explains what they do, why it matters, and how they stand apart in a crowded market.

The Ellison-backed media giant offered a so-called ticking fee for each month the deal fails to close. Paramount Skydance is ramping up its bid for Warner Bros Discovery by offering extra cash for each quarter the deal fails to close after this year. The CBS parent company also said that it would cover the $2.8bn termination fee if Warner Bros Discovery walks away from its $82.7bn deal for its studio and streaming assets with Netflix.

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The FCC Media Bureau's January 21 public notice to broadcast TV stations said that despite a 2006 decision in which the FCC exempted The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from the rule, current entertainment shows may not qualify for that exemption. "Importantly, the FCC has not been presented with any evidence that the interview portion of any late night or daytime television talk show program on air presently would qualify for the bona fide news exemption," the notice said.

When Team USA entered the San Siro during the parade of nations, the speed skater Erin Jackson led the delegation into a wall of cheers. Moments later, when cameras cut to US vice-president JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance, large sections of the crowd responded with boos. Not subtle ones, but audible and sustained ones. Canadian viewers heard them. Journalists seated in the press tribunes in the upper deck, myself included, clearly heard them.

The most relevant figure to Super Bowl LX is absent from it. The game will be played in his former home stadium, in the place where his protest made him a national lightning rod and a global symbol. The social issues swirling around America's largest sporting spectacle carry distinct echoes of what prompted his actions and what led to his exile. And yet he remains outside the conversation and invisible within the confines of the NFL.