Media industry

Media industry

It was wise of Omnicom to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 earnings after the market closed on Wednesday, since its stock gained in after-hours trading - unlike Publicis, which got walloped by traders after its quite positive financial results. However, its results were neither spectacularly good nor terribly bad, with 2025 revenue up 10%, thanks in part to including one month of revenue from Interpublic Group, which it finished absorbing at the end of November. Foreign exchange values also goosed the revenue by $125 million, bringing total revenue for the year to $17.3 billion.

Just five years after Berkshire Hathaway sold all 31 of its papers and Warren Buffett deemed the industry "toast," the investor has rejoined a legion of billionaires with their money in media. A quarterly update the conglomerate filed with the SEC just revealed that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway invested a whopping $351.7 million in The New York Times. Buffett, the legendary " Oracle of Omaha," had purchased 5.07 million shares in the 175-year-old paper at the end of 2025,

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NewsNation & YouTube/Megyn Kelly NewsNation host Chris Cuomo compared Megyn Kelly to a cockroach on Wednesday as their insult-laden feud continued to heat up. The feud broke out this week after Cuomo complained about sloppy influencers during a monologue on his show while displaying photos of Kelly on-air. Kelly shot back during a segment on her podcast The Megyn Kelly Show, Tuesday, calling Cuomo a douchebag and claiming that he had less viewers than I have fingers. Cuomo and Kelly continued to exchange insults on social media, Wednesday. Get over yourself, little hater. Odd language choice for a mom with young kids. Classy, snapped Cuomo on X in response Kelly calling him a douchebag.

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The investment thesis fits Buffett's lens precisely. The Times possesses an irreplaceable brand moat with 175 years of history, digital subscription revenues growing 14% annually, and gross margins stabilized around 48%, demonstrating the pricing power he has always prized in media. NYT has also diversified intelligently. Wordle became a cultural phenomenon. The Athletic acquisition brought the world's largest sports journalism operation into the fold. Cooking offers 25,000+ vetted recipes. This is a portfolio of habit-forming content products anchoring daily routines for millions.

Rather than undercutting prices to chase growth, many are leaning into higher-value positioning and introductory offers designed to convert (and keep) paying readers. Digiday's third annual Subscription Index found that publishers increased subscription prices by 5 percent year over year in 2025, based on a cohort of 14 publishers. (Bloomberg increased its annual subscription pricing by an eye-opening 33 percent year over year, up from $299 annually in 2024 to $399 in 2025).

Naru Force will focus on developing "social-first formats, owned platforms, and AI-assisted content ecosystems," and create unscripted formats and IP for emerging streaming apps, creator platforms and social media distribution. AI tools will be integrated "to optimise workflows across the development, production, and brand-matching processes." The first format from the company will be K-pop-themed, and launch across social channels before an in-app debut follows.

Writer Michael Tracey said his audio cut out right as he was being asked if he is paid by any of the men tied to Jeffrey Epstein during an appearance on Piers Morgan's YouTube show on Tuesday. Tracey who has cast doubt on many of the claims made by women who said they were victimized by Epstein was in the middle of a heated exchange with fellow Substack reporter Tara Palmeri over how the Epstein files have been covered when the technical difficulty happened.

Katherine Ryan's podcast is called Telling Everybody Everything, and she does. The comedian is honest to a fault: her comments are regularly reported out of context to create clickbait news stories that give people the wrong idea of what she meant and of her as a human, but she doesn't stop. Her commitment to truth, especially in the celebrity world she inhabits, is as unusual as it is admirable.

"Editing is as much about knowing and growing your team as it is about elevating their copy," said Kathleen McGrory, an editor with The New York Times Local Investigations Fellowship. "As an editor, a key part of your job is understanding what makes your reporters tick and helping them reach their goals beyond any one story. It requires open communication, deep trust and really listening."

I do want to point out what a scumbag Spike Lee is, Rosenberg said. I would go to a Knick game now and I'm not going to encourage any violence but somebody would probably have to stop me from running up to Spike Lee and just knocking his ass out. Yeah, I said it. He scoffed a moment later, This little pussy Spike Lee shows up to the NBA All-Star game wearing this pro-Palestine outfit.

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.

When we look at what makes media literacy effective, the data shows it works best when the content and skills are delivered by a trusted messenger. MediaWise ambassadors, like those we're working with on G.A.M.E., build on that proven strategy to address information challenges facing their communities. If we want to reach people, trusted messengers are really the best voices to be delivering this content.

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