Media industry

Media industry

Direct-sold ads remain the top revenue source for publishers, with 95% saying in Q3 2025 that they get at least a very small portion of their revenue from direct-sold ads and 56% saying they get a large or very large portion of revenue from this source. These percentages have remained steady over the last few years, according to Digiday's survey data, and lend themselves to how much publishers say they'll focus on growing this part of their business in the next six months:

I used to need about half a day per month to handle my personal business. That amount of time has tripled, mainly due to the skyrocketing degree of ineptitude on the other side of these transactions. AI receptionists, unwanted apps and other substitutes for human interaction have made everything worse. You can't refill a prescription if the AI receptionist doesn't recognize the name of the medication. It's getting harder and harder to get an actual person - someone capable of exercising judgment -

"The work of your magazine and all who contribute are providing a vital service to the transformation that is ongoing in today's world. No other magazine could replace the work you all do, and the unique niche that you are providing to serve the evolutionary shift to a new, more balanced, enlightened culture." - Scott Chausse | Paonia, Colorado Awards & Recognition HCN picked up 10 awards from the Indigenous Journalists Association, including:

WILL CAIN: A, we so rarely get to see people who have different points of view, but still like each other and are friends. And B, you're both thoughtful. Even though Charlamagne's given me donkey of the day at least once, maybe twice. ANDREW SCHULZ: No! For what? What did you do? CAIN: I was on ESPN defending no, I wasn't even defending they had a big debate during our big race, you know, we're gonna reexamine everything in America period of time.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.

DMG Media, the publisher of Daily Mail and other British news titles, is expanding into social monetization and agency services with the launch of a new media venture called, well, DMG New Media. The DMG New Media business includes 60 people, with expectations to crank out more than 100 social media videos per day. Videos will publish under the banners of Daily Mail or specialist brands that DMG operates, like The Spotlight in entertainment and The Respawn for gaming.

Throughout the staffing changes, Weiss has been equipped with a reported $10k-per-day security detail as she " do[es] the fucking news ." She had a bit of a viral moment earlier this week when she said that she views her position as the opportunity to shut out voices like Hasan Piker and Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes in order to elevate "normal" voices like, uh, Alan Dershowitz to debate the NRA on guns.

ABC radio's chief, Ben Latimer, says there is always more to do on diversity after Chris Bath was replaced with a male presenter on ABC Sydney, leaving the station with an all-male lineup from Breakfast through to Drive in 2026. Bath, who announced her resignation after only one year on Monday, will be replaced by Thomas Oriti in the key Drive slot, which was vacated by the veteran broadcaster Richard Glover after 26 years.

The head of the internet and communications watchdog has said she limits her own use of social media amid concerns over abuse, as she defended Ofcom's role in ensuring safety online. The regulator has urged technology firms to step up in their efforts to tackle trolling and toxic online abuse in new guidance but some organisations working to protect women and girls have complained it might not work unless it is made mandatory.

Wire stories published by multiple outlets were treated as individual articles instead of collapsed, prioritizing news dissemination and reach over unique reporting. Generic news round-ups and recaps (e.g., "Weekend Report", "Top Stories", "News Roundup") were filtered from the event data. We then used the RoBERTa-base model to assign embeddings to each article headline, and employed these embeddings to cluster the output using HDBSCAN.

The vast majority of Costa Rica's radio and television stations are at risk of having to stop broadcasting, after failing to meet the requirements of a spectrum auction ordered by the government of Rodrigo Chaves. The auction was supposedly aimed at democratizing the use of state resources and ensuring that companies pay a fair price for their operations. But dozens of stations announced that they were unable to submit a bid before the Friday midnight deadline set by the authorities for the process.

Nick's feature about the strange, sad case of "Victoria Goldiee"-a phantom writer whose spree of bylines, in publications ranging from the Guardian to Architectural Digest, have all the watermarks of chatbot prose-is the must-read piece of this closing year. With 2025 bringing flirty AI companions and lawsuits against AI giants and a looming AI bubble, his tale about the ease with which synthetic voices can now pass for human hits with the force of a horror story.

As MS NOW's Brandy Zadrozny reported earlier this month, Hines took the stage with the accused sexual abuser at a conference for her husband's old organization Children's Health Defense, where Brand asked the audience to buy multiple copies of her new memoir, Unscripted, and bring in some extra proceeds, one night only, for the junk-science nonprofit that was hosting them. (He then went on to tout transphobic conspiracy theories around the French president's wife in "ramblings that seemed to make Hines ... visibly uncomfortable.")

"The department now projects that revenue from television licence fee receipts will be higher than initially estimated in the Revised Estimates 2025," a spokeswoman said.

What they're saying: In a Truth Social post linking to a Newsmax story with Ruddy's comments, Trump said removing the cap "would also allow the Radical Left Networks to 'enlarge,' I would not be happy." "ABC & NBC, in particular, are a disaster - A VIRTUAL ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY. They should be viewed as an illegal campaign to the Radical Left. NO EXPANSION OF THE FAKE NEWS NETWORKS. If anything, make them SMALLER!"

Ankit Khanal gets his news from News Daddy. More than 20 times a day, Khanal, a sophomore at George Mason University, opens TikTok to have the biggest stories of the day delivered to him by a bleach-blonde 26-year-old named Dylan Page, one of the leading faces in a growing community of news influencers. Based in the United Kingdom, Page began posting content on TikTok in August 2020 and has since grown his "News Daddy Empire," his posts amassing over 1.5 billion likes.

David Benavidez defended his WBC and WBA "regular" light heavyweight titles with a dominant performance against Anthony Yarde in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday. It was another incredible performance that solidified his status as one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the world. Will this victory lead to him replacing Canelo Alvarez as the face of Mexican boxing in the near future?

As the dust settles from the battle for the ownership of the Daily Telegraph, one man has been left standing: Lord Rothermere, whose family have been a mainstay of British newspapers for more than a century. This is a very British stitch-up, said Lionel Barber, the former editor of the Financial Times. Lord Rothermere has played a very astute poker hand, he's shown patience and he's the big winner.

I didn't leave out of any unhappiness. ... The Washington Post has given me everything I've got in this life. Not just money, but purpose and an education. It was very formative. I went to work there at 24 years old, I was there for a sum total of 30 years. So I didn't leave out of unhappiness.

Fox News Digital continued its dominance over other news brands in key metrics throughout the month of October, according to the latest Comscore data. Last month, Fox News Digital reached nearly 1.8 billion multiplatform views. The New York Times trailed in second with 1.4 billion, followed by CNN with 695 million. Fox News Digital trounced the competition in multiplatform minutes, topping more than 3.7 billion. Both CNN and The Times only reached 1.2 billion multiplatform minutes.

I am saddened to learn of the passing of broadcaster David Hanly. I have fond memories of interviews with him on Morning Ireland. He was sharp, highly intelligent, and always had a sense of perspective. He put Morning Ireland on the map. His voice was unmistakable. My thoughts are with his family, friends and former colleagues at this time.

"When we talk about what City Cast is, we actually no longer begin with the idea that we're a local podcast network, even though that is the most familiar thing to most people,"

What made us think anyone would be interested? The answer is rarely simple. We constantly sift through news, linking trends, scouring reports, going yes, no, maybe. That's how we ended up emailing Pollon, a Vancouver-based journalist with deep knowledge of the mining sector. Could Trump's obsession with critical minerals illuminate his annexation talk about Canada? (Spoiler: yes.) But discerning, synthesizing, and connecting explains only part of how we decide.

You're a few questions into the job interview and something feels off. The candidate's answers are polished. (Maybe too polished.) There's a slight delay before each response. And their eyes keep drifting off camera. You're pretty sure ChatGPT is feeding them answers. Rebecca Knight is a journalist who writes about all things related to the changing nature of careers and the workplace.

Mr. Feisty himself will be voicing God in a new, 52-episode-long Fox News podcast that will guide "listeners through the life and teachings of Christ." It's a dream part for an actor who loves to say how he feels about stuff with the utmost authority ... except he already landed it. The podcast also features Kristen Bell as Mary Magdalene; she says her recording was for an audiobook from 15 years ago.