The ailing local news industry in Illinois would receive compensation from Big Tech companies and benefit from state tax incentives and a new journalism scholarship program under sweeping legislation introduced in the General Assembly this month.

Midway through Q1, publishers share early signs of digital ad growth.

A journalism professor blames Wall Street for the newspaper industry’s collapse.

Ideas publishers can use to accelerate their organizational velocity for audience growth, audience engagement and monetization.

Reddit Inc. has signed a contract allowing a company to train its artificial intelligence models on the social media platform’s content, according to people familiar with the matter, as it nears the potential launch of its long-awaited initial public offering.

OFF THE TOP You might have heard: Local news coverage is dwindling. Student journalists are filling in the gaps. (NBCU Academy)  But did you know: […]

"When I asked people 'Are you journalists?' they would say no. But if I asked them 'Is what is what you do journalistic?' they say yes, of course."

With The New York Times suing Microsoft and OpenAI for copyright infringement (a case the Times might well win, AI writer and researcher Timothy B. Lee and Cornell professor James Grimmelman argued this week), it's a good time to take a look at how news sites in general are responding to tech compa…

There are many unknowns around the use of generative AI and potential legal and ethical implications. But wait-and-see is not an option.

POLITICO Europe is the European edition of the Axel Springer-owned news organization POLITICO, reporting on politics and policy in Europe and beyond.

Introduction While social media referral traffic has already been declining for years, search engines have always been a healthy traffic source for news publishers. However, this is set to change with Google providing answers directly in the search results list. Over the past few months, several outlets have reported declining search engine traffic in addition[...]

The News filter disappearing from Google search results for some users this week won't help publishers sleep any easier.

Mx3’s NextGen Panel, created specially to help media leaders better understand Gen Z, is proud to launch its latest report - Media's Influence on Gen Z

These numbers are legitimately shocking.

With news brand content being featured less on certain online platforms as algorithms change, where can news brands...

Today, with an almost overwhelming amount of information we must sift through on news sites, social media and third-party aggregation sites, like Apple and Google News, it’s nice to have information curated and summarized for us and delivered to our inboxes. That kind of sounds like a newspaper.

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NYT’s publisher, A. G. Sulzberger, provided some valuable insights into how NYT is thinking about the subscription model.

As an investigative platform, it made sense for them to use a subscription model. The model gave them the freedom to report without any editorial interference and helped them gain credibility in the eyes of their readers.

Audiences unlock access to content by selecting from a range of options such as purchasing a subscription, viewing a video ad, sharing data, or making a micropayment for short-term access.

Su lanzamiento está previsto para el segundo semestre del año y permitirá hacer cambios en tiempo real para optimizar las campañas de cara a refinar su alcance.

IAB Europe, the leading European-level industry association for the digital marketing and advertising ecosystem, has announced the results of its latest IAB Europe, the leading European-level industry association for the digital marketing and advertising ecosystem, has announced the results of its latest annual ‘State of Readiness - Sustainability in Digital Advertising’ Report for 2024.

Cooper discusses how the changes to the programmatic marketplace impact Black-owned media companies.

Huge amounts of data from Wordle and Connections changed the way our team approached data infrastructure and design

Google coined "Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness" for its human evaluators, yet the concepts apply to all search optimizers.

As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.