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3 days ago | 
amediaoperator.com | Bron Maher |Jacob Donnelly
Reports of affiliate revenue’s death may be at least partially exaggerated. The income stream does appear to be under strain: alongside its 21% cuts to headcount announced last week, Business Insider told staff the brand will be “exiting the majority of our commerce business,” citing its overreliance on volatile search referral traffic.
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1 week ago | 
amediaoperator.com | Bron Maher |Jacob Donnelly
Education media group EducationScape is diversifying out of journalism and investing in technology that cuts legal risks for companies far outside its sector. Suppose you’re a 17-year-old apprentice getting bullied by your boss. You’ve never been in a workplace before, you don’t know how to flag the abuse to your training provider without getting backlash and now you’re considering quitting the role.
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1 week ago | 
amediaoperator.com | Bron Maher |Jacob Donnelly
You can’t buy guns online in the UK. You also can’t promote guns on Facebook’s marketplace, sell on eBay or even input keywords for Google Ads. So how does a gun publisher effectively market its publications? Hard to say, but Simon Barr, chief executive officer of field sports-focused media business Time Well Spent Group, sees an opportunity in an industry that tech giants have shied away from and is ready to invest in it.
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2 weeks ago | 
amediaoperator.com | Bron Maher |Jacob Donnelly
Facebook is being a little nicer to publishers again, but that doesn’t mean there’s any real improved revenue prospects there—yet. At the start of the year, Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said that his company’s platforms would bring back “civic content” after years spent making political and news content less visible.
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2 weeks ago | 
amediaoperator.com | Bron Maher |Jacob Donnelly
Nearly three years after ChatGPT sparked a panic over the future of publisher copyright, the machinery of the existing copyright regime is starting to grind into gear. This year a group of UK collective licensing services—bodies that collect royalties on behalf of a given industry—are set to unveil a new licensing service tailored to dealing with the use of copyrighted text by generative AI applications.
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3 weeks ago | 
pressgazette.co.uk | Bron Maher
New York Times executive editor Joe Kahn has disclosed that at some points in recent months the publication has been publishing a new story about Donald Trump on average every half hour. But responding to questions about whether Trump had been purposely overwhelming the news agenda, Kahn insisted journalists “have to face that reality” that what the US president does is always newsworthy.
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1 month ago | 
pressgazette.co.uk | Bron Maher
Editor of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg has said of his blockbuster “Signalgate” scoop that journalism is “a simple business”, arguing audiences “know what a quality story is” and will pay to read it. Speaking at the Sir Harry Summit in London on Wednesday, Goldberg said his accidental addition to a sensitive Trump administration group chat had been “too stupid to be believed”.
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1 month ago | 
pressgazette.co.uk | Bron Maher
CNN chief executive Mark Thompson has suggested artificial intelligence could become an “even better” way of connecting journalism with audiences than Google has been. But his argument produced sharp rebuttals from BBC News chief executive Deborah Turness and Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes, who respectively claimed he was wrong or making a moot point.
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1 month ago | 
pressgazette.co.uk | Bron Maher
The Supreme Court has refused a claimant’s attempt to test the UK’s qualified privilege defence in a libel trial, saying the application “does not raise an arguable point of law”. Salman Iqbal, the founder and president of Pakistani broadcaster ARY Digital Network, had been attempting to sue another Pakistani network, Geo News, over its 2022 coverage of a political rally held in Pakistan during which speakers had attacked Iqbal and his business.
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1 month ago | 
pressgazette.co.uk | Bron Maher
DC Thomson chief brand officer Ella Dolphin has been promoted to the newly-created role of deputy chief executive at the Stylist and Press and Journal publisher. Dolphin has worked at DC Thomson since 2016, originally joining as chief executive of Shortlist Media. She has served as chief brand officer for the last three years.
