Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week: The Guardian | Revealed: FCC chair Brendan Carr’s close ties to White House ...

Media success used to be all about traffic, unique users and clicks. Now the focus for any sustainable business must be on relationships, loyalty and ...

A busy comment section can look like proof that a story connected with readers. But new research complicates that picture: data-rich stories tend to draw ...

Vertical video has broken free of social platforms: here’s how publishers are bringing the format onto their own properties to build direct audience habits. For as long as vertically-oriented video ...

The biggest move in the market this past year wasn't a bigger budget, it was a better bet. And for the platforms and publishers competing for that budget, ...

News organizations collect enormous amounts of audience intelligence, but they often lack a consistent way to translate that evidence into coordinated organizational action. Every day, audience, ...

News organizations worldwide are adjusting their operational approaches in response to external shifts and internal dynamics. Reuters Institute’s annual report, Changing Newsrooms, explores these ...

Platforms centralize distribution, pricing, and data in digital media, complicating how value is created and captured meaning that copyright functions as an economic tool not just a legacy legal ...

Artificial intelligence significantly reduces the cost and time required to produce video. Across major digital platforms, that shift coincides with a notable increase in low-quality, AI-generated ...

The past year has been a difficult one for many media companies. After the rapid bounce back from early Covid-era travails, more than 20,000 jobs were lost in the US media sector alone in 2023, with ...

It’s been a rough year for publishers and broadcasters in Canada. In the wake of Meta’s news ban, Canadian news publishers and broadcasters have faced declines in online traffic, engagement, and ...

DCN member data, which echoes Pew Research, shows what Google won’t admit: AI overviews siphon attention, erode publisher traffic, and harm the open web’s promise of discovery. The numbers are in – ...