The average paid newsletter costs $10 per month or $100 per year, according to analysis of thousands of publications hosted on Beehiiv. Beehiiv said these average prices have held steady since 2024 despite more creators entering the market. Source: Newsletters in 2026: $10 per month is default price - Press Gazette

OpenAI is making its debut at the world’s top advertising event, pitching its nascent ChatGPT ad business and Codex programming tool to marketers and agencies this week as part of efforts to build a new multibillion-dollar business before its listing. The lossmaking AI group is presenting at the annual Cannes Lions advertising conference in the south of...

Forbes is testing a creator-led audience play that puts TikTok and Instagram talent at the front of its off-platform push.  Through a new “Forbes Creator” banner, the publisher is using TikTok, Instagram and events to push out video-led coverage fronted by a small group of creators, rather than just staff reporters.  Source: Forbes tests a creator-led audience play...

Patrick Dorsey knows better than most about the newspaper industry’s painful disruption. Virginia newspapers he delivered as a boy are gone. Much of his career was in chain newspapers that shrank, merged and shrank again. Brier Dudley's SAVE THE FREE PRESS columns are made available for free to the public and to other newspapers for their use...

Ryan Broderick has watched digital media companies flame out — beholden to a single source of funding or a fickle algorithm. So in 2019, he decided to craft a backup plan, while still working as a tech reporter at BuzzFeed News. Broderick started a newsletter roundup of the web’s oddities with a pleasantly putrid name: Garbage Day,...

Last month in Los Angeles, John Fulton reported the following: Cafe Stella has not only reopened—it also might get a pool. Maru needs baristas for its Los Feliz location. The Salkin House, gorgeously restored, has found a buyer. Oh, and a 38-year-old guy who dislikes Los Angeles Police Department helicopters is single and open to dating. Source: Newsletters...

Instagram is ramping up its efforts to attract more viewers on television in a way that may look very, well, old-school. Starting Monday, the Meta-owned social app will be testing out horizontal video on Instagram for TV, their preexisting feature that allows viewers to watch social videos on the big screen in their living room. And that’s...

One of America’s oldest magazines is investing in video after seeing notable growth in its audience in recent months. On Monday, The Atlantic’s flagship podcast, Radio Atlantic, will expand to produce twice-weekly episodes. Adam Harris will host a new video episode on Mondays that promises to focus on “the stories that set the agenda for the week,”...

Le Monde blocks almost every bot that tries to hit its site. Now it’s starting to think about what happens when its paying readers show up via AI agents instead of a browser. The French news publisher now blocks almost all non-human traffic unless there’s a licensing deal in place, including Google’s AI training crawler Google Extended. Source:...

The prominent literary magazine Granta will no longer publish the winning entries of the annual Commonwealth short story prize after one of this year’s winners drew widespread accusations of AI use. The magazine said it would no longer be involved in “external publishing partnerships” in which it had no editorial control. Source: Granta stops publishing short story award...