Election season is a busy time for any newsroom. In the second quarter of 2026, some nonprofit newsrooms saw their coverage of the primaries — especially voter guides — pay off in both interest and traffic. In Nieman Lab’s quarterly ranking of nonprofit news outlets, four news outlets saw a bump in traffic thanks in part to...

Almost a year ago, while reviewing ad revenue, capacity and yield numbers across the Condé Nast portfolio, a steep decline in traffic, driven largely by Google’s AI Mode, pointed to one conclusion: a supply crunch was coming, and it would eventually push prices higher Source: (5) The Ad Supply Crunch Is Here. Publishers Need to Rethink Scarcity

A labor dispute erupted at The Guardian’s London headquarters in December 2024, with nearly 500 journalists going on strike to protest the proposed sale of the Guardian-owned Observer. With the newsroom hobbled, the British publication’s management allegedly deployed generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude to suggest headlines and write descriptions of photos for people using screen...

"AI is accelerating our core business today, powering our next generation of products, and opening the door to entirely new enterprise opportunities," said Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO. "The results are already showing, and I'm optimistic about the potential ahead." Source: Meta - Meta Reports Second Quarter 2026 Results

Jess Michaels, a historical romance writer, has released 117 novels since she started writing full time in 1999, most of them self-published. She’s built a devoted readership, and has had 10 USA Today best sellers. Source: How A.I. Books Sneak Their Way Into Stores - The New York Times

ABC News is going after true-crime superfans with the launch of the “20/20 True Crime+” subscription tier on Apple Podcasts. Source: 20/20 True Crime Subscription Launches on Apple Podcasts, New Luigi Mangione Series

OpenAI, Anthropic ask US government to consider slowing down AI Source: OpenAI, Anthropic ask US government to consider slowing down AI | Editor and Publisher

t the worst moment of the world’s history, that’s where we began,” David Lane, the CEO of Sports Illustrated Tickets, told me. He was referring to early 2020, the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Over a few days in March, the major American sports leagues suspended or delayed their seasons. The live-music industry soon stopped in its...

In the first major restructuring move of Byron Allen‘s ownership tenure, BuzzFeed, HuffPost and Tasty are set to undergo a significant round of layoffs, with some 180 staffers to be given pink slips, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. BuzzFeed, across all its units, had approximately 510 employees prior to the cuts. Source: BuzzFeed and HuffPost to Lay Off...

In another era, it’s a story that the Dallas Morning News — located roughly 350 miles southeast of Lubbock, Texas — likely would’ve given less priority. But the paper’s coverage of Texas Tech had been shared quite a bit among fans on Reddit, so this was worth paying attention to. Source: Is this Reddit’s moment for local news?...