The Canadian billionaire Stephen Smith has bought a stake in the parent company of The Economist, held by Lynn Forester de Rothschild, in only the third significant ownership structure shake-up in its ...

BBC executives had argued that the current system in which the broadcaster’s charter had to be renewed every 10 years created a rolling existential threat.” —SS ...

The new company is an extension of the experiments BuzzFeed has run for years using AI technology, [CEO Jonah] Peretti explained, in a halting presentation that began with slideshow glitches, before ...

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We agree that streaming news is definitely the future,” Jordan Lilly, a CBS News 24/7 producer and member of its bargaining committee, said. “We’ve been doing it here for 12 years. Glad that the rest ...

“‘Letting the journalism speak for itself is an approach from a bygone era.’ That’s good. But I don’t recall seeing such a post that does anything other than say, ‘we were right, and here’s why.'” —SS ...

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In a memo to staff this morning, the organization said it plans to ‘launch this new version of NOTUS under a new name’ and double staff from 50 to 100.” (An Atlantic staff writer pointed to evidence ...

From New Jersey to California to Louisiana, weather journalists are leaving traditional TV newsrooms to form all-digital platforms. According to Alan Sealls, the president of the American ...

“As other networks stagnate, shift their algorithms or burn themselves to the ground, LinkedIn is becoming a site where regular people actually want to hang out and post their thoughts,” Frier wrote. ...

At “an evening of magic, rap battles, and a SECRET documentary screening,” would I discover the future of news?

The Wall Street Journal’s proposition has, for many years, been clear: Pay for our journalism, including online. Many do: The Journal recently hit 948,000 digital-only subscribers, according to owner ...