CBS News announced Friday that Jericka Duncan will now helm the Saturday edition of CBS Weekend News. Duncan was already the anchor of the Sunday-evening edition of the news broadcast. (TVNewser) Adriana Diaz, who anchored on Saturday, departed last month to co-host CBS Mornings Plus, the new third hour of the network’s morning show, along…Read More
The European Union’s top court sided with a privacy challenge to Meta’s data retention policies. It ruled Friday that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people’s information for ad targeting indefinitely. (TechCrunch) “Following this ruling, only a small part of Meta’s data pool will be allowed to be used for advertising–even when users…Read More
New York Sun owner Dovid Efune is closing in on a deal to buy The Telegraph for more than GBP550 million ($719.5 million), which would end a 16-month battle for control of the conservative British national newspaper. (FT) Efune is poised to enter exclusive talks with current owner RedBird IMI, Financial Times reported, citing three…Read More
Publishers are starting to see referral traffic from artificial intelligence search engine Perplexity, according to data from three sources. (ADWEEK)Read More
The period from July through the end of September was busy for news. Calls for President Joe Biden to step down as the Democratic nominee grew louder after his disastrous performance during CNN’s presidential debate between him and former President Donald Trump. (TVNewser)Read More
Seven years since its launch, newsletter platform Substack has consolidated its dominance of the independent news business. Now, it’s trying to position itself as something more: a central platform for paying creators of all kinds, untethered to the news cycle and beyond the tough-to-monetize medium of text. (Semafor)Read More
On Friday, CNN released a short-form documentary (a “Flash Doc” in its parlance) called The Masculinity Campaign as an exclusive for CNN digital subscribers–the first of what is expected to be a regular cadence of exclusive video content for paying CNN users. (THR)Read More
Programmatic was supposed to use tech to match ad buyers to publishers seamlessly. The fact that ads still regularly land on spammy clickbait, while quality publishers continue to struggle, indicates that a little extra help is needed to link buyers up to quality. Enter new curation tech from adtech AI firm Chalice that looks to…Read More
The media companies Time and The Arena Group partnered with the technology vendor Webflix on Monday to bring short-form vertical video to their portfolio of open web properties. Using Webflix, publishers can insert the vertical video they are already creating for social media directly into their article pages, monetizing the content with a combination of…Read More
Generative AI is a fact of life at agencies and creative studios moving forward–that part is in the books. What’s missing are the actionable strategies for creatives and producers, from entry-level to vets, that ensure we’re all equipped to embrace AI as it becomes embedded in creative and business operations. Over the past year, we’ve…Read More
