In the past two decades, newsrooms learned how to make journalism visible to Google. They built SEO teams, trained their journalists to rewrite headlines and structured articles around search queries.

Many Indian television channels looked like an animated video game, with graphics and crude sounds, from 7 to 10 May, when India and Pakistan dropped air missiles on each other before what looks like ...

The idea of newsrooms run by AI agents might be a nightmare for many journalists. But these newsrooms are no longer hypotheticals. They already exist. While many outlets are still figuring out how to ...

First, people’s thoughts about whether the platforms themselves should be responsible for their own content policies or whether governments should intervene (who should be responsible for content ...

When she was still a child, Débora Duque, now 34, decided she wanted to be a journalist. And not just any kind of journalist: she wanted to cover politics for Jornal do Commercio, the most influential ...

This report by Nic Newman looks ahead at the trends in media and technology that will shape the news industry in 2018. This will be a critical year for the relationship between publishers and ...

In this episode we explore how people are consume news in 2026, the role of platforms, levels of trust and interest, AI chatbots, news influencers and more.

Documentaries have for many decades inhabited the schedules of public broadcasters. They have chronicled the lives and institutions of western democracies. In the past two decades, however, ...

The challenges facing the industry are clear: news brands rely on third-party platforms to reach audiences; they struggle to maintain readers’ trust and convince them to pay for their work; their ...

On 1 November 2024 the canopy above the entrance to the main railway station in Serbia’s second-largest city collapsed. Sixteen people died, crushed under the weight of the concrete roof that fell on ...

On a flight from London to Boston last year, I was sat next to an orthodox priest who spent most of the journey talking to Grok. I have no idea what the conversation was about. But whatever it was, it ...

Since 2022, Israel has plunged from 86th to 112th on RSF’s Press Freedom Index score. Since Hamas’ attacks on 7 October 2023, almost 200 journalists have been killed in Gaza by the Israel Defence ...