Informa Plc has agreed to buy Ascential Plc, the owner of the Money20/20 and Cannes Lions conferences, for about £1.2 billion ($1.5 billion) in cash to expand its events business.Informa will pay Ascential investors about 568 pence per share,...
Big names chopped as News Corp redundancies hit newspapers and national reporting teamMurdoch’s Australian arm has quietly slashed tens of millions of dollars in costs to counter a slow advertising market and loss of revenue from Meta dealFollow our...
During a recent visit to the London offices of the fact-checking organization Full Fact, I noticed an important question written on a whiteboard as the team prepared to fact-check the United Kingdom’s July 4 elections.“What does a good election...
Earlier this month, The Washington Post debuted its first generative AI chatbot, Climate Answers. The chatbot’s promise is to take in readers’ most pressing questions about climate change science, policy, and politics, and turn out a brief summary of...
The Guardian says its new recipes app Feast has achieved more than 100,000 downloads since it soft-launched in April.The publisher is hoping readers will pay £2.99 per month to access its archive of 30,000 recipes. The app is available...
The Guardian US today announced that Georgia Warren has been appointed as editorial director, membership and supporter strategy. Warren has been working as the Guardian US membership editor in an interim capacity since January. She reports to Jane Spencer,...
In this final episode of our Digital News Report 2024 series, we look at a complex and often controversial subject which is trust in news. We look at what trust in news means, how this varies by different audiences and...
Magazine giant Condé Nast has sent a cease-and-desist letter to artificial intelligence search engine Perplexity, demanding that it stop using content from Condé Nast publications in its search results, according to a copy of the letter obtained by The...
Semafor will launch in the Middle East this September, marking a major milestone in its global expansion strategy, following its success in the U.S. and sub-Saharan Africa.Launching on September 16th, Semafor Gulf will feature original reporting and thrice-weekly newsletter...
BBC Commercial, the revenue-generating arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation, has revealed a dip in sales and earnings for the 2023/24 fiscal year.The sales of £1.9 billion ($2.4 billion) and EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization) of...
