“The full £99 per year subscription price includes one free entry to both the Future of Media Awards and the British Journalism Awards, as well as a free copy of the first Press Gazette print annual which is planned for later this year.”

“At Axios, we ask our managers to explain why AI won’t be doing a specific job before green-lighting its approval. (Axios stories are always written and edited by humans.) Few want to admit this publicly, but every CEO is or will soon be doing this privately.”

“Buttigieg’s Substack already has over 380,000 followers, making him one of the most prominent Democrats now on the platform. But he is hardly the Magellan of the Substack movement. Since Donald Trump’s second inauguration, Democratic officials and strategists have started exploring the Substack seas in earnest.”

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. instead proposed “the creation of ‘in-house’ publications by his agency — the latest in the Trump administration’s attacks on scientific institutions.”

“Part of the reason Getty Images is pursuing legal action specifically against Stability AI and not other firms is because such legal pursuits are ‘extraordinarily expensive,’ Peters added…’We can’t pursue all the infringements that happen in one week. We can’t pursue it because the courts are just prohibitively expensive. We are spending millions and millions of dollars in one court case.”

“While the outlet’s two remaining communications officials still do proactive story pitching in addition to communications strategy work, the idea is to shift its communications strategy to focus more on highlighting new talent, product and partnership deals that underscore the Post’s transformation. That shift has left the paper with fewer resources to handle critical stories as it manages massive changes, including layoffs and buyouts.”

“The suit comes less than a year after a Times article revealed that Lau had been the target of an L.A. County Sheriff’s Department investigation that ‘was designed to intimidate and punish Lau for her reporting’ about a leaked list of deputies with a history of misconduct, Lau’s attorneys alleged in an emailed statement.”

“I think more than any other company, we prioritize sending traffic to the web. No one sends traffic to the web in the way we do. I look at other companies, newer emerging companies, where they openly talk about it as something they’re not going to do. We are the only ones who make it a high priority, agonize, and so on. We’ll engage, and we’ve always engaged.”

“The Trump family media company plans to raise $3 billion to buy cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin, in a bet on the kind of digital assets that have been championed by the U.S. president’s administration. Trump Media & Technology Group…is behind the Truth Social app and controlled by the president’s family.”

“The seminar that Freedman teaches at Columbia Journalism School began in 1991 as something of an experiment, testing whether students could, in the course of a semester, produce a book proposal to sell and hopefully publish. The results have proved his hunch: The class has led to 113 book contracts and 95 published books, out of some 675 people who have taken it. This spring Freedman taught the course for the last time.”

“Fifteen years ago, building national name recognition was a straight shot: a newspaper feature, a magazine cover, a morning show, a late-night hit, the trades, some local spots. Today, the New Media Circuit resembles a maddening sprawl: countless possible routes, none guaranteed.”

“Targeting video, the copy desk, the opinion section and people who’ve worked at the company for 10 or more years.”