Industry developments logged as they happen: launches, closures, layoff rounds, acquisitions, grant awards and masthead changes. Entries carry dates, staffing numbers and dollar amounts when those become public. Suited to editors, recruiters, funders and researchers keeping a record of the field.
The January 2025 shift to community notes ends paid third-party partnerships in the U.S. and moves the verification burden somewhere new.
Owen Blackwood · August 28, 2026
Researchers use the term loosely in conversation but precisely in the data. Here's what the numbers behind it actually measure — and what they leave out.
Owen Blackwood · August 21, 2026
The Reuters Institute's 2026 report documents audiences leaving news websites for social and video platforms — the pattern that hollowed newspapers now repeating one layer up the stack.
William Elliott · August 1, 2026
Publishers keep signing content deals with AI developers — money now for archives whose future value nobody can price. The questions that protect the newsroom are contractual, not technical.
Owen Blackwood · July 9, 2026