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Viner says Guardian has seen decade of booming foreign and reader revenue

Viner says Guardian has seen decade of booming foreign and reader revenue

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Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner speaking at WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress on 1 June 2026. Picture: WAN-IFRA More than 80% of revenue coming from outside the UK at The Guardian did not exist ten years ago, editor-in-chief Katharine Viner has revealed. Viner was speaking at the WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress about The Guardian’s ongoing strategy to become more global, more reader revenue funded, more human and more digital. Axios reported last month that The Guardian’s US operation made revenue of $81.4m (£60.4m) in the year to 31 March 2026, up 25% year on year and the highest since the newsbrand launched in the US 15 years ago. US revenue came mostly from digital reader revenue (71%). Some 8% of Guardian Media Group revenue came from outside the UK ten years ago, increasing to more than 40% today. Viner told the Congress that in the year to 31 March 2026, digital reader revenue from people who pay regularly as “recurring supporters” and one-off donations was up 17% to £125m. Two years ago in 2023/2024 digital …

Guardian photographer ‘exposed to risk’ after Farage shares press card picture

Guardian photographer ‘exposed to risk’ after Farage shares press card picture

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage gives a speech to supporters on Clacton Pier in Essex on 3 July 2024. Picture: PA Media/Ian West Reform leader Nigel Farage has said being visited by a Guardian photographer underlined why he needed extra security. The Guardian has issued a statement in defence of its journalist after Reform UK leader Nigel Farage shared an image of the photographer’s press card on social media. The photographer was taking photos of Farage from a public path, according to The Guardian, while working on a story related to allegations that the Reform leader failed to disclose a £5m gift from a Thailand-based crypto billionaire. Farage said, sharing a picture of the journalist’s press card on social media: “My security team just found this journalist from The Guardian at my property. This is exactly why I need security. Completely unacceptable.” The Guardian, which broke the story on 29 April that Farage has received a secret personal donation from a Thailand-based billionaire, said the photographer showed his NUJ Press Card when asked for identification …

How AI overviews are killing publisher traffic by topic data

How AI overviews are killing publisher traffic by topic data

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Google AI Overviews result for ‘hantavirus symptoms’ query. Below the AIO and first result there is a Top Stories box including articles from the BBC, CNN and The Independent Health is the topic vertical most vulnerable to losing clicks as a result of Google’s AI Overviews, according to new Sistrix data shared with Press Gazette. Looking at data from three months at the start of 2026, Sistrix estimates that health sections on major news brands will have seen links to articles supplanted by an AI-written summary 72% of the time in Google search results. Sistrix has found that for keywords where an AI Overview appears at the top of Google’s search results, the average rate of people clicking on the first search result drops from 27% to 11%, meaning a clickthrough decline of almost 60%. Healthline was the fastest-falling major news website in the UK in March, losing 48% of its audience year on year according to Ipsos iris. The second most heavily-affected vertical was tech (where AI overviews appear 47% of the time) followed …

Mediahuis joins UK news giants as founder member of SPUR

Mediahuis joins UK news giants as founder member of SPUR

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Gert Ysebaert, CEO of Mediahuis Group, speaks at the WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress in Copenhagen on 28 May 2024. Picture: WAN-IFRA Mediahuis has joined the SPUR coalition of major news organisations aiming to develop shared AI licensing standards for the industry. Mediahuis joins SPUR (Standards for Publisher Usage Rights) alongside the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, the BBC and Sky News who were attached when the initiative went public in February. The intention is for SPUR to help shape rules and infrastructure around how news content is used in AI models, creating common standards around permission and payment. Mediahuis chief executive Gert Ysebaert said: “The SPUR coalition addresses one of the key challenges facing our industry today: ensuring that quality journalism is used responsibly in the development of AI. “Shared technical standards, licensing frameworks and reliable measurement tools are essential to secure a fair and transparent value exchange for our content. “I believe this is a defining moment for European publishers as well, to join forces so that together we can actively shape …

Publishers oppose Google using content for ‘fine-tuning’ AI models

Publishers oppose Google using content for ‘fine-tuning’ AI models

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Google AI Overview answer to ‘what is fine-tuning in ai’ query News publishers have disputed a claim from Google that using their content to “fine-tune” its AI models contains “no realistic prospect of harm” to them. ‘Fine-tuning’ enables an AI model that has already been trained to add new data to respond to a specific prompt or task. Google told the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority that there is “no realistic prospect of harm to publishers in respect of training/fine-tuning of AI models for search and search generative AI features. “Fine-tuning helps the model learn how to process information rather than what current information to display; this internal processing does not create a substitute for publisher websites. A model relying solely on patterns learned during training would be static, often outdated, and prone to hallucinations.” The CMA has said it is not minded to provide separate controls for fine-tuning but publishers asked it to reconsider. The CMA has published responses from several major news organisations to its consultation relating to proposed conduct requirements to be …

March Google core update brings modest gains for news websites

March Google core update brings modest gains for news websites

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Google search results for ‘Strait of Hormuz’ search including The Guardian, The Independent and ITV News on 10 April 2026 The Guardian, Money Saving Expert, Substack and The New York Times appear to have been the biggest winners from Google’s latest core update, according to new Sistrix data. But overall there was “little impact” on news websites, SEO consultant Barry Adams told Press Gazette. Google described the rollout as “a regular update designed to better surface relevant, satisfying content for searchers from all types of sites”, the standard wording for its core algorithm updates when there is not a specific behaviour being targeted. It rolled out between 27 March and 8 April, following quickly behind a separate update designed to target spam sites. Sistrix has now shared data showing how the search visibility index scores of major UK and US news websites changed during that period. In the UK, The Guardian saw the greatest absolute visibility gain of 9.014 points, rising to 228.076 – already by far the highest visibility score for a newsbrand. The …

Which journalists and news outlets are most cited by AI?

Which journalists and news outlets are most cited by AI?

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Specialist journalists and publications are most likely to be cited in AI answers Specialist journalists and publications appear to be among those most likely to be cited in AI answers. PR database Muckrack has launched a new feature showing which journalists and outlets are most frequently cited in AI-generated answers. New badges on the service signify whether journalists and outlets have the highest AI visibility, high AI visibility or some AI visibility. The ranking is based on 15 million AI response citations gathered by Muckrack in what it calls “generative pulse data”. Muckrack has submitted millions of queries to the main AI answer engines, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and ChatGPT, and logged the number of times particular journalists and publications were cited. The research found that a quarter of all website links cited by AI engines are journalistic. Exclusive data shared with Press Gazette revealed which journalists and publications are most likely to be cited by LLMs. Former Business Insider CEO Henry Blodget is number one among the most frequently cited journalists globally on LLMs. Last …

Who are the UK political editors?

Who are the UK political editors?

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All of the UK’s biggest political stories, both print and broadcast, have been approved by the outlets’ political editors. They are the minds behind every news story and coverage involving politics, and these names climbed the journalism ladder thanks to their innovative and critical thinking. Political editors are some of the best-known names in the industry, bringing in scoops from their overflowing books as well as typically juggling a team of political correspondents and reporters. These are the country’s main political editors across traditional newspaper outlets and broadcasters, from the BBC to The Sunday Times and GB News to the Daily Mail. Who are the UK national newspaper political editors? The Guardian – Pippa Crerar (2022 – present) Pippa Crerar picks up the Politics Journalism award at the British Journalism Awards 2022. Picture: ASV Photography Ltd for Press Gazette Pippa Crerar, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, attended Newcastle University, obtaining a degree in English. She later took a postgraduate course at City, University of London in newspaper journalism. Crerar began her journalistic career in 1999 when …

Guardian’s first Substack experiment is republishing food newsletter

Guardian’s first Substack experiment is republishing food newsletter

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The page on The Guardian’s website for the Feast newsletter The Guardian has decided to experiment with Substack by recreating its weekly food newsletter Feast on the platform. The Substack play is part of Project Berger, the multi-year transformation plan designed to make The Guardian “more visual, digital and experimental” as first outlined by editor-in-chief Katharine Viner to Press Gazette in October. Feast has more than 100,000 subscribers and open rates of almost 70%, according to The Guardian. It is one of almost 60 newsletters at The Guardian following a pivot over the past four years away from link-led automated dispatches towards authored emails with more original reporting and analysis. In total The Guardian reports having more than five million unique newsletters subscribers. By cross-publishing Feast on Substack, Feast can make use of social media style features on Substack like the Notes feed. Readers can now sign up for the Substack version here. Substack also has recommendation features that mean, for example, food publishers can recommend each other to their subscribers. Some Guardian food writers, …

Guardian source messaging tech bringing in ‘much higher quality’ of tips

Guardian source messaging tech bringing in ‘much higher quality’ of tips

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Screenshots from The Guardian’s secure messaging platform on its app The Guardian says it is bringing in a “much higher quality” of tips from sources since its new secure messaging technology launched last year. Secure Messaging, which rolled out in June, uses espionage-style techniques to conceal and encrypt messaging sent by sources to journalists within The Guardian app. Only the relevant journalists have the decryption key to view the messages before they disappear after 14 days. And because the app is constantly sending signals from every phone on which it has been downloaded, sources have better cover than most other encrypted services. Secure Messaging has just been named a finalist for best new digital product in the International News Media Association’s Global Media Awards. Luke Hoyland, who leads The Guardian’s investigations and reporting developer teams, told Press Gazette the impact of the product has been “beyond our expectations”. Hoyland said the ratio of tips received to stories is now “profoundly different”. He said: “We’ve had so many stories come from this platform, lots of top …