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New York Times chief: How and why publishers should fight AI ‘tsunami’

New York Times chief: How and why publishers should fight AI ‘tsunami’

Published by Sam Flores

New York Times chairman and publisher AG Sulzberger at the WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress on 1 June 2026. Picture: WAN-IFRA New York Times chairman and publisher AG Sulzberger has urged publishers to do more to fight the oncoming “tsunami” from AI giants jeopardising the information ecosystem. Sulzberger set out ways for news companies “both to stand up to abuses by AI companies and to prepare our own organisations to succeed in this new era” in a keynote speech on Monday at the WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress in Marseille. Warning that AI companies are committing “brazen theft” of intellectual property, Sulzberger revealed the New York Times has already spent more than $20m on its lawsuits against OpenAI/Microsoft and Perplexity since December 2023. This compares to the more than $2bn he revealed as the cost to The New York Times in 2025 alone of producing nearly half a million pieces of journalism, including articles, photos, videos and podcasts. Despite its strong stance, The New York Times has also done AI licensing deals such as with …

Spiritually burned out? Tish Harrison Warren and some ancient monks have advice.

Spiritually burned out? Tish Harrison Warren and some ancient monks have advice.

Published by Sam Flores

(RNS) — Tish Harrison Warren had everything going for her. A job as a priest at a church she loved. A family she adored. Good friends. And a dream gig writing about faith for The New York Times. And yet, she, like millions of Americans, was exhausted. And God had gone silent. “I would sit to pray, but it felt as though the line had gone dead. I did not feel a sense of God’s nearness. I didn’t feel much of anything at all,” writes Warren in her new book, “What Grows in Weary Lands,” out Tuesday (May 12) from Penguin Random House. “And I’d begin to think, is anyone there?” Warren, who is ordained in the Anglican Church in North America, found a way forward with the help of some friends and advice from the desert fathers and mothers, a group of ancient spiritual guides who fled into the desert to find God more than 1,500 years ago. Their advice, Warren writes, helped her build a sturdier spirituality for taking on the modern world. …

2026 ranking of top channels

2026 ranking of top channels

Published by Sam Flores

News page on Youtube, 27 April 2026. The most-subscribed English-language news publishers on Youtube grew their subscriber base by an average of 16% and over the past fifteen months, Press Gazette analysis shows. The comparison covers 115 leading video news publishers that featured in the previous Press Gazette ranking in January 2025. A separate ranking of 28 news influencers with more than one million followers on Youtube saw them grow subscribers by an average of 20% year on year. According to Press Gazette research, there are now 119 English language news publishers with more than one million Youtube subscribers and 31 news influencers in this category. This is Press Gazette’s third ranking of news publishers on Youtube with at least one million subscribers, following earlier editions in June 2022, October 2023 and 2025. The figures underline Youtube’s growing role in news distribution. Youtube claimed that viewers watched more than 15 billion hours of news on the platform in the first half 2025 and it said half of all poll voters are now getting more news …

Does David Brooks Know the Secrets of Lasting Love? I Went to Yale to Find Out

Does David Brooks Know the Secrets of Lasting Love? I Went to Yale to Find Out

Published by Sam Flores

During the talk, Brooks joked about the seeming incongruity of teaching courses in emotional realism under the shingle of a public policy school. “I taught a course on making the big commitments of life, but we had to give it a name that was consistent with Jackson’s mission. So when I taught a course on marriage, making commitments, finding your vocation, we called it Successful Global Leadership,” he said. “It didn’t matter what the official title of the course was called—the students called it Therapy With Brooks.” The talk was less an instruction manual than an anthropological description of the various stages of love. First comes the glance, said Brooks, a moment of electrically charged connection. He illustrated the principle with the story of a hairdresser in Houston who married a client soon after their first meeting. “That’s love at first sight. That’s not typical—usually it takes a little longer,” Brooks said. “I myself have never experienced love at first sight. People I’ve been in love with, I was friends with for years.” Then comes …

March Google core update brings modest gains for news websites

March Google core update brings modest gains for news websites

Published by Sam Flores

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 …

US newspaper circulations 2025: Washington Post print declines 21% in a year

US newspaper circulations 2025: Washington Post print declines 21% in a year

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New York newspapers report on the previous night’s invasion of Ukraine by Russian military forces. Picture: rblfmr/Shutterstock The combined average daily print circulation at 25 of the largest audited newspapers in the US fell by 12.5% in the year to the end of September 2025, according to new data from Alliance for Audited Media (AAM). Figures supplied exclusively to Press Gazette show that only one title among the top 25 by combined print and digital circulations saw a rise in print circulation year on year. However, AAM has flagged that its circulation data does not include all digital newspaper subscriptions, and the non-profit organisation rolled out new digital reporting rules in February 2026. [Read more: Alliance for Audited Media to modernise publisher digital circulation reporting] The largest year-on-year decline was at The Washington Post, which saw its average daily print circulation down by 21.2% to 87,576 in the six months to 30 September 2025, from 111,171 a year earlier. During this period, the paper saw “significant subscription cancellations”, alongside the Los Angeles Times, after its …

Biggest subscription news websites 2026: Exclusive ranking

Biggest subscription news websites 2026: Exclusive ranking

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Digital subscriptions pages or homepages for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Zealand Herald, Mail+ and Apple News+, all screenshotted on 5 March 2026 New entrants on Press Gazette’s 100k Club ranking of the biggest subscription news websites in the world include in 2026 include The Irish Times Group, Goalhanger and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Press Gazette’s 100k Club ranks English-language publishers with at least 100,000 paying digital subscribers. Fifty-nine news and magazine publishers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India appear on the list. Scroll down or click here for the full ranking. This compares with just 24 titles making the grade as members of the 100k Club when Press Gazette launched this ranking in 2020. The New York Times (12.21 million digital subscribers, up 13% year on year – but some are only non-news products) makes up 23% of the subscriptions on the entire list of 59 publishers. Substack now has more than five million paying subscribers to publications on its platform (from whom it …

Who’s suing AI and who’s signing: Danish publishers take OpenAI to court

Who’s suing AI and who’s signing: Danish publishers take OpenAI to court

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A lawsuit has been launched against OpenAI in Denmark on behalf of news publishers whose work was believed to have been used to train ChatGPT. The Chicago Tribune and New York Times sued Perplexity at the end of 2025, while multiple publishers have signed AI licensing deals with Meta. Meanwhile Getty Images failed to secure an AI copyright precedent in the UK after suing Stability AI. And The Hollywood Reporter and Variety publisher Penske Media has become the first news publisher to sue Google over the impact of its AI Overviews in search results on traffic and revenue. A small number of news publishers have followed in the footsteps of The New York Times to sue OpenAI and other AI companies over the unauthorised use of their content – now including nine more US regionals owned by Alden Global Capital subsidiary Media News Group, as well as US News & World Report. However many more now have signed deals with the AI companies which commonly include the use of their content as reference points for …

News subscriptions prices and offers tracked in 2026

News subscriptions prices and offers tracked in 2026

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Subscriptions pages for the Financial Times, The Telegraph, The Scotsman and Bloomberg Media on 23 January 2026 Digital news subscriptions prices have increased by an average of 3% in the UK for the second year running, according to Press Gazette analysis. However many publications were offering discounts in January of up to 89%, indicating that many consumers may be able to avoid paying the full price. Of 23 publications included in Press Gazette’s dataset both in January 2025 and January 2026, ten increased their annual digital subscription prices in the past year. Six saw no change in annual price and seven reduced the cost of their digital subscription. As a result the average percentage change among these 23 digital news subscriptions was 3%, close to the UK inflation rate of 3.6% (2.7% in the US) over the past 12 months. This contrasts to UK national newspaper cover prices, which were up by an average of 10% in the past year as publishers look to make up for falling newsstand sales and advertising. From January 2024 …

Amid WaPo woes five US news giants show how industry can grow

Amid WaPo woes five US news giants show how industry can grow

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People website, Bloomberg website (Shutterstock/Civil), New York Times subscription page, and News Corporation New York office (Shutterstock/JHVEPhoto) As the loss-making Washington Post announced major layoffs this week – five major US news businesses posted earnings updates which suggested their industry is far from in decline. The New York Times, People Inc, Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters all saw full-year revenue growth in 2025. And News Corp reported growth for the first six months of its financial year (which starts in July). Publishers are facing tough competition in the advertising market from Google owner Alphabet which reported crossing $400bn in revenue for the first time in 2025 this week with search revenue up 17%. Publishers have complained bitterly over the use of their content without payment in Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. At least five publishers have sued Google over what they described as its “deceptive and manipulative” adtech practices. But subscriptions growth and reader revenue are helping these businesses to grow despite online advertising challenges. People Inc records strongest digital growth in five quarters despite …