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Same Diagnosis, Seven Different Cures: Inside WAN-IFRA News Media Congress in Marseille
Sixty countries, three days, and one question nobody could answer: when the platforms stop sending clicks, what is journalism left with? Seven…
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Everyone’s Talking About AI Skills. 61% of Newsrooms Spend Nothing on Training.
A 450-response global benchmark on the distance between what newsrooms say and what they fund.
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Google is still sending you traffic. For now.
Three experts at WAN-IFRA assessed where search is heading, and what publishers should do while there is still something left to protect
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OpenAI Supports Publishers Everywhere except the Balance Sheet
OpenAI came to WAN-IFRA's World News Media Congress with a polished defence of its publisher record. On what publishers get back, it had less to say.
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SPUR Goes Global: WAN-IFRA and FIPP Back Publisher Alliance to Shape AI Licensing Market
SPUR adds 30 members and WAN-IFRA backing as publishers debate whether collective AI licensing beats Le Monde's go-it-alone.
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‘Lean Into Who You Are’: Viner on the Guardian’s Bet Against AI
Katharine Viner on the Guardian's reader-revenue model, the Scott Trust, and the one AI threat she won't hedge: losing the reader link.
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The New York Times calls AI’s founding act a theft
NYT publisher A.G. Sulzberger says the press has been too timid to fight AI. Now what?
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May 2026

Intent Is Everything. Pinterest Has More of It Than You Think
Caroline Orange-Northey is making the case for a platform the industry has been measuring wrong
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The diagnosis is agreed; the treatments diverge
A Reuters Institute webinar following the report on young news audiences shows that the structural diagnosis is now widely accepted. The operational…
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UK Advertising Takes a Government-Backed Growth Mission to Cannes Lions
The Advertising Association returns to Cannes Lions for a sixth year with a government-backed trade mission and £18bn in UK advertising exports behind…
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Publicis buys LiveRamp for $2.2bn, and the advertising industry loses its neutral middleman
The French holding company has spent seven years assembling a data stack its rivals can't easily replicate. The LiveRamp deal completes it — and creates…
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Newsrewired 2026: Six Sessions, One Recurring Question
The Economist's Luke Bradley-Jones on building in a post-search world, Reddit as a publisher channel, video podcasting and independent media key…
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