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ChatGPT is sending users with problems such as being locked out of an Instagram account to journalists at publications like 404 Media www.404media.co/chatgpt-keep...

The Blade in Toledo plans to close by 31 December and lay off its 116 workers unless it finds a buyer for the newspaper by then. Its owner Block Communications has cited years of financial losses pressgazette.co.uk/news/journal...

Global advertising and marketing firm Stagwell, which wants to direct more adspend towards news organisations, is acquiring publisher monetisation network Freestar www.adexchanger.com/agencies/sta...

European and Canadian news publishers have united for a transatlantic coalition calling for legislation on AI to keep up with technological changes www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

🔊 The shortlist for the British Journalism Awards 2026 is here! Now in their 15th year, the British Journalism Awards celebrate work that is revelatory, has real-world impact and serves the public interest Thanks to headline sponsor Starling Bank pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazett...

Norwegian news organisations are taking Meta to court in bid to stop its sweeping new AI content access rights being imposed on publishers Legal action in Norway part of unusually “swift and united” response from international media industry against Meta pressgazette.co.uk/news/norwegi...

Politico's pop-up events venue Politico Pub produced more than two dozen stories and tripled its partnership revenue this year The Pub won the Live Journalism (National/International) prize at PG's Future of Media Awards pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Royal experts inexplicably linked to casino brands have been quoted more than 100 times in news articles about Harry and Meghan Casino brands such as Betfair, Smooth Spins and Cafe Casino send out commentary by royal experts such as Diana’s ex-butler Paul Burrell pressgazette.co.uk/news/more-th...

Ladbible owner LBG Media says it had a "mixed year" to 30 September as Facebook video and website drops led to a 50% decline in indirect revenue from platforms, offsetting 57% organic growth in direct revenue from working with brands uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/lbg-med...

Skydance, the newly merged company of Paramount and Warner Bros Discovery, is reportedly offering some employees a “one-time” voluntary buyout and introducing a company-wide five-day-a-week in-office policy variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Axios has unveiled its future strategy to “help spark deeper industrywide debate about preserving the best of media”, including plans to develop role-specific verticals with content for CEOs, CMOs, CCOs and CFOs www.axios.com/2026/10/24/a...

Food magazine Delicious has returned to the UK under a licensing partnership following the liquidation of its former publisher last year Anthem Publishing has partnered with News Corp, owner of Delicious in Australia, to publish the magazine in the UK pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/m...

PBS News has launched Press Pass, a paid membership costing $8 per month and offering a weekly behind-the-scenes newsletter, virtual events with journalists and sponsor-free podcasts to boost audience-funded revenue current.org/2026/10/pbs-...

Reuters has replaced Getty as the exclusive licensing partner for the Sky News video archive It follows Reuters replacing Getty as the agency partner for the 70-year ITN archive pressgazette.co.uk/news/reuters...

The European Commission has made €20.5m available through the Creative Europe programme to support journalism, media pluralism and literacy across Europe digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...

The Daily Mail is running up to 15 GEO tests across the US, UK and Australia as brands increasingly ask how they can appear in AI-generated answers. It plans to turn its AI visibility offering into an official product early next year digiday.com/media/the-da...

Rest of World, a nonprofit tech publisher, is suspending publication until the end of January as it searches for another organisation to absorb it - or faces closure after six years www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

Ex-60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens is joining creator journalism start-up Newpress, which has received $12m of investment led by The Atlantic's owner the Emerson Collective www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/b...

Christianity Today has lost more than half of 79 employees in the past 14 months due to resignations and layoffs, according to The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

Full story: The Telegraph is making up to 100 job cuts as it cites an ambition to transform into a “global, AI-powered” business, almost four months after its takeover by Axel Springer pressgazette.co.uk/news/telegra...

Around 100 Telegraph staff are believed to have been told they are losing their jobs, almost four months after its takeover by Axel Springer Focus being put on new revenue streams such as "video, audio, puzzles, events, B2B, licensing, commerce and new products" pressgazette.co.uk/news/journal...

Italian daily newspaper La Stampa has launched a digital operation in the US with aim to bridge curiosity gap between the two countries The newsroom has five people based in New York and two in Washington DC pressgazette.co.uk/north-americ...

Next week's Foresight news diary includes the pedestrianisation of Oxford Street, the Autumn Budget and Charles and Camilla in the Caribbean pressgazette.co.uk/news/news-di...

The NUJ has labelled Reform reporting ITV journalists to the police as "a thinly-masked Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation (SLAPP) style move" "This is the latest in a series of attacks against journalists by Reform UK" pressgazette.co.uk/news/reform-...

The NUJ has signed a recognition agreement at Politico following a process that included a Central Arbitration Committee ruling in the union's favour over the composition of the bargaining unit www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

A US judge has ordered Donald Trump to answer questions under oath in his defamation lawsuit against the BBC by 11 December www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Meta now appears to have delayed its controversial scraping terms and conditions change to 20 November News Media Association chief executive Theo Bamber said: “This delay is welcome, but it is a pause, not a solution" pressgazette.co.uk/news/uk-comp...

The Times has publicly apologised to Fifa president Gianni Infantino after publishing inaccurate claims about him, including that he had received a second salary from Fifa that was not disclosed inside.fifa.com/organisation...

The BBC will no longer have a dedicated education editor as part of a cost-cutting proposal that will see 100 jobs axed across BBC News. Roles of education editor and social affairs editor are to be combined into a single position as part of the changes www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...

Tommy Robinson has told a court that he wanted to “put pressure” on Daily Mail journalists and was left “terrified” after the publisher released a story about social media posts he made during the Southport riots while on holiday in Cyprus pressgazette.co.uk/news/tommy-r...

President Trump’s communications team has removed The Independent’s White House correspondent from the travelling press pool after the president “berated” the journalist in the Oval Office www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Substack has added the ability to insert sponsorship campaigns into podcasts without having to record them directly in or re-edit on.substack.com/p/introducin...

The BBC is ending The Catch Up, its nightly news bulletin aimed at 16 to 24-year-olds, as part of the closure of BBC Three deadline.com/2026/10/bbc-...

Hearst president and CEO Steven Swartz says the publisher currently has no plans to consolidate any magazines: "Obviously, some of our brands are doing better than others, but they all seem to be contributing right now to the greater good of the magazine company" www.axios.com/2026/10/21/h...

Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone has spoken out about the "existential" threat AI is posing to publishers by taking their content without sending users back to their websites www.thewrap.com/industry-new...

The FT has revealed Axel Springer CEO Mathias Dopfner pitched a deal to buy the European arm of Tiktok www.ft.com/content/1712...

Popular AI chatbots have been found to often ignore local publishers, even on queries about local issues such as council decisions and crime ChatGPT was found to cite national newspapers (18.8%) almost as much as local ones (21.2%), even on a local query pressgazette.co.uk/news/ai-answ...

Security issues in PHP, the programming language underpinning Wordpress and other major web platforms, could put millions of websites at risk by exposing sensitive data. Site owners being urged to update affected systems immediately or take sites offline until secure www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/critica...

Meta T&Cs latest: UK peer warns changes would affect "almost every UK news publisher, and it is clearly uncompetitive leverage of Meta’s strategic market position" At least one US local publisher has already decided to leave Facebook and Instagram pressgazette.co.uk/news/uk-comp...

The White House counsel’s office has given Politico 48 hours to retract or correct recent stories about alleged staff drama, threatening "unspecified consequences" if it fails to comply www.axios.com/2026/10/21/w...

NUJ Birmingham & Coventry branch has passed a motion in support of colleagues at Reach following the company's announcement of large-scale redundancies. The branch warned that six general reporters would be left to cover the West Midlands population www.nuj.org.uk/resource/bra...

Hyphen, a news outlet focused on Muslim life in the UK and Europe, is set to close after four years, affecting around 18 journalists The UAE parent company has now decided to withdraw funding. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Canadian publishers Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press have filed a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic. They are the first publishers being tracked by Press Gazette to sue Anthropic, following behind only Reddit pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/ne...

UK competition watchdog ‘very alive’ to risks from sweeping Meta AI scraping change for publishers Competition and Markets Authority speaking to Meta about imminent T&C change. pressgazette.co.uk/news/uk-comp...

ITV said it "stands by its journalism" and the Reform programme was "produced in compliance with the Ofcom Broadcasting Code, relevant laws, and its broadcast is in the public interest... "Should the police get in touch we would fully cooperate.”

Reform UK said it has reported ITV to the police following the broadcaster’s expose which revealed racist remarks by members of the party The allegations involve an undercover reporter "doctoring" a passport and others canvassing for Reform in Portsmouth pressgazette.co.uk/news/reform-...

Slate editor-in-chief of four years Hillary Frey has become its new CEO and will continue to lead the newsroom while overseeing the business. One of her key aims is to boost subscriptions www.axios.com/2026/10/20/s...

Video is now literally at the heart of The Sun newsroom with its new studio and From The Newsroom series "In a world of AI where we’re inundated with fake videos and fake news, it’s putting trusted faces who are experts in their own field in front of the camera" pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...