Weekly Digest, Issue #181, 18 July 2026
Stop trying to be an "AI company". The future belongs to "OI companies" that treat first-hand origination as their primary asset and use AI merely as a tool to scale it.
Weekly Digest, Issue #180, 4 July 2026
Mather Economics data challenge the notion that platform disruption (e.g., changes in social media or search algorithms) is the sole cause of audience decline.
Weekly Digest, Issue #179, 27 June 2026
Why asking whether AI is better at our jobs than us is misleading: Shifting our view from thinking in terms of tasks to thinking in terms of systems
Weekly Digest, Issue #178, 20 June 2026
The Reuters Institute's DRN report identifies 2026 as a milestone year in which pathways between journalism and the public have become less direct and more fragmented. Audiences are increasingly drifting away from "owned and operated" branded properties.
Weekly Digest, Issue #177, 14 June 2026
The overwhelming majority of AI citations (approximately 84%) come from earned media. Paid and advertorial content is virtually non-existent in the citation ecosystem, accounting for a mere 0.3% of links.
Weekly Digest, Issue #176, 6 June 2026
In the media ecosystem, major players must decide whether to extract resources or invest in diversity and complexity. Collective action is not about the strong helping the weak, but about preserving the foundation on which all depend.
Weekly Digest, Issue #175, 23 May 2026
AI agents increasingly mediate the relationship between publishers and audiences. However, emerging technical protocols, alongside global collective licensing efforts, offer a framework for publishers to reclaim authority and secure compensation.
Weekly Digest, Issue #174, 17 May 2026
The emerging market for AI content licensing is forming under conditions that mirror the structurally damaging relationships previously established between news publishers and search/social media platforms.
Weekly Digest, Issue #173, 10 May 2026
The publishers positioned for the AI moment are the ones who did the structural work before the moment arrived. Most newsrooms didn't.
Weekly Digest, Issue #172, 3 May 2026
The news industry isn't declining; it's being repriced, argues Francesco Marconi in his latest essay.
Weekly Digest, Issue #171, 25 April 2026
Beyond the Chatbot: Navigating the Reinvention of Information, a near future in which artificial intelligence serves as a primary intermediary.
Weekly Digest, Issue #170, 18 April 2026
The FT argues that while social media has fueled populism and polarisation by amplifying fringe voices, artificial intelligence may have the opposite effect.