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.
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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.
Weekly Digest, Issue #169, 11 April 2026
Contrary to popular belief, a Mather Economics analysis suggests that while organic search is declining, this trend is part of a broader, multi-channel contraction affecting social and direct visits alike.
Weekly Digest, Issue #168, 4 April 2026
The transition toward an "agentic economy", one driven by autonomous AI agents, requires a fundamental shift in how technology is governed and structured.
Weekly Digest, Issue #167, 28 March 2026
The Future Today Strategy Group's Convergence Outlook 2026 proposes a framework of interconnected systemic change, arguing that isolated technological or social shifts no longer exist.
Weekly Digest Issue #166, 22 March 2026
Standards are not merely bureaucratic "alphabet soup"; they are the invisible blueprints that determine whether a frontier technology serves as a foundation for growth or a trap for future failure.
Weekly Digest, Issue #165, 7 March 2026
Expanding the Publisher’s Customer Surface in the AI-casting Era. The shared incentives that once supported quality journalism during the era of navigational and transactional search are now being replaced by AI-native exploratory queries. This change does more than just lower website traffic; it makes the old publisher acquisition funnel
Weekly Digest, Issue #164, 28 Feb 2026
The Nordic High-Trust Model is Defying the Digital Gravity of Big Tech. The Nordic region is widely seen as a global role model for democratic health and media freedom. While many countries face increasing polarisation and digital disruption, these five nations have maintained notable social cohesion. However, they are also
Weekly Digest Issue #163, 21 Feb 2026
The most resilient media companies in 2026 have realised they are no longer in the business of selling attention to the highest bidder. Instead, they operate as sophisticated content marketing engines for more dynamic, high-margin products.
Weekly Digest Issue #162, 14 Feb 2026
As AI usage has increased, people's attitudes towards it have evolved; they recognise the advantages of AI-saving time, reducing administrative tasks, assisting with learning, and unlocking creativity, while also expressing ongoing concerns about AI eroding what makes us human.
Weekly Digest Issue #161, 7 Feb 2026
This week's earnings reports from the US show that with the right focus, the Post can return to growth, and it's actually a pretty good time to be a premium news publisher.
Weekly Digest #160, 31 Jan 2026
The traditional economic bargain of the open web, where publishers provided content to search engines in exchange for traffic, is fundamentally broken. It needs a new economic model with collective licensing as a new economic layer for publishers and content creators.
Weekly Digest #159, 25 Jan 2026.
As tokenization moves into a critical financial market infrastructure, it can signal a similar shift for decentralised content provenance. Platforms and publishers would move from using it as an optional add-on to making it the default plumbing they quietly rely on.
Weekly Digest #158, 17 Jan 2026
Traditional decision cycles that rely on reports, news coverage, or analyst opinions often result in a delayed response to significant change. The future sends warnings. Those who notice first get ahead.
Weekly Digest #157, 10 Jan 2026
The digital world is evolving in unpredictable and challenging ways, where visibility is achieved through uncomfortable strategies, trust is a paradox, brand perception is a technical signal, and the very foundation of our shared digital history is crumbling.
Weekly Digest #156, 20 Dec 2025
If you're a publisher or digital professional, the last year has been a whirlwind of anxiety and confusion, as every available data point shows that they generate almost no click-through traffic to cited websites. What does this mean for our traffic and our SEO strategy?
Weekly Digest #155, 13 Dec 2025
A coalition of 1,500 publishers, web infrastructure providers, and standards bodies has launched the Really Simple Licensing (RSL) 1.0 standard. It represents a massive, collaborative effort to rebalance the relationship between content creators and the automated systems that consume their work.
Weekly Digest #154, 7 Dec 2025
The marginalisation of professionally reported narratives demands a new architecture for trust, one that enhances the legibility of the information supply chain without resorting to censorship or a state-controlled “Ministry of Truth.”
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Weekly Digest #153, 29 Nov 2025
In an AI-driven news ecosystem, creating value will not stem from producing content more efficiently or increasing the volume of content. Instead, real value will emerge from developing entirely new products, discovering innovative distribution models, or broadening the total addressable market.
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Weekly Digest #152, 23 Nov 2025
Ad spend in the creator ecosystem in 2025 is expected to rise 26% YoY to $37B, or four times faster than ad spend in media overall, set to grow 5.7% YoY, a new report from IAB found.
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Weekly Digest #151, 15 Nov 2025
The Tinius Trust «AI in Journalism Futures 2025» report explores plausible scenarios for journalism over the next 5 to 15 years within an emerging ecosystem in which AI will predominantly mediate.
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Weekly Digest #150, 8 Nov 2025
The world’s news industry invites you to join FACTS IN : FACTS OUT. Looking for a new architecture for content in the age of AI.