At any given point in the news cycle, a couple of dominant subjects appear unavoidable for a couple of weeks. Some of this is down to hard news, but much of it is pre-planned: a big movie release; a sporting event; a political landmark. This is the stuff ... See more
Saturday’s abrupt announcement that Will Lewis was stepping down as publisher and chief executive of the Washington Post acted as a bookend to a week in which the troubled newspaper itself became a major news story. In the United States, reaction to the l... See more
In 1984, a group of musicians and artists associated with the Slovenian post-punk group Laibach formed NSK (Neue Slowenische Kunst), a collective dedicated to dismantling totalitarian kitsch by over-identifying with it. NSK fused fascist and Yugoslav stat... See more
In May 2024, speaking at Harvard University, OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman described the prospect of combining advertising with artificial intelligence as “uniquely unsettling”. He went further, characterising ads as “a last resort” for his company’s ... See more
Every year the Reuters Institute produces its state-of-the-industry report on global journalism and technology trends. For a long time now these reports have painted a picture of a global media industry beset by threats and facing hard choices. This one i... See more
