Every publisher strategy deck now has a slide on diversification, and the reasoning is sound. Google referrals are shrinking, so publishers are building ...

Media companies face a difficult growth equation. Expanding content and audience reach does not necessarily translate into stronger financial returns, ...

Publishers are accustomed to hearing bad news about trust in journalism. But Gallup's latest findings offer a glimmer of improvement: 33% of Americans now ...

DCN’s Q3 2026 Digital Subscription Tracking Report finds that household subscription spending continues to rise, largely because of higher prices.

Early audience growth provides a starting point for evaluating a new editorial product. For media executives, the next question is whether that interest ...

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week: NiemanLab | ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker ...

AI expands the content supply while making discovery harder. Media companies need to help audiences find relevant work and build experiences that bring them back. Generative AI can reduce production ...

For publishers, it has long seemed obvious that when AI answers a user’s question directly, there is less reason to click through to the source. Over the past year, research has repeatedly confirmed ...

Podcast powerhouse Goalhanger attracted more than 1.8 billion views and streams across its audio, video and social content in 2025. More than 250,000 people also pay for membership clubs attached to ...

AI is emerging as a news intermediary, adding new complexity to how publishers reach audiences, maintain direct relationships, and capture the value of their journalism. News discovery is increasingly ...

Publishers can’t make informed decisions about which AI systems to block, allow, or license unless they can easily understand who is consuming their content and why. Publishers are being pushed to ...