Dow Jones CEO: Storyful merger will help fuel growth
Video verification and business intelligence provider Storyful is being integrated into Dow Jones, 13 years after its acquisition by their joint parent company News Corp. Dow Jones chief executive...
View ArticleWall Street Journal video team recentres around ‘journalism that’s worth...
The Wall Street Journal has revamped its video strategy around the central aim of making “video journalism that’s worth paying for”. The strategy has six pillars: original/investigative journalism,...
View ArticleWSJ editor Emma Tucker on how title grew digital subs by a third to 4.3m
The Wall Street Journal’s recent run of subscriptions growth is not down to an accident or luck, editor-in-chief Emma Tucker has made clear. Digital-only subscriptions to The Wall Street Journal have...
View ArticlePerplexity claims News Corp tried to ‘entrap’ chatbot to make copyright case
Perplexity has accused Dow Jones and the New York Post of carrying out a fishing exercise and “entrapment” by attempting to encourage its AI chatbot to spit out verbatim copies of its articles to back...
View ArticleAmid WaPo woes five US news giants show how industry can grow
As the loss-making Washington Post announced major layoffs this week – five major US news businesses posted earnings updates which suggested their industry is far from in decline. The New York Times,...
View ArticleThe projects publishers are most proud of in 2025
2025 has been tough for many media companies but there has still been plenty of innovation and investment in new projects going on. Press Gazette thought these bright spots were worth celebrating. We...
View ArticlePremium news subscriptions offset falling tabloid web audience for News Corp
Growing subscription revenue at News Corp’s Dow Jones business news division is offsetting falling advertising and circulation revenue from its tabloid news titles. Overall, News Corp reported total...
View ArticleDow Jones spikes NUJ negotiations to recognise News UK-funded ‘News Union’
Dow Jones and Wall Street Journal UK management have halted voluntary recognition talks with the National Union of Journalists to instead recognise News Union, the union funded by its sister company...
View ArticleDow Jones launches first custom news feed for enterprise client
Dow Jones has launched a custom content feed for users of London Stock Exchange Group’s (LSEG) Workspace financial data platform. News and data from Dow Jones publications The Wall Street Journal,...
View Article100k Club: 2025 ranking of world’s biggest news publishers by digital...
The world’s biggest English-language paywalled news and magazine publishers now have more than 44.7 million digital subscribers between them, according to updated research from Press Gazette. Our last...
View ArticleDiversify or die? 23 media leaders reveal how to make news pay in 2025
Twenty-three media leaders representing some of the biggest names in US and UK publishing have shared their insight into the key news revenue trends for 2025. With big names like Estates Gazette,...
View ArticleNews Corp adds Google-powered AI summaries to Factiva search results
News Corp-owned business intelligence search engine Factiva is adding generative AI summaries to its search results. The news database, which is part of Dow Jones, has deployed Google’s Gemini...
View ArticleNews Corp seeks massive damages from AI firm Perplexity for stealing content
News Corp subsidiaries Dow Jones and NYP Holdings have filed a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit against artificial intelligence-powered search engine Perplexity, demanding their content is...
View ArticleNews Corp has begun legal moves against ‘AI aggressors’, CEO reveals
News Corp has begun taking “legal steps” against unspecified “AI aggressors”, chief executive Robert Thomson revealed as the company published its full-year results for 2023/24. The Sun, Times, New...
View ArticleBankers allowed to sue Dow Jones under GDPR over ‘missing $1bn’ article
The publisher of the Wall Street Journal has failed in its bid to dismiss a data protection lawsuit it claimed was being “brought under a false flag to avoid the rules that apply to defamation...
View ArticleDow Jones, NYT, Dotdash Meredith and Informa confound news business doomsters
Headlines like this in the FT – “Is AI about to kill what’s left of journalism?” – contribute to an atmosphere of gloom around the prospects for the news industry. But this week there were multiple...
View ArticleFormer Dow Jones membership chief Suzi Watford joins Washington Post
Suzi Watford, the former chief membership officer of Dow Jones and current Sirius XM chief growth officer, is moving to The Washington Post to take up the newly-created post of chief strategy officer....
View ArticleMore women in top roles as media industry gender pay gap slowly narrows
Three-quarters of the UK’s biggest media organisations increased the percentage of women in their top teams in the past year. Of 34 media organisations big enough to be required to report gender pay...
View ArticlePodcast 61: Why bad news can be good for business publishers with Dow Jones...
Dow Jones chief executive and Wall Street Journal publisher Almar Latour spoke to Press Gazette about how the financial news division of News Corp just managed to achieve its most profitable quarter...
View ArticleUncertain times have been good for Dow Jones, a rare 2023 publishing success...
This year has been a torrid one for most US and UK news publishers – but not for Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal. News Corp’s US financial news division has just reported the best quarter...
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