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Symbolic.ai forms a partnership with News Corp to begin using the company’s AI-native publisher platform in the newsrooms of News Corp publications to augment research, writing and publishing. Symbolic assists with such tasks as audio transcription, document extraction, newsletter creation and fact-checking. The first platform on board will be Dow Jones Newswires, which is owned by Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch and other titles. Dow Jones Newswires claims its early use of Symbolic yielded productivity gains of as much as 90 percent for such tasks as audio transcription, document extraction, newsletter creation and fact-checking. “The Symbolic team’s deep editorial roots are obvious in their sincere appreciation of provenance, and their patent desire to create products that enhance, not deface, demean or devalue journalism,” said News Corp Chief Executive Robert Thomson.
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Mediaite launches a media newsletter that promises to give readers a summary of—media newsletters. The Mediaite One Sheet is being touted by the platform as “a fast, five-minute briefing featuring the hottest scoops, sharpest analysis, and biggest swings across each day’s media newsletters.” The new initiative will be headed up by Mediaite founding editor Colby Hall, who has served as a VP at HBO and iHeart Media. Among the newsletters and Substack pages set to be covered by the Mediaite One Sheet are Adweek’s On Background, Axios’s Media Trends, Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News, CNN’s Reliable Sources, the Columbia Journalism Review, Morning Brew, The Poynter Report and PR Daily. While Mediaite founder Dan Abrams told the New York Times that “there is definitely a level of meta here,” he is still betting that newshounds will shell out $79.99 per year to streamline their media newsletter reading habits.
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The Fund for American Studies, an educational nonprofit that hosts academic internship programs, launches the Journalism Excellence Fellowship, a program that will provide promising young journalists the opportunity to work alongside top writers, reporters, and media professionals. The Washington Post and Boston Globe will each host one Fellow on their editorial staffs in 2026. TFAS will continue to announce new Journalism Excellence Fellowship partnerships with news publications throughout 2026. “The Journalism Excellence Fellowship is designed to develop writers who can engage complex issues thoughtfully, challenge prevailing orthodoxies when warranted, and contribute original, well-reasoned perspectives to the national conversation,” said director of the TFAS Center for Excellence in Journalism Ryan Wolfe. “By investing in principled editorial voices early in their careers, we hope to strengthen the quality and credibility of opinion journalism for years to come.”
Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. has replaced CEO and former California Congressman Devin Nunes with Kevin McGurn, a seasoned media sales executive.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is being bought by the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, a nonprofit that is the parent organization of the Baltimore Banner... The British Broadcasting Corporation is axing approximately 2,000 jobs, about 10 percent of its work force... Snap, the company behind Snapchat, is also succumbing to layoff fever, announcing plans to lay off 16 percent of its employees, about 1,000 people.
CBS News Radio will go off the air on May 22, part of the axe-swinging managerial plan put into play by CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss... The Economist, which was first published in 1843, is changing hands. Canadian billionaire Stephen Smith has agreed to acquire a 26.9 percent stake in the publication from Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, her family and family foundation... Nexstar Media Group says it has closed its acquisition of TEGNA, the broadcast, digital media and marketing services company that was formed in 2015, when the Gannett Company split into two publicly traded companies.
USA TODAY brings on Jamie Stockwell as VP of news, effective March 30. Stockwell was most recently deputy managing editor of news for the Washington Post... YouTube expands its likeness detection capabilities to a pilot group of government officials, journalists and political candidates... The AP Fund for Journalism adds 50 news organizations to its local news program, bringing the total number of participating newsrooms to 100. 
Versant Media Group, the NBCUniversal cable TV spin-off, today reported its first financial results as 2025 revenues dipped 5.3 percent to $6.7B and standalone EBITDA dropped 9.1 percent to $2.2B.
