Press Gazette Future of Media US
Press Gazette's weekly dose of strategic insight about the future of news media aimed at US readers.
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How Advance Local went from zero to 250,000 paying online | FT now makes $546 per subscriber (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Press Gazette Future of Media US newsletter on Friday, 25 September.🧱Howdy partners! Dom here, standing in for Charlotte who is currently on a cultural tour of Italy.US local news publisher Advance Local has gone from zero to 250,000 paying digital subscribers in the space of eight years.How did they do it? What’s in the secret sauce?SVP for digital consumer revenue at Advance Local Ann Poe did not have any easy answers for me. The winning recipe is, it turns out, pretty complicat
FT’s ‘red button’ AI clauses | US boosts Guardian revenue (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Press Gazette Future of Media US newsletter on Friday, 18 September.🔴 Financial Times CEO Jon Slade has revealed how the FT’s AI licensing deals with Google and OpenAI include “red button” clauses whereby it can pull the plug if it is unhappy with the way content is being used.It reminded me of what The Atlantic’s CEO Nicholas Thompson <a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/09/the-
Newsweek, Daily Mail and Business Insider hardest hit in traffic charts | IB Times freelance earns $2.62 for 782 words (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Press Gazette Future of Media US newsletter on Friday, 11 September.📉 Our latest top-50 traffic ranking for US news websites shows 41 titles down year on year in August.Newsweek, Daily Mail and Business Insider are among the fastest fallers.The data helps explain why so many are ditching ad-funded business models based on scale in favour of building a smaller cohort of loyal readers willing to pay for content they love.
Politico boosts AI innovation with new CMS | Bloomberg CEO’s leadership lessons (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Press Gazette Future of Media US newsletter on Friday, 4 September.👩💻 The CMS can be the most hated part of newsroom life (it is for me, anyway!)It can eat up hours of time editing, reducing the focus on original work.Politico thinks moving to headless CMS Sanity (also used by Conde Nast and Semafor) is already unlocking innovation, partly via the ease of integrating AI tools being built by staff to help their reporting.<a href="https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/digital-journ
Axios tips for LLM monetisation | Inside merger of two Texas non-profit newsrooms (opens the original)
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Welcome to the Press Gazette Future of Media US newsletter on Friday, 28 August.📋 The Axios ‘Smart Brevity’ format appears to be as beloved by humans and robots alike for making content easy to digest.Alice Brooker spoke to Axios publisher Nicholas Johnston for the latest in our Masterclass series, sharing tips about how the newsbrand is maximising LLM visibility and monetisation.It is partway
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