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News publishers expect search traffic to drop 43% by 2029: Report
News executives expect search referrals to drop by more than 40% over the next three years, as search engines continue evolving into AI-driven answer engines, according to a new Reuters Institute report. That shift is squeezing publisher traffic…
Publishers are 'stepping back' from LGBTQ+ books amid bans & the current GOP president
2025 and the return to a GOP president, as well as ongoing efforts to ban books by and about LGBTQ+ people across the country, have created a chilling effect in the publishing industry, according to a new report from The Hill. Several industry…
Publisher's Platform: MAHA my Ass
Hepatitis A is a viral liver infection. It is extremely contagious and spreads through feces, often through contaminated food or close person-to-person contact. It can cause sudden liver failure or chronic liver inflammation. The CDC received…
FAA Publishes Unleaded Avgas Transition Plan Daft
The FAA released its draft Transition Plan to Unleaded Aviation Gasoline for public comment Monday, outlining its proposed approach to eliminating leaded avgas from the general aviation fleet. The plan was developed in response to Section 827 of…
Why game publishers are investing in K-pop agencies
Stagnant domestic gaming market pushes publishers toward globally scalable K-pop IP Krafton, the publisher of PUBG: Battlegrounds, is set to invest 100 billion won ($67.9 million) in The Black Label, according to a local media report Monday. The…
Sam Eades and Sophie Wilson join S&S as publishers of new imprint in job share
L-R: Sam Eades and Sophie Wilson Sam Eades and Sophie Wilson have joined Simon & Schuster (S&S) UK as publishers in a job share, heading up new commercial fiction imprint Skylight. The imprint will sit under executive publisher Phoebe Morgan as…
Texans vs. Steelers live updates: NFL playoffs wild-card game score, predictions, odds and latest
Follow our live coverage of tonight's AFC wild-card game as Houston squares off against Pittsburgh The Houston Texans, winners of nine straight games, travel to Pittsburgh to face the AFC North champion Steelers in the final game of the wild-card…
Newcastle National Writing Centre to get £1m funding boost - BBC News
A £1m funding boost for efforts to create a national writing centre has been approved. Bolbec Hall in Newcastle was originally slated as the site for the centre, but the latest plan is to establish it in the Old Post Office building on St…
14 years after Witcher 2 publisher Bandai Namco sued CD Projekt for cutting DRM, ex-studio head and new GOG owner doubles down on anti-DRM stance: 'Most corporate people, they make plain stupid decisions'
GOG is under new(ish) ownership, as CD Projekt co-founder Michał Kiciński has bought back the digital PC game store from his old company. While there's a change in management, it seems there won't be a change in philosophy, as…
X Launches Antitrust Lawsuit Against Music Industry
X's tagline for 2026 may well be “one battle after another,” with the platform launching yet another legal case, this time against the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA), along with a group of publishers, over music…
DeepSeek founder's latest paper proposes new model training to bypass GPU limits
A technical paper co-authored by Liang Wenfeng, the founder of Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek, and a group of Peking University researchers has proposed a new model training technique, which they say can facilitate…
Bank of England governor in clash with Trump over future of America's top banker
Get our award-winning daily news email featuring exclusive stories, opinion and expert analysis I would like to be emailed about offers, event and updates from Evening Standard. Read our privacy notice. Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey was at…
Energy & Utilities Roundup: Market Talk
The latest Market Talks covering Energy and Utilities. Published exclusively on Dow Jones Newswires at 4:20 ET, 12:20 ET and 16:50 ET. 0902 GMT – China may see more voluntary export curbs in 2026, Citi economists say in a note. The country…
Basic Materials Roundup: Market Talk
The latest Market Talks covering Basic Materials. Published exclusively on Dow Jones Newswires at 4:20 ET, 12:20 ET and 16:50 ET. 0902 GMT – The China-Japan dispute will likely have little impact on JL Mag Rare-Earth, Citi analysts say in a…
Oil prices jump after Trump threatens Iran tariffs - latest updates
Global central bank officials are understood to be working on a statement to express support for Jerome Powell after the Trump administration opened a criminal investigation into him. The joint statement is expected to be issued…
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