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Fighting for journalism and profitable news media
Spectator's £1m subs investment | New AI licensing scheme to help smaller publishers
And Mail's Katie Nicholl has described hacking claims as "nonsense" in privacy trial latest
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Good morning from the team at Press Gazette on Tuesday, 10 March.
📈 Sadly the ‘build it and they will come’ strategy doesn’t really work for subscription-funded news businesses.
As well as great content, you need to master data, marketing, payments, win-back strategies, ID management and old fashioned customer services.
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Publishers’ Licensing Services is setting up an online content store that will provide access to AI companies at a price. It claims to offer smaller publishers a way to strike deals with the LLMs.
This follows the launch of the SPUR coalition and also the Really Simple Syndication technology standard.
I’d advise publishers to explore signing up to all these initiatives. Doing nothing is not an option.
🕵️♀️And finally, former Mail on Sunday royal editor Katie Nicholl has taken the stand in the Prince Harry privacy trial.
Harry and other celebs have been convinced by lawyers and legal researchers that stories dating back to the 2000s could only have been sourced illegally.
The claimants’ case is based on guesswork and testimony from private investigators obtained with the help of cash and liquid inducements.
A lot of the stuff complained about was a breach of privacy and probably would not get published in today’s post Max Mosley versus News of the World climate.
But the alleged criminal conspiracy at the Mail titles is looking increasingly like a half-baked theory.
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🤏News In Brief
The Trump administration layoffs of more than 1,000 journalists and staffers at the US Agency for Global Media and Voice of America have been declared null and void by a judge. (NPR)
ESPN has hired six former Washington Post journalists. Its chairman said: "Adding these six outstanding journalists and the reputation of The Washington Post will enhance an ESPN team that is already the best in the business". (