NBC asked up to $10m for 30 seconds of the US Super Bowl
NBC sold out every 2026 Super Bowl ad slot months early. Semafor and MediaPost put 30 seconds at $7m to $10m, and one drugmaker bought 90.
category archive
Media.
The stories we see, the formats we use and the choices behind the headlines.
Deutsche Welle: Germany's broadcaster for audiences abroad
Deutsche Welle broadcasts Germany to the world, not to Germans. That job has led it to hire a British transmitter firm and cost it its Moscow bureau.
Every household in Germany pays for ARD and ZDF, TV or not
Germany's Rundfunkbeitrag charges each household a flat monthly fee, whatever devices it owns, and that money pays for most of ARD and ZDF.
Britain and the US both moved against Iran's Press TV
Ofcom pulled Press TV's UK licence in 2012 because its editors sat in Tehran. The US later seized its web domains, alleging they spread disinformation.
Philippine lawmakers refused ABS-CBN's franchise, 70 votes to 11
ABS-CBN went off air in May 2020 after its renewal stalled in a Congress run by Duterte's allies. In July, lawmakers refused a new franchise, 70 to 11.
TV Licensing knocks on 2m UK doors, and fewer answer
UK licence fee dodgers face a doorstep visit and, at worst, prosecution. Visits rose by half in 2024 while prosecutions fell, MPs found.
A style guide settles a newsroom's arguments before they start
A newsroom's style guide fixes spelling, capitals and terms in advance, so writers stop arguing mid-deadline and readers see one voice.
Newsrooms take bystander video apart to test rival accounts
Newsrooms sync bystander clips frame by frame. In Minneapolis that showed the car turned away from the ICE agent. On Gaza, teams reached clashing verdicts.
UK press regulator IPSO decides where a correction must run
IPSO, the UK press regulator, sets how prominent a newspaper's correction must be, in print and online. Rulings on The Sun and the Press & Journal show how.
Alden Global Capital bought US newspapers, then stripped them
Alden Global Capital cut staff and sold real estate at the US papers it bought. A federal inquiry found it probably moved pension money into its own funds.
News sites test two headlines and keep the one you click
News sites show different headlines to small slices of readers and keep the winner. One word, epic, doubled clicks for The Dodo. Here is how it works.