Top 50 news sites in the | What we can learn from golden era of women's mags
Plus your news diary for the week ahead
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Whatever their political leanings, it would be understandable if US online editors voted for Trump next month.
The former US president is box office for the news industry and the finely balanced US election may be one factor driving growth at many sites in our latest global ranking of the top 50 English language online newsbrands.
Today we also take a look back at the golden age of magazines and speak to the presenters of a new podcast looking at women's glossies from the 1970s to 1990s.
Magazines from bygone days had an irreverence, sense of fun and lack of preaching which modern editors could take inspiration from, the hosts of Mag Hags told me.
And we have your news diary for the week ahead which includes campaign events for Kamala Harris in Georgia (which voted Democrat in 2020) and Donald Trump in (solidly Democrat) New York.
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A screenshot of the ABC News-hosted presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in September 2024. Picture: Youtube screenshot of Wall Street Journal debate stream
Top 50 news websites in the world: Half grow traffic year on year
But the only sites to grow their web traffic month-on-month were CBS News and India.com.
Less moralising and more fun: What we can learn from the golden era of women’s mags
“In one of our episodes, we looked at an issue of Tatler from 1980. All of the writing in that is just so good. And it’s hard to know where you would find writing like that now.”
News diary 21 – 27 October: King and Starmer in Samoa, Tommy Robinson protests outside Downing Street
A look ahead at the key events leading the news agenda this week, from the team at Foresight News.
News in brief
Shares in magazine publisher Future plc dropped more than 10% on Friday after the company announced the departure of chief executive Jon Steinberg following a year and a half in the role. (Press Gazette)
ITN has reportedly been advised to review its use of non-disclosure agreements by external lawyers who were brought in to look at allegations the broadcast news company covered up "gender pay discrimination, harassment and bullying" using legal contracts. Senior figures including Krishnan Guru-Murthy have criticised ITN management internally over the lawyers’ report, according to The Guardian. (Financial Times)
GB News has issued shares to the former boss of Parler and additional shares to Nigel Farage, the Financial Times reports, although the small percentage of the company Farage owns has remained largely the same while other shareholdings have been diluted. Press Gazette visualised the shareholdings at GB News in November. (Financial Times)
The Scotsman and Yorkshire Post publisher National World has signed an "exclusive, multi-year" deal with Taboola that will see the content recommendation service’s feed integrated across NW websites.
PA Media journalists have accepted their first pay deal with management since securing statutory recognition for their NUJ chapel in June. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Previously on Press Gazette
Nottingham Post vindicated over characterisation of police ‘non-disclosable’ briefing
Telegraph bidder Dovid Efune’s New York Sun is obscure even in home city
National editors pay tribute to SWNS at 50: UK’s biggest independent news agency
Phone-hacker Glenn Mulcaire loses bid to appeal against convictions
Why Microsoft Copilot Daily launch is ‘moment of significance’ for news industry
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