Your @ForesightNewsUK diary for the week ahead: MPs debate Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill, Chinese countermeasures on US tariffs come into effect, Andrew Bailey speech on financial markets, BAFTAs

65% of Canadians want the govt to commit some of its ad budget to the country's news media. Publishers want 25% of the budget to go on trusted news sources - last year it was 2% to all print titles. The govt has ended its ban on advertising with Meta.

Cabinet minister Chris Bryant has predicted that "in two or three years’ time, every single person will have an AI assistant of some kind on their laptop or on their phone" and said it's Government's job to find a "possibility for a win-win" on copyright

The co-founder of digital media outlet The London Economic has stepped down after 12 years editing the title, citing “punishing algorithms and scarce resources”. The London Economic is part of Joe Media, which was bought out of administration last year:

Reach reporters have been warned unauthorised linking to commercial sites could lead to dismissal.

The Bulwark had its first profitable year in 2024, it has told New York Magazine, with 76,000 paid Substack subscribers and monthly Youtube revenue of between $150,000 and $300,000. The company claimed it is now adding thousands of paid subs each week.

Staff at US government agencies told to cancel subscriptions to the likes of Politico, Axios and Reuters

Hundreds gathered at St Bride's for a memorial to The Independent's Kim Sengupta. Geordie Greig said: "Kim wriggled across frontiers, skidded toward danger, dodged bullets, avoided capture, interrogation and incarceration. Also - he avoided editors..."

Read the full interview with Le Monde CEO Louis Dreyfus here:

£6.4m sale costs pushed Spectator into loss for 2023

Hearst has expanded its ad targeting tool AURA into the UK and Europe. It uses first-party data to target advertising and is said to offer better click-through rates than cookie-based advertising tools

We need to talk about open rates: @FT newsletters supremo @sarahjebner shares some of the strategies which have helped grow email subscribers four-fold to 1.6m in last four years

Le Monde CEO: Digital subscriber revenue will pay for entire newsroom within two years

The News Media Association is among those raising concerns over the appointment of the former boss of Amazon UK as interim chair of the Competition and Markets Authority

Gannett sold consumer reviews site Reviewed after its closure last year to commerce and content platform StackCommerce, which has since rehired five former members of staff. The site had been hit hard by Google algorithm changes

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has said the US Government is cancelling more than $8m worth in Politico subscriptions. Politico's bosses reportedly reassured staff that the "overwhelming majority" of subs are from the private sector

Hearst Magazines is expanding its first-party, AI-powered ad targeting tool Aura from the US to its brands and clients around the world starting in the UK, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.

The UK Government has been accused of failing to “reflect the urgency and severity of the situation” in a response published today to the House of Lords Future of News inquiry as it shelved taking action of SLAPPs

Times Radio overtook both GB News Radio and fellow News UK station Talk (formerly Talkradio) for weekly reach in the final quarter of 2024, according to RAJAR listening figures. Full found-up