Cover to Cover: How to Start a Magazine in 2026

We’ve come quite a long way since the very first American publication in 1741. Who knows if Ben Franklin and his chronicling competitors had any idea that their budding industry would blossom into something that has a global market size of more than $100 billion? 

 

Tech Platforms Overtake Publishers As Global News Source

Social and video platforms are now a bigger source of news consumption globally than TV or news websites/apps, according [to] the 2026 Reuters Digital News Report on publishing trends. The report also found that the use of AI chatbots for news has not changed in the UK and US over the past year, although usage has grown from 7% globally to 10%.

 

How ChatGPT Actually Picks Sources (I Read The Network Traffic, Not The Outputs)

I read the network traffic, the JSON the engine sends to my own browser, and lift out the engine’s own internal labels. … I’m not measuring how often something happens across a population. I’m documenting that the machine has a thing, and what the machine calls it. That difference decides what you can trust here, so I am going to be blunt about it.

 

It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests

A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words long is often enough to manipulate the AI agents that power tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI search, new research shows. The study suggests that it is trivially easy for brands to inject promotional content on sites like Reddit, Quora, and Wikipedia with the end goal of poisoning or manipulating the output of AI tools.