Columbia Journalism Review Monday January 19, 2026
PPD recently featured predictions about where journalism and the media are headed in 2026, courtesy of experts queried by the Nieman Lab. Now the Columbia Journalism Review has published a special issue called “Visions of 2050” featuring media prognostications from prominent media figures. Emma Tucker, the editor in chief of the Wall Street Journal, says “big brands” such as the Journal and The New York Times will still be around in 2050. Not so much for CNN, ABC, CBS, and other news networks, says Ben Smith, the editor in chief of Semafor. Read the full Story >>
SLEEK Monday January 19, 2026
Swiss artist and photographer Michel Comte’s career spans the golden decades of fashion, film, and contemporary culture—his notable portrait subject include everyone from Bill and Hillary Clinton to Iggy Pop. But today, notes Sleek, Comte’s relationship to his archive is ambivalent: He acknowledges its historical weight but also the necessity of distance. “I said to myself that I wanted to reverse the cycle and return to where I started.…”I had a very strong resentment toward the label ‘Michel Comte, star photographer,” he says. Read the full Story >>
PetaPixel Monday January 19, 2026
Launched for pre-order at CES 2026 in Las Vegas, the $599 XbotGo Falcon could change the way parents capture kids’ sports, declares PetaPixel. The compact and relatively lightweight (28.6 ounces) device It offers 360° rotation and 160° of tilt, driven by motorized controls rather than manual adjustments. The camera’s 120° field of view provides a wide baseline image that the system crops and zooms digitally as needed, letting users document sporting events like a TV broadcaster, though not with the many camera angles that TV uses. Read the full Story >>
The Hollywood Reporter Monday January 19, 2026
As Hollywood grapples with the adoption of AI, a group of 18 industry insiders have banded together to form the Creators Coalition on AI, a first-of-its-kind effort backed by the signatures of more than 500 filmmakers, show runners, writers, and other film industry professionals. The group says its mission is to serve as “a central coordinating hub to upgrade our industry’s systems and institutions,” notes The Hollywood Reporter. The CCAI’s founding members include filmmaker Daniel Kwan, producer Jonathan Wang, and actors Natasha Lyonne and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Read the full Story >>
