Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week

• Bloomberg | The Growing Battle Over How to Define a ‘Podcast’ (6 min read)
• Reuters | US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking ‘human’ creator (2 min read)
• Fast Company | The most innovative companies in media and news for 2025 (14 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers don’t really know how Google AI Overviews is impacting their referral traffic (5 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | AI Search Has A Citation Problem (15 min read)
• Wired | The Anti-DEI Agenda Is Reprogramming America (4 min read)
• The Atlantic | Trump’s Attempts to Muzzle the Press Look Familiar (8 min read)
• Fortune | How news organizations should overhaul their operations as the gen AI threatens their livelihoods (6 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• NiemanLab | News unions are grappling with generative AI. A new study shows what they’re most concerned about (6 min read)
• Semafor | Democrats introduce bill to defang Carr’s aggressive FCC (3 min read)
• Pressgazette | With launch of AI Mode Google threatens to bleed news media dry (6 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Top YouTube Creators to Hold Their Own Upfront Event in Bid for TV Ad Dollars (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | “More alarming by the day”: New York Times investigations editor on the legal threats faced by news publishers (13 min read)
• The New York Times | A Long-Shot Bet to Bypass the Middlemen of Social Media (6 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | DEI Is Disappearing in Hollywood. Was It Ever Really Here? (7 min read)
• American Press Institute | Develop your influencer strategy (32 min read)
  

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week

• The Atlantic | Why It Matters Who Asks the Questions (10 min read)
• The New York Times | Can the Media’s Right to Pursue the Powerful Survive Trump’s Second Term? (40 min read)
• Futurism | ChatGPT and Other Chatbots Are Hurting Publishers Even Worse Than We Thought (2 min read)
• Digiday | Journalists are using generative AI tools without company oversight, study finds (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | A new public policy agenda has a vision for “local news for the people” (8 min read)
• PressGazette | £13.6bn publisher adtech claim versus Google takes step forward (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | The L.A. Times adds AI-generated counterpoints to its opinion pieces and guess what, there are problems (7 min read)
• Politico | What Antitrust ‘Reformers’ Got Wrong (11 min read)
• Techdirt | Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) (10 min read)
  

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week

• Axios | White House strikes back at AP, takes over press pool coverage from reporter group (2 min read)
• The New York Times | White House Moves to Pick the Pool Reporters Who Cover Trump (5 min read)
• Pew Research | No consensus on who comes to mind when Americans are asked to name a news influencer (3 min read)
• PressGazette | ChatGPT referrals to top publishers up eight times in six months but still negligible (4 min read)
• The Guardian | UK ministers consider changing AI plans to protect creative industries (3 min read)
• The Washington Post | Google’s AI-generated answers might pose a monopoly problem (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Federal Funding Crackdown Imperils Global Newsrooms (6 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘A true free-speech emergency’: alarm over Trump’s ‘chilling’ attacks on media (5 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week

• The Guardian | EU accused of leaving ‘devastating’ copyright loophole in AI Act (6 min read)
• The Financial Times | Hollywood on defensive as Donald Trump’s anti-DEI crusade targets creatives (5 min read)
• Semafor | Democrats, influencers huddle for a new new media strategy (5 min read)
• Wired | The 50-Year-Old Law That Could Stop DOGE in Its Tracks—Maybe (9 min read)
• NiemanLab | Blurred lines: When it comes to news habits, age may be more important than nationality (3 min read)
• Money Inc. | The Digital Entertainment Revolution: How Streaming, Gaming and Social Media Are Redefining Leisure (7 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | Designing the future of entertainment (20 min read)
• Deadline | Donald Trump And The FCC Chairman Are Waging War On The News Media As Much Of The Industry Frets Over Whether To Fight Back – Analysis (11 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | America Needs a Working-Class Media (10 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week

• The New York Times | Who’s Watching What on TV? Who’s to Say? (6 min read)
• PressGazette | Most generative AI responses based on news content contain inaccuracies (5 min read)
• Axios | Trump’s defamation and media litigation spikes (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | Less is more, and discounts work: A new study looks at the minutiae of paywall strategy (5 min read)
• Wired | Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US (3 min read)
• The New York Times | 5 Notes From the Big A.I. Summit in Paris (7 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Super Bowl Viewership Hits New Record With Big Boost From Free Streaming (7 min read)
• The Financial Times | Strongmen celebrate as Trump aid freeze hits media (7 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week

• Axios | PBS poll finds broad Trump voter support amid GOP defunding push (2 min read)
• Digiday | How publishers are choosing which LLMs to use (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | OpenAI’s Sora Filmmaking Tool Meets Resistance in Hollywood (4 min read)
• The New York Times | How a Sale of TikTok Would Work and Who Might Buy It (6 min read)
• The Financial Times | EU pushes ahead with enforcing AI Act despite Donald Trump warnings (4 min read)
• PressGazette | FT policy chief warns MPs watered-down copyright regime for AI is ‘huge mistake’ (4 min read)
• Poynter | I’m a Gen Z journalist. My generation doesn’t know what that means. (9 min read)
• AdExchanger | The Latest On Chrome’s Cookie Choice Prompt (It’s Gonna Be ‘Global’) (4 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week

• Wired | ‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the Company (10 min read)
• PressGazette | Google owes UK news industry £2.2bn from 2023 alone, claims new research (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Welcome, Podcasters! White House Wants New Media at the Press Briefing (3 min read)
• Digiday | Google’s latest Chrome update leaves third-party cookie phase-out as unclear as ever (4 min read)
• Variety | Copyright Office Offers Assurances on AI Filmmaking Tools (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | EU industry urges Brussels to continue probes into Big Tech (4 min read)
• Semafor | Media traffic shows signs of another Trump bump (2 min read)
• NBC News | Why DeepSeek is different, in three charts (4 min read)
  

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week

• Digiday | AI Briefing: Copyright battles bring Meta and OpenAI datasets under the microscope (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Audience editors offer advice for “dispiriting” times in social and search (7 min read)
• Semafor | Inside the tug-of-war between AI and news publishers (3 min read)
• Deadline | New FCC Chair Revives Complaints About ABC, CBS And NBC Content That His Predecessor Rejected As “At Odds With The First Amendment” (5 min read)
• Pressgazette | Six things publishers should do now to protect themselves from AI scrapers (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | Netflix is winning streaming’s battle royale (2 min read)
• Digiday+ Research | Publishers’ feelings about the media industry are shaky, but they’re still optimistic for 2025 (3 min read)
• CNN | CNN defamation case foreshadows Trump media crackdown, experts say (3 min read)
• Economics Observatory | Why is the UK film and television sector struggling? (16 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read during the first few weeks of the new year:

• Bloomberg | How Journalism Will Adapt in the Age of AI (18 min read)
• Pressgazette | CMA to investigate Google search dominance and impact on news publishers (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Advertisers Keep Avoiding News Sites, and Publishers Have Had Enough of It (7 min read)
• Wired | That Sports News Story You Clicked on Could Be AI Slop (6 min read)
• The Financial Times | Will a weakened Hollywood embrace Trump 2.0? (6 min read)
• AdExchanger | Higher, Further, FAST-er: CTV Will Keep On Growing In 2025 (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Sports Streaming Service From Media Giants Ends Before It Starts (3 min read)
• TechCrunch | Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta’s Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims (4 min read)
• Digiday | OpenAI, The New York Times debate copyright infringement of AI tech companies in first trial arguments (7 min read)
• The Financial Times | Disney’s Fubo settlement shows digital content is a contact sport (2 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week

• The New York Times | Media Moguls Set the Stage for Deal Mania (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | UK looks at forcing greater transparency on AI training models (4 min read)
• The New Yorker | The Year Creators Took Over (2 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | From Fox News to NBC, Legacy Media Wants in on TikTok (6 min read)
• The New York Times | Here’s a Hollywood Twist: Streaming Success Runs Through Theaters (8 min read)
• Worklife| DEI in 2024: milestones, setbacks and shifting priorities (5 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Media Deals Outlook: “Pent-Up Demand” to Fuel Big Year in 2025 (3 min read)
• The Verge | How to disappear completely (11 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week:

• The Financial Times | Advertising revenues set to hit $1tn in market dominated by technology companies (3 min read)
• Deadline | Journalist Protection Bill Blocked In Senate After Tom Cotton Objects To Speedy Passage (3 min read)
• Semafor| Weakened US public broadcasters will fight for their lives in 2025 (10 min read)
• The Verge | TikTok failed to save itself with the First Amendment (10 min read)
• The Financial Times | Billionaires plan overhaul of US news groups as media confronts trust issue (3 min read)
• Deadline | The Rise And Fall Of YA TV: How Creators & Development Execs Are Appealing To Gen Z In The Age Of TikTok (12 min read)
• Reuters | Brussels seeks more information on secret Google-Meta ads deal targeting teens, FT reports (1 min read)
• Shorenstein Center | The Future of Trustworthy Information: Learning from Online Content Creators (21 min read)