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)

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

• CJR | How ChatGPT Search (Mis)represents Publisher Content (11 min read)
• The New York Times | Canada Accuses Google of Creating an Ad Tech Monopoly (3 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Australia Bans Social Media for Under-16s With World-First Law (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | News outlets push vertical video to the homepage (8 min read)
• The New York Times | What’s Next for Google’s Search Monopoly (5 min read)
• Poynter | As journalists think of leaving X for Bluesky and Threads, media experts see pros and cons (9 min read)
• Bloomberg | FTC, Meta Face April 14 Trial Over Suit to Break Up Company (1 min read)

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

• Bloomberg | Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser (6 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Netflix Sued Over Alleged Backroom Deal With Meta to Stand Down on Streaming (3 min read)
• Digiday | Google is getting ready to unveil how Chrome’s cookie opt-in model will work, sources say (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Why Everyone Is Now Watching Podcasts on YouTube (6 min read)
• The New York Times | How Google Spent 15 Years Creating a Culture of Concealment (13 min read)
• NBC News | 1 in 5 U.S. adults get their news from social media influencers, according to Pew report (3 min read)
• Politico | Trump taps Brendan Carr to chair FCC (3 min read)

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

• The Verge | Google is testing the ‘impact’ of removing EU news from search results (2 min read)
• The New York Times | The Streaming Wars Didn’t Kill the Little Guys. In Fact, They’re Thriving. (5 min read)
• The Current | Analysts: New documents highlight the strength of the DOJ case against Google (3 min read)
• The Financial Times | The starting gun has sounded on US media consolidation (2 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | A New Streaming Customer Emerges: The Subscription Pauser (4 min read)
• Techcrunch | It’s the Senate’s last chance to pass the PRESS Act (2 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Google Executive Picked to Supercharge News Efforts Has Resigned (2 min read)
• The Atlantic | Bad News (11 min read)

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

• CNN | Trump’s return to power raises serious questions about the media’s credibility (5 min read)
• Press Gazette | News organisations are forced to accept Google AI crawlers, says FT policy chief (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Kay Koplovitz Wants to See More Entrepreneurs Who Look Like Her (9 min read)
• Axios | Trump’s media playbook (3 min read)
• Press Gazette | How publishers use AI to boost productivity: From audio editions to exploiting archives (4 min read)
• Variety | Donald Trump Presidency Could Make 2025 a ‘Breakout Year for M&A’ With Deregulation on the Table (3 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | U.K. Government Proposes Changes to Media Merger Laws “for the Digital Age” (2 min read)
• Axios | Ziff Davis study says AI firms rely on publisher data to train models (3 min read)