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

• BBC | Google may be forced to link to rival search platforms in the UK (3 min read)
• The Guardian | Rise in ‘alert fatigue’ risks phone users disabling news notifications, study finds (3 min read)
• Pew Research | Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | AI-personalized news takes new forms (but do readers want them?) (6 min read)
• The New York Times | As U.S. Dismantles Voice of America, Rival Powers Hope to Fill the Void (7 min read)
• Wired | Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims (5 min read)
• The Wrap | The Mainstream News Battle Hits YouTube: How Fox News, CNN, MSNBC Stack Up (5 min read)
• CNBC | Creators say they didn’t know Google uses YouTube to train AI (6 min read)

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

• NPR | Trump asks Congress to wipe out funding for public broadcasting (5 min read)
• Digiday | Amazon and The New York Times’ AI deal signals a new wave of publisher partnerships (5 min read)
• Chicago Sun Times | Lessons (and an apology) from the Sun-Times CEO on that AI-generated book list (13 min read)
• Poynter | We’re tracking the rising threats to press freedom (2 miin read)
• Semafor | If AI can personalize ads, why not news? (3 min read)
• Yahoo! Finance | The media sector faces a ‘great shedding’ of assets before M&A revival: Starz CEO (3 min read)
• The New Yorker | Trump’s Playbook to Cripple Public Media and the Press (26 min read)
• Pew Research Center | Bluesky has caught on with many news influencers, but X remains popular (5 min read)
  

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

• Bloomberg | Google Decided Against Offering Publishers Options in AI Search (6 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | What Is Big Tech Trying to Hide? (6 min read)
• The Verge | AI Mode is obviously the future of Google Search (7 min read)
• Digiday | One year in: SEO lessons from publishers after Google’s AI Overviews (7 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Streamers Are Finally Making Money. For Consumers, It’s Getting Messier. (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Google Unveils A.I. Chatbot, Signaling a New Era for Search (8 min read)
• The Drum | News Horizons: how global media is quietly reinventing itself (7 min read)
• CJR | Report: How Platforms and Publishers are Navigating AI (2.5h read)

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

• The Verge | Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired (6 min read)
• Irish Council for Civil Liberties | EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Hollywood Groups Call for Tax Changes After Trump’s Tariff Threat (1 min read)
• Press Gazette | How Google forced publishers to accept AI scraping as price of appearing in search (5 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Creators Are Building Their Own Supersized Studio System As Hollywood Cuts Back (8 min read)
• The Associated Press | White House correspondents protest lack of wire reporters on Air Force One (1 min read)
• The New York Times | A.G. Sulzberger: A Free People Need a Free Press (27 min read)
• CJR | How We’re Using AI [industry research] (29 min read)
  

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

• The Wall Street Journal | U.S. Urges Breakup of Google Ad Businesses (2 min read)
• Bloomberg | Trump Plans to Tax Movies. Here’s How It Will Impact Hollywood (3 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | “Everyone Loses”: Trump’s Movie Tariffs Plan Catches Hollywood Off Guard (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Newsom Asks Trump to Work With Him on $7.5 Billion Tax Credit for Hollywood (7 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Bernie Sanders Urges Shari Redstone Not to Settle ’60 Minutes’ Lawsuit (3 min read)
• The Washington Post | Public media ready to fight ‘unlawful’ Trump order defunding PBS, NPR (8 min read)
• Bloomberg | What US and EU Crackdowns on Big Tech Mean for Apple, Google, X (8 min read)
• Pew Research Center | Americans largely foresee AI having negative effects on news, journalists (3 min read)
• Bloomberg | Podcast Industry Is Twice as Large as Previously Estimated (1 min read)

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

• Axios | Trump targets the media in his first 100 days (3 min read)
• Bloomberg | FCC’s Anna Gomez Takes on Trump in Defense of Media (11 min read)
• The Financial Times | The US ruled against Google’s monopoly — Europe should do the same (4 min read)
• Digiday | The industry’s response to Google’s third-party cookie U-turn: ‘endless millions have been wasted’ (5 min read)
• Vanity Fair | How Ezra Klein’s YouTube Makeover Points to Podcasting’s TV Future (8 min read)
• CNN | US judge rules Apple violated order to reform App Store (2 min read)
• NPR | Justice Department revokes Biden-era protections for reporters in leak investigations (2 min read)
• Digiday | As AI lawsuits mount, publishers still struggle to block the bots (5 min read)
• The New York Time | Judge Orders Trump Officials to Disburse Funding for Radio Free Europe (5 min read)
• The Guardian | Trump v 60 Minutes is a stunning battle for the soul of US media (6 min read)
• Los Angeles Times | How Trump’s FCC chairman is stoking the culture war (9 min read)
  

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

• Reuters | Wire services including Reuters and Bloomberg News will no longer hold a permanent slot in the small pool of reporters who cover President Donald Trump (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Tariff Confusion Leaves Advertisers ‘Paralyzed’ and ‘Somber’ (6 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Omnicom Gives More Cautious 2025 Outlook as Tariffs Create Uncertainty About Ad Spending (2 min read)
• The Financial Times | Profit from podcasts? A reviving industry is all ears Premium content (2 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | Streaming Profit Report: Netflix Leads, Disney Rises, Warner Grows. Is Consolidation Next? (6 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Failed Negotiations to End Antitrust Case (6 min read)
• The New York Times | Mark Zuckerberg Takes Stand to Defend Meta Against Antitrust Suit (7 min read)
• Fast Company | The next big AI shift in media? Turning news into a two-way conversation (5 min read)
• Tech Policy Press | Washington’s Double Standard on Free Speech (5 min read)
  

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

• The Financial Times | Meta antitrust case poses first big test of Trump’s new FTC (5 min read)
• Bloomberg | Google AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling ‘Betrayed’ (11 min read)
• Wired | Even Streaming Services Might Be Hurt by Trump’s Tariffs (4 min read)
• The Guardian | Clickbait titles and cliffhangers: the mini TV serials capturing phone audiences (6 min read)
• Press Gazette | Virtual reality: The widely-quoted media experts who are not what they seem (9 min read)
• The Federalist | Despite PR Pivot, Meta Is Still A Monopoly And A Threat To A Free Society (5 min read)The New Yorker | Will A.I. Save the News? (12 min read)
• Poynter | Audiences are still skeptical about generative AI in the news (6 min read)
  

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

• The Guardian | ‘I can’t cope with it any more’: newsrooms scramble to retain audiences amid the big switch-off (5 min read)
• Adexchanger | Google Antagonists Await Justice (3 min read)
• The Financial Times | US regulator to investigate Disney over diversity initiatives (2 min read)
• Bloomberg | Asia’s Richest Man Takes Aim at Netflix, YouTube in India (9 min read)
• Big Technology | As AI Takes His Readers, A Leading History Publisher Wonders What’s Next (4 min read)
• Axios | Trump administration efforts to gut government-funded media face pushback in court (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Cutting Off NPR and PBS (4 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘Revenge is his number one motivation’: how Trump is waging war on the media (7 min read)
  

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

• Associated Press | Judge allows newspaper copyright lawsuit against OpenAI to proceed (1 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘We need to set the terms or we’re all screwed’: how newsrooms are tackling AI’s uncertainties and opportunities (6 min read)
• Press Gazette | Google news revenue research ‘self serving’, ‘pure propaganda’ say industry experts (8 min read)
• The Verge | Lawmakers are trying to repeal Section 230 again (3 min read)
• Axios | Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to landmark press freedom case (2 min read)
• Deloitte | 2025 Digital Media Trends: Social platforms are becoming a dominant force in media and entertainment (17 min read)
• The Wall Street journal | Ad Forecaster Reduces Growth Prediction for 2025, Citing Poor Economic Visibility, Low Consumer Confidence (2 min read)
• NPR | Judge freezes Trump plan to dismantle Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (5 min read)
• Variety | How Streaming Services Can Stay Ahead of the AI and Social Media Disruption Wave (5 min read)