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

• The New York Times | What the Look of Your Favorite Podcast Is Trying to Tell You (16 min read)
• Bloomberg | Trump Urges Congress to Block State-Level AI Regulation (2 min read)
• CJR | The Plan to Bring Down a Giant (8 min read)
• NiemanLab | A bipartisan group of former FCC commissioners wants to take away Brendan Carr’s biggest weapon against journalism (7 min read)
• The New York Times | Who Will Win Hollywood’s Big Prize? (6 min read)
• The Local | Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era (19 min read)
• Barrett Media | The Disney vs YouTube TV Spat Had a Hidden Message to the Cable News Industry (3 min read)
• CJR | How to Make TikTok Journalism Not Cringey? The EU Might Have an Answer. (5 min read)

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

• NiemanLab | “Biased,” “boring,” “chaotic,” and “bad”: A majority of teens hold negative views of news media, report finds (5 min read)
• The New York Times | A.I. Sweeps Through Newsrooms, but Is It a Journalist or a Tool? (7 min read)
• The Athletic | Illegal streaming: Research reveals rise in piracy and desire for scrapping of 3pm blackout (5 min read)
• Engaget | Meta is killing off the external Facebook Like button (1 min read)
• Wired | Welcome to Big Tech’s ‘Age of Extraction’ (8 min read)
• The Financial Times | EU readies fresh investigation into Google over news publisher rankings (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | BBC resignations are a symbol of mounting pressure on public broadcasters in the Trump era (5 min read)
• .coda | The Werewolf game: an interview with Google’s former news chief Richard Gingras (41 min read)
  

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

• CJR | How AI Browsers Sneak Past Blockers and Paywalls (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | Box-Office Duds Are Becoming Streaming Hits (7 min read)
• NiemanLab | Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models (11 min read)
• The New York Times | White House Limits Reporters’ Access to Press Secretary’s Office (4 min read)
• The Atlantic | The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers (10 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Journalists are souring on social media platforms, an analysis of 11 years of Nieman Lab predictions suggests (6 min read)
• Follow the Money | How Google fooled Brussels: the tech giant’s playbook exposed (11 min read)
• The Financial Times | It’s time to build the intention economy online (4 min read)

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

• Bloomberg | Warner Bros. Discovery Sale Pits Billionaires Against Each Other (10 min read)
• PBS News | Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to allow it to fire head of U.S. Copyright Office (2 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Why Podcast Advertisers Are Holding Back Close to $1 Billion (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | News creators get more attention in countries where traditional media struggles (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Under Trump, Voice of America Is Down but Not Out (12 min read)
• Harper’s | Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media? (33 min read)
• The New York Times | Radio Free Asia Will Halt News Operations Amid Shutdown (4 min read)
• Pew Research Center | Many Americans say they often come across inaccurate news – and have a hard time knowing what’s true (2 min read)

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

• Digiday | AI royalties for small and midsize publishers: collective licensing’s next big play (6 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | The (Academic) Case Against the Netflix Episode-Release Strategy (3 min read)
• The New York Times | OpenAI Unveils Web Browser Built for Artificial Intelligence (2 min read)
• Reuters | AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows (2 min read)
• NPR | Hollywood pushes OpenAI for consent (4 min read)
• Axios | Independent newspapers disappear as private investment firms take over (3 min read)
• Shelly Palmer | AdCP (Ad Context Protocol): A Real Attempt To Make Agents Buy Media (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | In Medill’s latest State of Local News report, a “festering, 20-year-old problem” looms larger than ever (9 min read)

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

• The New York Times | How the Pentagon Is Blocking Out News Organizations (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Inside Hegseth’s Effort to Limit Press Access at the Pentagon (5 min read)
• Deadline | Media Outlets, Ranging From The Atlantic To Newsmax, Refuse To Sign New Pentagon Press Policy — Update (4 min read)
• AP | Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | How Google Is Walking the AI Tightrope (5 min read)
• The Verge | OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama (7 min read)
• Derek Thompson | Everything Is Television (12 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | YouTube Just Ate TV. It’s Only Getting Started (29 min read)
  

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

• The New York Times | U.S. v. Google: What Each Side Argued for Fixing Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly (4 min read)
• Pew Research Center | Relatively few Americans are getting news from AI chatbots like ChatGPT (2 min read)
• Digiday | From walls to frameworks: Publishers and tech giants push weekly talks on AI content use (7 min read)
• The Financial Times | Have we passed peak social media? (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Corporate Anxiety Is Fueling a Multimillion-Dollar Industry of Gen Z Translators (5 min read)
• CJR | Reddit Is Winning the AI Game (5 min read)
• CNN | Pentagon charges ahead with press restrictions ‘designed to stifle a free press,’ media orgs say (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different (5 min read)
  

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

• NBC News | FCC chair to testify before Senate panel after bipartisan blowback over Jimmy Kimmel suspension (1 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out (4 min read)
  
• Search Engine Journal | The Impact Of AI Overviews & How Publishers Need To Adapt (14 min read)
  
• Deadline | In YouTube TV Carriage Battles, Media Companies Say Tech Giant Is After Their Streaming Lunch Money (6 min read)
  
• PressGazette | Publishers with AI licensing deals have seven times the clickthrough rate (4 min read)
  
• Poynter | AI is everywhere. Editors should be, too. (4 min read)
• Pew Research | Americans have mixed feelings about AI summaries in search results (3 min read)
• The New York Times | California Governor Signs Sweeping A.I. Law (3 min read)
  

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

• Axios | FCC commissioner criticizes administration for “weaponizing” agency’s authority (1 min read)
• The New York Times | U.S. Asks Judge to Break Up Google’s Advertising Technology Monopoly (4 min read)
• Digiday | Remedies vs reality: Publishers weigh what Google’s ad tech break up could really deliver (8 min read)
• Variety | Trump Rages at Jimmy Kimmel and ABC as Late-Night Show Returns: ‘A True Bunch of Losers!’ (4 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | America’s Most Trusted News Stars in the Trump Era Are … (8 min read)
• Bloomberg | Breakup of Google Ad Tech Monopoly on the Table in Remedy Trial (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Jimmy Kimmel may be back, but TV networks are more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before (6 min read)
• The New Republic | Trump’s Ouster of Jimmy Kimmel Is Much Worse Than You Think It Is (5 min read)
• The New Yorker | The A.I. Bubble Is Coming for Your Browser (7 min read)

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

• Bloomberg | Amazon, Google Probed by FTC Over Search Advertising Practices (4 minute read)
• CNN | Trump’s lawsuit against The New York Times is meritless, First Amendment experts say (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | What We Do and Don’t Know About US TikTok Deal With China (4 min read)
• Press Gazette | AI bots appear to be replacing human traffic on publisher websites (5 min read)
• Axios | Free speech fight shifts (3 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | TV Industry Bets AI Can Peel Ad Dollars Away From Big Tech (5 min read)
• Axios | Publishers shift AI ire to Google (3 min read)
• The New York Times | After Trump’s Cuts, ‘Crippled’ NPR and PBS Stations Must Transform (10 min read)
  

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

• The New York Times | Why Google Got Off Easy (4 min read)
• NBC News | AI company Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with authors (2 min read)
• Bloomberg Law | Anthropic Judge Blasts $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (4 min read)
• The Verge | The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Brendan Carr Channeling Trump’s Showman Instincts to Overhaul FCC (6 min read)
• Forbes | A Huge Google Change Coming ‘Soon’ Should Terrify News Publishers (4 min read)
• The Guardian | Global press freedom suffers sharpest fall in 50 years, report finds (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Shows Created by Women Rise Sharply, but Only on Streaming TV (2 min read)
• PressGazette | AI bots bombard publisher websites with ‘no meaningful value exchange’(6 min read)
• NiemanLab | From reckoning to retreat: Journalism’s DEI efforts are in decline (18 min read)

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

• Digiday | Google AI Overviews linked to 25% drop in publisher referral traffic, new data shows (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | AI Is Replacing Online Moderators, But It’s Bad at the Job (11 min read)
• The Financial Times | Publishers race to counter ‘Google Zero’ threat as AI changes search engines (7 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | New ESPN, Fox Streaming Services Join a Baffling Landscape for Fans (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | Trump Threatens NBC, ABC Licenses Over News Coverage (2 min read)
• Rolling Stone | Who Killed the Narrative Podcast? (22 min read)