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)
  

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

• The New York Times | Come One, Come All! Buy Your TV Subscriptions Here! (6 min read)
• Digiday | Google AI Overviews linked to 25% drop in publisher referral traffic, new data shows (7 min read)
• The Guardian | Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy (4 min read)
• The Wrap | Streaming Reaches Nearly Half of Total TV Viewing in July (2 min read)
• CJR | What Will the Next Era of Public Media Look Like? (8 min read)
• The New York Times | How Hulk Hogan Leg-Dropped the Digital Media Industry (7 min read)
• Wired | AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It’s Already Arrived (18 min read)
• Pew | How Americans View Journalists in the Digital Age (7 min read)

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

• Bloomberg | Podcasting’s ‘Serial’ Era Ends as Video Takes Over (6 min read)
• Ars Technica | AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified (5 min read)
• Digiday | The publishers’ guide to being gaslit by tech platforms (the AI edition) (5 min read)
• The Verge | Google TV’s uncertain future (5 min read)
• Digiday | Despite the hype, publishers aren’t prioritizing GEO (4 min read)
• The New Yorker | What Happens to Public Media Now? (11 min read)
• The Atlantic | The Awkward Adolescence of a Media Revolution (7 min read)
• Wired | Inside the US Government’s Unpublished Report on AI Safety (5 min read)
  

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

• NiemanLab | The good, the bad, and the completely made-up: Newsrooms on wrestling accurate answers out of AI (11 min read)
• The Verge | Epic just won its Google lawsuit again, and Android may never be the same (5 min read)
• PressGazette | Why publishers should worry about growing reliance on Google Discover (5 min read)
• New York Magazine | SEO Is Dead. Say Hello to GEO. (10 min read)
• NiemanLab | President Donald Trump is again attacking the American press — this time not with fiery rally speeches or by calling the media “the enemy of the people,” but through the courts. (6 min read)
• Observer | How Sony Pictures ‘Won’ the Streaming Wars By Sitting Them Out (6 min read)
• Variety | Spike Lee, Adam McKay and 2,300 More WGA Members Sign Letter Blasting Trump’s ‘Authoritarian Assault’ on Free Speech (6 min read)
• Axios | Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down (3 min read)

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

• Reuters | Trump, FCC want to reshape the media landscape starting with CBS (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | Generative AI models love to cite Reuters and Axios, study finds (3 min read)
• The Guardian | AI summaries cause ‘devastating’ drop in audiences, online news media told (3 min read)
• Bloomberg | How Podcast-Obsessed Tech Investors Made a New Media Industry (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Whatever Happened to the TikTok Ban? (5 min read)
• NBC News | AI models may be accidentally (and secretly) learning each other’s bad behaviors (4 min read)
• Variety | U.S. Streaming Video Market to Surge 33% by 2029 to Over $112 Billion, PwC Forecasts (5 min read)
• RSF | Six months of Trump’s war on the press: importing and exporting authoritarian tendencies (6 min read)
  

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

• Wired | Trump Says He’s ‘Getting Rid of Woke’ and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech (2 min read)
• Politico | Trump will sue the WSJ, directs Bondi to unseal Epstein material (5 min read)
• PressGazette | Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users (4 min read)
• Pew Research | Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | Google Seeks Licensing Talks With News Groups, Following AI Rivals (4 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | AI Search Is Growing More Quickly Than Expected (5 min read)
• The Guardian | UK competition watchdog to act over Apple and Google’s mobile platforms (5 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | How YouTube Won the Battle for TV Viewers (9 min read)
• The Financial Times | The ‘hallucinations’ that haunt AI: why chatbots struggle to tell the truth (6 min read)