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

• Bloomberg | US Reporter Released By Russia in Multi-Country Prisoner Swap (1 min read)
• The Verge | Perplexity is cutting checks to publishers following plagiarism accusations (6 min read)
• The New York Times | How YouTube Took Over Our Television Screens (7 min read)
• The Financial Times | AI start-up Anthropic accused of ‘egregious’ data scraping (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | AI start-up Anthropic accused of ‘egregious’ data scraping (4 min read)
• MediaVoices | Lessons from the creator economy: allowing talent to operate like creators (5 min read)
• Poynter | Would you pay a premium for ad-free digital news? You may soon have the chance (5 min read)
• Techcrunch | Perplexity details plan to share ad revenue with outlets cited by its AI chatbot (4 min read)

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

• Digiday | After years of uncertainty, Google says it won’t be ‘deprecating third-party cookies’ in Chrome (5 min read)
• The New York Times | ‘Barbie’ Was Supposed to Change Hollywood for Women. Why Didn’t It? (6 min read)
• Financial Times | The problem of ‘model collapse’: how a lack of human data limits AI progress (3 min read)
• Taylor Lorenz | The Pop Craveification of Breaking News (5 min read)
• Poynter | Though most Americans get local political news, few are satisfied with its quality (3 min read)
• Intelligencer | AI Chatbots Have a Donald Trump Problem (8 min read)
• Inclusive Journalism Cymru | Recruiting for Inclusion – A guide for media organizations (16 min read)
• PWC | Perspectives from the Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2024–2028 (14 min read)

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

• WSJ | How Disney Is Trying to Be as Addictive as Netflix (5 min read)
• Proof | Apple, Nvidia, Anthropic Used Thousands of Swiped YouTube Videos to Train AI (11 min read)
• WSJ | Online Privacy and Other Areas Where Supreme Court Rulings Could Reshape Marketing Regulation (7 min read)
• The Verge | Chum King Express (20 min read)
• NiemanLab | Mashable, PC Mag, and Lifehacker win unprecedented AI protections in new union contract (4 min read)
• Deadline | FAST Platforms Had Bigger TV Share Than Many Premium Streamers Once Again In June — What Is Driving Their Success? (8 min read)
• Poynter | Meet the student journalists who report on Florida’s most influential and powerful elected officials (8 min read)
• Axios | Streaming usage hits new U.S. record (2 min read)

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

• NiemanLab | ChatGPT is hallucinating fake links to its news partners’ biggest investigations (11 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | The Hard Lessons of Lifetime Subscriptions (4 min read)
• The Verge | The aftermath of the Supreme Court’s NetChoice ruling (10 min read)
• Wired | Google Search Ranks AI Spam Above Original Reporting in News Results (7 min read)
• The New York Times | The First Amendment Is Out of Control (5 min read)
• Wired | Quora’s Chatbot Platform Poe Allows Users to Download Paywalled Articles on Demand (6 min read)
• The New York Times | Meet David Ellison, Paramount’s Future Boss and Hollywood’s Newest Mogul (4 min read)
• INMA | Report on journalism and GenAI features important use cases, biggest challenges (3 min read)

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• Wall Street Journal | Falsely Accused Wall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich in Court for Start of Secret Russian Trial (5 min read)
• The New York Times | The Future of Streaming (According to the Moguls Figuring It Out) (21 min read)
• Business Insider | The secret digital behaviors of Gen Z (10 min read)
• Wired | Perplexity Plagiarized Our Story About How Perplexity Is a Bullshit Machine (10 min read)
• Axios | Axios Finish Line: Most difficult media moment ever (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | Is the news industry ready for another pivot to video? (6 min read)
• The New York Times | Apple Is First Company Charged Under New E.U. Competition Law (5 min read)
• CNBC | YouTube dominates streaming, forcing media companies to decide whether it’s friend or foe (14 min read)
• The City | Information Sector Jobs Vanish as Publishing, Film and TV, Telecoms Take Hits (5 min read)

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

• Forbes | Buzzy AI Search Engine Perplexity Is Directly Ripping Off Content From News Outlets (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | The next phase of the streaming wars (4 min read)
• The New York Times | States Take Up A.I. Regulation Amid Federal Standstill (7 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Hubris, Revenge and a Breakup Brought Down Big Tech’s Proudest Ally (13 min read)
• The New York Times | Grab Them. Then Stump Them. (6 min read)
• Axios | Dark money news outlets outpacing local daily newspapers (4 min read)
• Variety | Streamers’ Spend to Eclipse Commercial Broadcasters in European TV Market Shake-Up, Ampere Forecast (2 min read)
• Pew Research | Black Americans and racial conspiracy theories about the news media (3 min read)
• Capitol Forum | Jason Kint on the US vs. Google Antitrust Trial (52 min listen)

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

• The New York Times | Google’s A.I. Search Leaves Publishers Scrambling (7 min read)
• Politico | Feds set stage for antitrust probes of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI (4 min read)
• The Washington Post | The media bosses fighting back against AI — and the ones cutting deals (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | Google Ad Tech Class Action Gets Go Ahead From London Judges (1 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | NBA Nears $76 Billion TV Deal, a Defining Moment for Media and Sports (8 min read)
• The Atlantic | A Devil’s Bargain With OpenAI (6 min read)
• Bloomberg | The US Antitrust Crusade: A Brief Overview of Cases Against Live Nation, Big Tech (4 min read)
• The New York Times | OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance (8 min read)

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

• NiemanLab | The Battle Over Using Journalism to Build AI Models is Just Starting (8 min read)
• The Washington Post | Meta walked away from news. Now the company’s using it for AI content. (9 min read)
• The Atlantic | OpenAI Just Gave Away the Entire Game (6 min read)
• Digiday | Digital Content Next divests TRUSTX to Symitri (2 min read)
• The Guardian | The big idea: the simple trick that can sabotage your critical thinking (7 min read)
• INMA | With major elections ahead, what should news media companies do about paywalls? (7 min read)
• WSJ | TV Networks Embrace Their Aging Audience With a New Mantra: Age Doesn’t Matter (7 min read)
• Reuters Institute | How news coverage, often uncritical, helps build up the AI hype (4 min read)
• The Washington Post | The education of Lina Khan, whose superpower is busting monopolies (26 min read)

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

• The New York Times | Can Google Give A.I. Answers Without Breaking the Web? (5 min read)
• The Washington Post | Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers (8 min read)
• The Financial Times | How our sense of economic reality is being distorted (4 min read)
• Variety | The Re-Reinvention of Television: Streamers Dust Off Some of the Old Broadcast Playbook for a New Era (11 min read)
• CNN | News publishers sound alarm on Google’s new AI-infused search, warn of ‘catastrophic’ impacts (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | This journalism professor made a NYC chatbot in minutes. It actually worked. (11 min read)
• Politico | Bipartisan group of senators unveil long-awaited guidance on AI bills (3 min read)
• The Washington Post | Ordered back to the office, top tech talent left instead, study finds (5 min read)
  

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

• Axios | News industry divides over AI (3 min read)
• The Guardian | Danger and opportunity for news industry as AI woos it for vital human-written copy (5 min read)
• Bloomberg | Zuckerberg’s Free AI Is a Clever Form of Bait (5 min read)
• American Press Institute | Americans have concerns about election coverage. Here are 3 ways to respond (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | Even if mistrust in news isn’t entirely reporters’ fault, it is their problem (5 min read)
• Bloomberg | OpenAI Is Readying a Search Product to Rival Google, Perplexity (2 min read)
• Techcrunch | OpenAI says it’s building a tool to let content creators ‘opt out’ of AI training (3 min read)
• Associated Press | News organizations have trust issues as they gear up to cover another election, a poll finds (4 min read) 
• Politico | The Collapse of the News Industry Is Taking Its Soul Down With It (20 min read)

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

• Axios | Major U.S. newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for copyright infringement (3 min read)
• The New York Times | F.C.C. Votes to Restore Net Neutrality Rules (3 min read)
• The Financial Times | How good is OpenAI’s Sora video model — and will it transform jobs? (6 min read)
• NiemanLab | “Objectivity” in journalism is a tricky concept. What could replace it? (7 min read)
• The Associated Press | News organizations have trust issues as they gear up to cover another election, a poll finds (4 min read)
• The New York Times | With YouTube Booming, Podcast Creators Get Camera-Ready (8 min read)
• Nielson | The Record: U.S. audio listening trends powered by Nielsen and Edison Research (2 min read)
• The New Yorker | Don’t Believe What They’re Telling You About Misinformation (20 min read)
• The New York Times | Strongest U.S. Challenge to Big Tech’s Power Nears Climax in Google Trial (7 min read)
• Wired | Net Neutrality Returns to a Very Different Internet (5 min read)
  

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

• The New York Times | Americans’ New TV Habit: Subscribe. Watch. Cancel. Repeat. (7 min read)
• Axios | Local journalism tax credits included in 2025 N.Y. state budget (3 min read)
• Reuters | In Paramount takeover effort, Silicon Valley and Hollywood worlds collide (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Russian Court Rejects WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich’s Appeal Against Detention (4 min read)
• The Verge | Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it (2 min read)
• Oigo | We can’t let anti-DEI laws kill public media (6 min read)
• Digiday | Google delays third-party cookie demise yet again (3 min read)
• Edward Zitron | The Man Who Killed Google Search (18 min read)