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• The Guardian | ‘What’s going on?’: US judge calls aspects of new Pentagon press policy ‘weird’ (7 min read)
• The Wrap | The New Hybrid Journalist: Independent Operators, Big Media Reach (12 min read)
• The Financial Times | What to do when the ‘public good’ of information goes bad (6 min read)
• Axios | Video market plateaus amid fragmented streaming landscape (x min read)
• The New York Times | Trump’s Executive Order on NPR and PBS Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules (3 min read)
• Wired | I Asked ChatGPT What WIRED’s Reviewers Recommend—Its Answers Were All Wrong (9 min read)
• Status | Chasing Creator Currency (7 min read)

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

• PBS | Instagram and YouTube found liable in landmark social media addiction trial in California (6 min read)
• NiemanLab | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok are all bad at crediting news outlets, but ChatGPT is the worst (at least in this study) (10 min read)
• The New York Times | Judge Rules Pentagon Restrictions on Press Are Unconstitutional (7 min read)
• The New York Times | New York Times Accuses Pentagon of Defying Court Order (2 min read)
• The Verge | Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines (9 min read)
• NiemanLab | ProPublica’s union authorizes the first U.S. newsroom strike over AI protections (11 min read)
• NBC News | OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video-creation app (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | The Threats and Bare-Knuckle Tactics of MAGA’s Top Antitrust Fixer (23 min read)

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• The New York Times | With Threats and Claims of ‘Treason,’ Trump Pressures Media on the War (10 min read)
• The Wrap | Former Newsmax Executive Christopher Wallace Named as Voice of America Deputy Director (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | What Entertainment Might Look Like in 20 Years (11 min read)
• The Guardian | Lisa Nandy vows to give BBC permanent charter to prevent political interference (5 min read)
• USA Today | FCC chair threatens broadcasters over Iran war coverage (4 min read)
• PressGazette | UK Government backs down on plan to water down copyright in favour of AI firms (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Why I’m Suing Grammarly (9 min read)
• Los Angeles Magazine | Silicon Valley’s Move Into Hollywood (8 min read)
• Deadline | Trump & Newsom Spar Over Censorship & POTUS’ Despotic Claim To Be “Reshaping The Media” (4 min read)

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• NiemanLab | A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI “experts” (5 min read)
• The Verge | Grammarly says it will stop using AI to clone experts without permission (3 min read)
• NPR | Trump is using immigration policy to suppress speech, lawsuit claims (15 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World’s Largest Media Company (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Judge Voids Mass Layoffs at Voice of America (4 min read)
• Digiday | GEO hype busted: How it differs (and how it doesn’t) from SEO (11 min read)
• Futurism | Evidence Grows That Google’s AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry (4 min read)
• MSNow | High-stakes First Amendment suit against the Pentagon heads to court (8 min read)

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• The New York Times | Tech, TV, Movies and News: Ellisons on Brink of Colossal Empire (3 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | As Broadcast Slowly Dies, Niche-casting Is on the Rise (4 min read)
• CNET | A Long-Running AI Copyright Question Gets an Answer as Supreme Court Stays Mum (2 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Can AI Save Local News? (3 min read)
• Growtika | The Internet’s Most-Read Tech Publications Have Lost 58% of Their Google Traffic Since 2024 (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Paramount-Warner Deal Promises to Shake Up Streaming (4 min read)
• CNN | Trump says he will attend White House Correspondents’ Dinner for the first time as president (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | “Same values, same mission, same ethics”: How the Houston Chronicle chooses creators to work with (17 min read)

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• The New York Times | Judge Rebukes U.S. Over Application to Search Reporter’s Home (2 min read)
• The Guardian | Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video to come under stricter regulation in UK (2 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Marketplaces Are the Next Frontier in Publisher Deals With AI Companies (5 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers chase video podcast growth, but audio still leads (5 min read)
• CJR | Mending Local News in a Crisis (6 min read)
• Pew Research Center | Email Newsletters as a Source of News (5 min read)
• Future Media | Publishers react to Zuck’s mobster offer on AI (41 min listen)
• MIT News | Study: AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users (6 min read)

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

• The New York Times |Hollywood Braces for New Round of Labor Talks (4 min read)
• Digiday | In Graphic Detail: The scale of the challenge facing publishers, politicians eager to damage Google’s adland dominance (3 min read)
• The Financial Times | Apple faces new tensions with Trump administration (3 min read)
• Reuters | Google hit by European publishers’ complaint to EU over AI Overviews (2 min read)
• Poynter | How to build a newsroom plan for responding to First Amendment threats (3 min read)
• Pew Research Center | Americans’ Complicated Relationship With News (10 min read)
• CJR | Disarming the Global Free Press (6 min read)
• The Guardian | Arrested journalist Don Lemon urges US to ‘keep fighting’ for right to free press (3 min read)

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• Bloomberg | Google Search Ruling to be Appealed by DOJ, States (2 min read)
• Digiday | In Graphic Detail: The puny nature of regulatory fines compared to Big Tech’s financial prowess (3 min read)
• Axios | Disney’s succession looks different this time (3 min read)
• PressGazette | AI answers cite ‘narrow range’ of top newsbrands led by BBC and Guardian (4 min read)
• CJR | The Astonishing Arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort (7 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Some Brands Aren’t Spending Like YouTube Is the New TV (6 min read)
• Digiday | A running list of publisher lawsuits targeting Google’s ad tech practices (8 min read)
• The New York Times | Pentagon Defends Restrictions on Media Outlets (3 min read)

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

• The Verge | Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI (6 min read)
• CJR | The Fight over AI at McClatchy (6 min read)
• MediaPost | SCOTUS To Rule On Reagan-Era Video Privacy Law (3 min read)
• The Washington Post | Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books (11 min read)
• PressGazette | Google ‘exploring updates’ to let publishers opt out of AI Overviews (8 min read)
• NiemanLab | A scrappy story-sharing tool with local newsroom DNA gains traction (8 min read)
• The Washington Post | Trump has ramped up lawsuits against the media. Here’s where they stand. (16 min listen)

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• The New York Times | ‘We’ll Sue’: White House’s Warning to CBS Is Sign of a New Media Status Quo (5 min read)
• Vulture | Everything (Including Netflix) Will Become YouTube This Year (5 min read)
• PressGazette | Five US publishers sue Google over ‘deceptive and manipulative’ adtech practices (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | US regulator appeals Meta’s antitrust win (3 min read)
• CJR | Nothing Is Secure (8 min read)
• NiemanLab | US Media in the Crosshairs (13 min read)
• Digiday | In Graphic Detail: Why platforms are turning social video into living room TV (3 min read)
• PressGazette | Global news industry revenue level in 2025 as publishers diversify beyond print (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | Combating disinformation must not be confused with censorship (3 min read)

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• The Financial Times | The US is losing its battle to break up Big Tech (6 min read)
• The New York Times | New York Times Case Against Pentagon Will Move Quickly (2 min read)https://
• Digiday | Why publishers are building their own creator networks (9 min read)
• ArsTechnica | News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more. (5 min read)
• Axios | The year big events came back (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Corporation for Public Broadcasting Votes to Shut Down (1 min read)
• CJR | What the Dissolution of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Means (5 min read)

Ten must-read digital media industry news stories you may have missed during the holiday break, curated by DCN, the only trade association that exclusively serves media companies.

• The Financial Times | The relentless rise of YouTube (13 min read)
• Politico | How budget bickering and Dolly Parton politics warped California’s Google news deal (13 min read)
• AP | A rough year for journalists in 2025, with a little hope for things to turn around (5 min read)
• Wall Street | The Year the Newsletter Business Reached a Fever Pitch (4 min read)
• The New York Times | They Seek to Curb Online Hate. The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship. (4 min read)
• The Guardian | More than 20% of videos shown to new YouTube users are ‘AI slop’, study finds (5 min read)
• The Deadline | Streamer Report Card: Streaming Reached A Profit Turning Point In 2025, But Major Players Still Wonder How To Measure Success (14 min read)
• ProPublica | Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation. (7 min read)
• Semafor | What media leaders got wrong in 2025 (21 min read)
• Digiday | A timeline of the major deals between publishers and AI tech companies in 2025 (5 min read)