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)
  

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

• The New York Times | The Streaming Wars Come Down to 2: YouTube vs. Netflix (8 min read)
• NiemanLab | New report maps a “severe” shortage of local journalists in the U.S. (9 min read)
• TechCrunch | Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines (3 min read)
• Adweek | Suspected AI Content Halves Reader Trust and Hurts Ad Performance (3 min read)
• Politico | Judge rules Los Angeles police can’t use nonlethal weapons against journalists (1 min read)
• The New York Times | PBS and NPR’s Last-Ditch Fight to Save Funding (5 min read)
• AP | Senate passes $9 billion in spending cuts to public broadcasting, foreign aid requested by Trump (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | Eight Things We’ve Learned About Hollywood This Year (9 min read)
• CNBC | As media reckons with strategic shifts, a new crop of leaders is coming into play (8 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | The AI Scraping Fight That Could Change the Future of the Web (5 min read)
• The New York Times | YouTube Pirates Are Cashing In on Hollywood’s Summer Blockbusters (5 min read)
• The Logic | What happens to the news business when people stop clicking? (6 min read)
• The Guardian | I chaired the FCC. The 60 Minutes settlement shows Trump has weaponized the agency (4 min read)
• Associated Press | A ‘click-to-cancel’ rule, intended to make cancelling subscriptions easier, is blocked (1 min read)
• The Atlantic | A New Era of Internet Regulation Is About to Begin (7 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Trump’s Lawfare Against the Free Press (3 min read)
• Press Gazette | Where do UK ‘decision makers’ get their news? Publishers, social media and AI (3 min read)

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)