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)
  

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

• Associated Press | Judge allows newspaper copyright lawsuit against OpenAI to proceed (1 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘We need to set the terms or we’re all screwed’: how newsrooms are tackling AI’s uncertainties and opportunities (6 min read)
• Press Gazette | Google news revenue research ‘self serving’, ‘pure propaganda’ say industry experts (8 min read)
• The Verge | Lawmakers are trying to repeal Section 230 again (3 min read)
• Axios | Supreme Court declines to hear challenge to landmark press freedom case (2 min read)
• Deloitte | 2025 Digital Media Trends: Social platforms are becoming a dominant force in media and entertainment (17 min read)
• The Wall Street journal | Ad Forecaster Reduces Growth Prediction for 2025, Citing Poor Economic Visibility, Low Consumer Confidence (2 min read)
• NPR | Judge freezes Trump plan to dismantle Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (5 min read)
• Variety | How Streaming Services Can Stay Ahead of the AI and Social Media Disruption Wave (5 min read)
  

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

• Bloomberg | The Growing Battle Over How to Define a ‘Podcast’ (6 min read)
• Reuters | US appeals court rejects copyrights for AI-generated art lacking ‘human’ creator (2 min read)
• Fast Company | The most innovative companies in media and news for 2025 (14 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers don’t really know how Google AI Overviews is impacting their referral traffic (5 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | AI Search Has A Citation Problem (15 min read)
• Wired | The Anti-DEI Agenda Is Reprogramming America (4 min read)
• The Atlantic | Trump’s Attempts to Muzzle the Press Look Familiar (8 min read)
• Fortune | How news organizations should overhaul their operations as the gen AI threatens their livelihoods (6 min read)

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

• NiemanLab | News unions are grappling with generative AI. A new study shows what they’re most concerned about (6 min read)
• Semafor | Democrats introduce bill to defang Carr’s aggressive FCC (3 min read)
• Pressgazette | With launch of AI Mode Google threatens to bleed news media dry (6 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Top YouTube Creators to Hold Their Own Upfront Event in Bid for TV Ad Dollars (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | “More alarming by the day”: New York Times investigations editor on the legal threats faced by news publishers (13 min read)
• The New York Times | A Long-Shot Bet to Bypass the Middlemen of Social Media (6 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | DEI Is Disappearing in Hollywood. Was It Ever Really Here? (7 min read)
• American Press Institute | Develop your influencer strategy (32 min read)
  

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

• The Atlantic | Why It Matters Who Asks the Questions (10 min read)
• The New York Times | Can the Media’s Right to Pursue the Powerful Survive Trump’s Second Term? (40 min read)
• Futurism | ChatGPT and Other Chatbots Are Hurting Publishers Even Worse Than We Thought (2 min read)
• Digiday | Journalists are using generative AI tools without company oversight, study finds (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | A new public policy agenda has a vision for “local news for the people” (8 min read)
• PressGazette | £13.6bn publisher adtech claim versus Google takes step forward (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | The L.A. Times adds AI-generated counterpoints to its opinion pieces and guess what, there are problems (7 min read)
• Politico | What Antitrust ‘Reformers’ Got Wrong (11 min read)
• Techdirt | Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) (10 min read)