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)
  

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

• Axios | White House strikes back at AP, takes over press pool coverage from reporter group (2 min read)
• The New York Times | White House Moves to Pick the Pool Reporters Who Cover Trump (5 min read)
• Pew Research | No consensus on who comes to mind when Americans are asked to name a news influencer (3 min read)
• PressGazette | ChatGPT referrals to top publishers up eight times in six months but still negligible (4 min read)
• The Guardian | UK ministers consider changing AI plans to protect creative industries (3 min read)
• The Washington Post | Google’s AI-generated answers might pose a monopoly problem (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Federal Funding Crackdown Imperils Global Newsrooms (6 min read)
• The Guardian | ‘A true free-speech emergency’: alarm over Trump’s ‘chilling’ attacks on media (5 min read)

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

• The Guardian | EU accused of leaving ‘devastating’ copyright loophole in AI Act (6 min read)
• The Financial Times | Hollywood on defensive as Donald Trump’s anti-DEI crusade targets creatives (5 min read)
• Semafor | Democrats, influencers huddle for a new new media strategy (5 min read)
• Wired | The 50-Year-Old Law That Could Stop DOGE in Its Tracks—Maybe (9 min read)
• NiemanLab | Blurred lines: When it comes to news habits, age may be more important than nationality (3 min read)
• Money Inc. | The Digital Entertainment Revolution: How Streaming, Gaming and Social Media Are Redefining Leisure (7 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | Designing the future of entertainment (20 min read)
• Deadline | Donald Trump And The FCC Chairman Are Waging War On The News Media As Much Of The Industry Frets Over Whether To Fight Back – Analysis (11 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | America Needs a Working-Class Media (10 min read)

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

• The New York Times | Who’s Watching What on TV? Who’s to Say? (6 min read)
• PressGazette | Most generative AI responses based on news content contain inaccuracies (5 min read)
• Axios | Trump’s defamation and media litigation spikes (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | Less is more, and discounts work: A new study looks at the minutiae of paywall strategy (5 min read)
• Wired | Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US (3 min read)
• The New York Times | 5 Notes From the Big A.I. Summit in Paris (7 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Super Bowl Viewership Hits New Record With Big Boost From Free Streaming (7 min read)
• The Financial Times | Strongmen celebrate as Trump aid freeze hits media (7 min read)

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

• Axios | PBS poll finds broad Trump voter support amid GOP defunding push (2 min read)
• Digiday | How publishers are choosing which LLMs to use (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | OpenAI’s Sora Filmmaking Tool Meets Resistance in Hollywood (4 min read)
• The New York Times | How a Sale of TikTok Would Work and Who Might Buy It (6 min read)
• The Financial Times | EU pushes ahead with enforcing AI Act despite Donald Trump warnings (4 min read)
• PressGazette | FT policy chief warns MPs watered-down copyright regime for AI is ‘huge mistake’ (4 min read)
• Poynter | I’m a Gen Z journalist. My generation doesn’t know what that means. (9 min read)
• AdExchanger | The Latest On Chrome’s Cookie Choice Prompt (It’s Gonna Be ‘Global’) (4 min read)

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

• Wired | ‘Neo-Nazi Madness’: Meta’s Top AI Lawyer on Why He Fired the Company (10 min read)
• PressGazette | Google owes UK news industry £2.2bn from 2023 alone, claims new research (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Welcome, Podcasters! White House Wants New Media at the Press Briefing (3 min read)
• Digiday | Google’s latest Chrome update leaves third-party cookie phase-out as unclear as ever (4 min read)
• Variety | Copyright Office Offers Assurances on AI Filmmaking Tools (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | EU industry urges Brussels to continue probes into Big Tech (4 min read)
• Semafor | Media traffic shows signs of another Trump bump (2 min read)
• NBC News | Why DeepSeek is different, in three charts (4 min read)