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

• Semafor | Spotify’s new ‘skip’ button could end the podcast business as we know it (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Apple in Talks to Pay Publishers to Improve AI-Powered Siri (1 min read)
• The Financial Times | US press groups sue Donald Trump over fast access to Truth Social posts (2 min read)
• The Drum | Streaming is changing. That doesn’t mean Netflix wants to be TikTok (6 min read)
• NiemanLab | We analyzed 6,400 New York Times stories to find out how comments change when you give readers more information (3 min read)
• Wired | The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact (3 min read)
• CJR | Revising the Ethics Code (6 min read)
• The Guardian | AI agents aren’t legally responsible for any harm that they cause, experts say. So who is? (4 min read)

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

• Digiday | The Rundown: Google’s legal woes with ad tech rivals (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | David Ellison’s Risky Courtroom Strategy to Save His $81 Billion Warner Deal (6 min read)
• The Verge | Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying (12 min read)
• Bloomberg | Podcasters Are Building Businesses Off Free TV Channels (5 min read)
• Digiday | As Hollywood studios chase creator culture, ownership gets complicated (4 min read)
• Reuters | Trump vowed to ‘bring free speech back.’ Judges in 75 cases ruled that he has stifled it (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | A record-breaking eight Pulitzer awardees disclosed AI use this year (9 min read)
• CJR | Defusing Misinformation Through Humor (6 min read)
• The National Interest | Why US Media Should Be Independent from the State Department (4 min read)

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

• Press Gazette | ‘First tremors’ of AI earthquake showing in digital revenue hit (3 min read)
• Status | Parsing Paramount’s Pause (8 min read)
• Local News Initiative | Is this Reddit’s moment for local news? (5 min read)
• Forbes | How AI Is Rewriting The Economics Of Streaming Advertising (7 min read)
• Press Gazette | New research reveals AI answers only as trusted as the newsbrands they cite (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Canada to Cease Compelling U.S. Streamers to Help Finance Domestic Broadcasting (1 min read)
• The Financial Times | AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying (3 min read)
• ArsTechnica | ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author’s style (3 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off. (4 min read)
• TechCrunch | Anthropic’s landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved (2 min read)
• Press Gazette | Google search traffic to leading UK publishers set to halve by Q3 2027 (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Google Is Building an A.I. Fence Around the Internet It Once Championed (6 min read)
• Digiday | In Graphic Detail: AI visibility is no longer about referral traffic (5 min read)
• The Current | The AI Effect, Part 2: The streaming wars are about AI now (3 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Peter Thiel’s AI Tribunal Put Journalists on Trial. Now It’s Pivoted to Scoreboard Model (4 min read)
• New York Magazine | Can Trump’s DOJ Force the NY Times to Reveal Their Sources? (5 min read)

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

• The Verge | Google and Epic give up fighting — third-party Android app stores are coming next week (3 min read)
• The New York Times | States Prepare Lawsuit to Block Paramount’s Merger With Warner Bros. (4 min read)
• USA Today | Hegseth launches Pentagon crackdown on media leaks (2 min read)
• The Guardian | Is Donald Trump winning his war against the media? (5 min read)
• FT | How AI changes the rules of engagement for sports viewers (2 min read)
• Press Gazette | Claude’s ability to remix ‘liquid content’ is ‘serious challenge for news media’ (6 min read)
• Digiday | Inside the newsroom push to turn print reporters into video talent (5 min read)
• FT | Paramount and Disney are chasing a pre-stream pipe dream (2 min read)

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

• Press Gazette | Google AI changes could deal further blow to publisher Discover traffic (5 min read)
• New York Post | Google looks to bleed publishers with new AI partnerships that would cull their content (3 min read)
• Digiday | Media Briefing: ‘Surveillance pricing’ laws are coming for dynamic subscription strategies (9 min read)
• Adweek | Streaming Is Becoming a Storefront (2 min read)
• The New York Times | This Company Reviving AOL, Vimeo and Other Internet Oldies Amid the A.I. Boom (6 min read)
• TechCrunch | California law targeting loud streaming ads takes effect on July 1 (1 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | FCC’s Carr Says ABC Is Running a ‘Campaign of Misinformation’ on Probe (3 min read)
• USA Today | Supreme Court lets landmark journalist protection stand (2 min read)
• The Guardian | UK watchdog plans to break Apple and Google’s ‘effective duopoly’ on mobile app stores (2 min read)\
• Wired | FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez Will Fight for Press Freedom—Until Trump Fires Her (27 min read)

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

• The Financial Times | Ministers to make YouTube and Meta boost prominence of UK news (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | The use of AI chatbots for news is on the rise — but not everywhere (4 min read)
• TechCrunch | Instagram looks to take on streaming services with longer-form, episodic and live formats for its TV app (1 min read)
• The New York Times | Microdramas, Often Dismissed as Lowbrow Curiosities, Eye the Mainstream (5 min read)
• Axios | Jim VandeHei: Writing with AI (4 min read)
• The Guardian | ABC encourages viewers to back network amid FCC investigations (2 min read)
• UNESCO | UNESCO launches consultation on fair payment for news in the digital age (1 min read)
• Press Gazette | Creative industries to get new monthly print tabloid mag (2 min read)
• PwC | Global entertainment and media advertising revenues to hit US$1.4 trillion in 2030 – as global box office continues recovery (4 min read)

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

• Press Gazette | Publishers to bill AI firms for unwanted scraping – and take them to court if they don’t pay (5 min read)
• The Guardian | UK social media ban ‘likely to cause £1.3bn drop’ in digital advertising spend (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | News sites are the new newspapers: People are abandoning them for social media (13 min read)
• Reuters | UK orders Google to improve search transparency to boost competition (2 min read)
• Mediabistro | AI Search and Digital Strategy Roles Signal a New Era in Media Hiring (3 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | Hollywood Diversity Report: Streaming Films Have Abandoned Women and People of Color (2 min read)
• CNBC | How Roku fits into Fox‘s future — and what investors are missing about the deal (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | How should news organizations label their AI use for audiences? New studies suggest some answers (3 min read)
• MediaPlayNews | Pixalate: Mobile Driving 70% of Streaming Audience, Connected TV 30% (2 min read)

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

• PressGazette | US publishers tell Common Crawl to stop scraping and delete archive (4 min read)
• The Decoder | Landmark German ruling declares Google’s AI Overviews are Google’s own words and makes it liable for false answers (6 min read)
• Digiday | Google’s AI opt-out leaves publishers with a choice they can’t safely use (7 min read)
• The Financial Times | After the final whistle: media groups battle for World Cup attention (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | What kind of stories are best at turning local news readers into subscribers? It’s hard news, not the soft stuff (8 min read)
• The New York Times | A Murdoch Builds His Own Media Empire. Is This ‘Succession’ or Secession? (8 min read)
• Insider Radio | Video Reshapes Podcasting As Audience Hits New High, Study Finds. (3 min read)
• Center for Integrity in News Reporting | New poll results: Trust in the media stays low, but confidence in specific national outlets runs higher (4 min read)

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

• The New York Times | A.I., Journalism and the Uncertain Future of the Public Square (21 min read)
• PressGazette | Google regulation crackdown in UK over AI use of publisher content (8 min read)
• The Guardian | YouTube overtakes Netflix in average daily viewing around the world (3 min read)
• Digiday | How publishers are modeling – and mitigating – a future with significantly less Google search traffic (5 min read)
• The Guardian | Pentagon bars journalists from entering its press office citing re-designation (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | The emerging AI content licensing market puts news publishers in a “double bind,” a new report warns (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Canada Orders Broadcast Regulator to Review Contentious Online Streaming Decision (3 min read)
• FT Strategies | Future Newsrooms Study 2026: A global benchmark of how newsrooms are changing, what they are prioritising and where they are going next (60 min read)
• The New York Times | What 370,000 College Essays Tell Us About A.I.’s Effects on Creativity (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | You couldn’t create a more anti-news internet if you tried (10 min read)

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

• The Verge | AI radio hosts demonstrate why AI can’t be trusted alone (2 min read)
• The Financial Times | ‘The US needed a shock to the system’: Brendan Carr, media watchdog (11 min read)
• Bloomberg | Chatbots Struggle With News Accuracy and Sourcing Ahead of Midterms (3 min read)
• Adweek | Amazon Cut Affiliate Commissions Up to 50% for Some Publishers, Leaving Them Reeling (1 min read)
• Bloomberg | Video Adoption Propels Global Podcast Sales to Record High of $9.2 Billion (1 min read)
• Axios | The great digital media valuation collapse (2 min read)
• Fast Company | AI scraping has become its own media business (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Creator journalism is the most disruptive shift the news industry has seen, ex-BBC News head says (30 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | The TV Ad Market Is Being Taken Over by Streaming Platforms (3 min read)
• Poynter | The NFL’s streaming future is becoming a major media and political fight (6 min read)
• Reuters | Journalists sue Google for allegedly using their voices in AI training (1 min read)
• Variety | Nine Major TV Companies in Partnership to Tie Commercials to Business Results (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Can Microdramas Save Hollywood? (4 min view)
• NiemanLab | “Affiliation, not just access”: Newsrooms try to move beyond membership to a focus on “belonging” (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Silicon Valley’s A.I. Lobbying Reaches a Fever Pitch (10 min read)
• TBPN | Condé Nast CEO Explains Why Human Journalism Wins in the AI Era (47 min view)