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

• Digiday | AI Briefing: Copyright battles bring Meta and OpenAI datasets under the microscope (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Audience editors offer advice for “dispiriting” times in social and search (7 min read)
• Semafor | Inside the tug-of-war between AI and news publishers (3 min read)
• Deadline | New FCC Chair Revives Complaints About ABC, CBS And NBC Content That His Predecessor Rejected As “At Odds With The First Amendment” (5 min read)
• Pressgazette | Six things publishers should do now to protect themselves from AI scrapers (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | Netflix is winning streaming’s battle royale (2 min read)
• Digiday+ Research | Publishers’ feelings about the media industry are shaky, but they’re still optimistic for 2025 (3 min read)
• CNN | CNN defamation case foreshadows Trump media crackdown, experts say (3 min read)
• Economics Observatory | Why is the UK film and television sector struggling? (16 min read)

Here are some of the best media stories our team has read during the first few weeks of the new year:

• Bloomberg | How Journalism Will Adapt in the Age of AI (18 min read)
• Pressgazette | CMA to investigate Google search dominance and impact on news publishers (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Advertisers Keep Avoiding News Sites, and Publishers Have Had Enough of It (7 min read)
• Wired | That Sports News Story You Clicked on Could Be AI Slop (6 min read)
• The Financial Times | Will a weakened Hollywood embrace Trump 2.0? (6 min read)
• AdExchanger | Higher, Further, FAST-er: CTV Will Keep On Growing In 2025 (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Sports Streaming Service From Media Giants Ends Before It Starts (3 min read)
• TechCrunch | Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta’s Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims (4 min read)
• Digiday | OpenAI, The New York Times debate copyright infringement of AI tech companies in first trial arguments (7 min read)
• The Financial Times | Disney’s Fubo settlement shows digital content is a contact sport (2 min read)

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

• The New York Times | Media Moguls Set the Stage for Deal Mania (4 min read)
• The Financial Times | UK looks at forcing greater transparency on AI training models (4 min read)
• The New Yorker | The Year Creators Took Over (2 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | From Fox News to NBC, Legacy Media Wants in on TikTok (6 min read)
• The New York Times | Here’s a Hollywood Twist: Streaming Success Runs Through Theaters (8 min read)
• Worklife| DEI in 2024: milestones, setbacks and shifting priorities (5 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Media Deals Outlook: “Pent-Up Demand” to Fuel Big Year in 2025 (3 min read)
• The Verge | How to disappear completely (11 min read)

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

• The Financial Times | Advertising revenues set to hit $1tn in market dominated by technology companies (3 min read)
• Deadline | Journalist Protection Bill Blocked In Senate After Tom Cotton Objects To Speedy Passage (3 min read)
• Semafor| Weakened US public broadcasters will fight for their lives in 2025 (10 min read)
• The Verge | TikTok failed to save itself with the First Amendment (10 min read)
• The Financial Times | Billionaires plan overhaul of US news groups as media confronts trust issue (3 min read)
• Deadline | The Rise And Fall Of YA TV: How Creators & Development Execs Are Appealing To Gen Z In The Age Of TikTok (12 min read)
• Reuters | Brussels seeks more information on secret Google-Meta ads deal targeting teens, FT reports (1 min read)
• Shorenstein Center | The Future of Trustworthy Information: Learning from Online Content Creators (21 min read)

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

• CJR | How ChatGPT Search (Mis)represents Publisher Content (11 min read)
• The New York Times | Canada Accuses Google of Creating an Ad Tech Monopoly (3 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Australia Bans Social Media for Under-16s With World-First Law (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | News outlets push vertical video to the homepage (8 min read)
• The New York Times | What’s Next for Google’s Search Monopoly (5 min read)
• Poynter | As journalists think of leaving X for Bluesky and Threads, media experts see pros and cons (9 min read)
• Bloomberg | FTC, Meta Face April 14 Trial Over Suit to Break Up Company (1 min read)

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

• Bloomberg | Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser (6 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Netflix Sued Over Alleged Backroom Deal With Meta to Stand Down on Streaming (3 min read)
• Digiday | Google is getting ready to unveil how Chrome’s cookie opt-in model will work, sources say (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Why Everyone Is Now Watching Podcasts on YouTube (6 min read)
• The New York Times | How Google Spent 15 Years Creating a Culture of Concealment (13 min read)
• NBC News | 1 in 5 U.S. adults get their news from social media influencers, according to Pew report (3 min read)
• Politico | Trump taps Brendan Carr to chair FCC (3 min read)

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

• The Verge | Google is testing the ‘impact’ of removing EU news from search results (2 min read)
• The New York Times | The Streaming Wars Didn’t Kill the Little Guys. In Fact, They’re Thriving. (5 min read)
• The Current | Analysts: New documents highlight the strength of the DOJ case against Google (3 min read)
• The Financial Times | The starting gun has sounded on US media consolidation (2 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | A New Streaming Customer Emerges: The Subscription Pauser (4 min read)
• Techcrunch | It’s the Senate’s last chance to pass the PRESS Act (2 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Google Executive Picked to Supercharge News Efforts Has Resigned (2 min read)
• The Atlantic | Bad News (11 min read)

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

• CNN | Trump’s return to power raises serious questions about the media’s credibility (5 min read)
• Press Gazette | News organisations are forced to accept Google AI crawlers, says FT policy chief (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Kay Koplovitz Wants to See More Entrepreneurs Who Look Like Her (9 min read)
• Axios | Trump’s media playbook (3 min read)
• Press Gazette | How publishers use AI to boost productivity: From audio editions to exploiting archives (4 min read)
• Variety | Donald Trump Presidency Could Make 2025 a ‘Breakout Year for M&A’ With Deregulation on the Table (3 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | U.K. Government Proposes Changes to Media Merger Laws “for the Digital Age” (2 min read)
• Axios | Ziff Davis study says AI firms rely on publisher data to train models (3 min read)

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

• The Guardian | Journalism is the lifeblood of British democracy. My government will protect it (3 min read)
• Financial Times | From Paddington Bear to Gladiator, tax breaks lure productions from Hollywood heartland (7 min read)
• The New York Times | California Governor Proposes $750 Million in Annual Film Tax Credits (7 min read)
• Variety | Six Biggest Companies to Spend Record $126 Billion on Content in 2024, up 9%, Led by Disney (3 min read)
• CTV | Google exempt from Online News Act for 5 years, must pay news outlets $100M: CRTC (1 min read)
• The Washington Post | Opinion: The hard truth: Americans don’t trust the news media By Jeff Bezos (4 min read)
• Semaphor | Rivals scramble to react to Washington Post endorsement crisis (3 min read)

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

• The New York Times | Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law (6 min read)
• NiemanLab | Why millions of Americans avoid the news — and what it means for the election (12 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Meet Hollywood’s AI Doomsayer: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (3 min read)
• Techcrunch | Ireland adopts Online Safety Code for video-sharing platforms including TikTok (6 min read)
• NPR | Jailed reporters, silenced networks: What Trump says he’d do to the media if elected (7 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Wall Street Journal, New York Post Sue AI Startup Perplexity, Alleging ‘Massive Freeriding’ (3 min read)
• The Verge | Disney Plus and Hulu won’t let you sign up through Apple anymore (1 min read)
• The New York Times | As Election Looms, Disinformation ‘Has Never Been Worse’ (6 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | This AI Pioneer Thinks AI Is Dumber Than a Cat (8 min read)
• NPR | Canceling subscriptions has to be as easy as signing up, FTC says in a new rule (2 min read)
• The New York Times | What Should a Music Magazine Be in the TikTok Era? Pitchfork Alumni Have an Idea. (5 min read)
• Ars Technica | Apple Engineers Show How Flimsy AI ‘Reasoning’ Can Be (7 min read)
• PressGazette | Why Microsoft Copilot Daily launch is ‘moment of significance’ for news industry (5 min read)
• Gallup | Americans’ Trust in Media Remains at Trend Low (4 min read)
• Reuters | NYT sends AI startup Perplexity ‘cease and desist’ notice over content use (2 min read)

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

• The Financial Times | Will Google be broken up? (9 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Antitrust Officials Weigh Splitting Google, Others (4 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Tech “Death Stars” and “Horsemen of the Streaming Apocalypse”: Evan Shapiro Says Media Giants Can Not Just Survive But Thrive — If They Change (12 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | There’s a New Hit Podcast That Will Blow Your Mind (9 min read)
• PressGazette | Male experts dominate broadcast news (but far less than a decade ago) (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Athens Democracy Forum: Rethinking Journalism (7 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | The Social-Media Influencers Reshaping How Young Americans Get Their Political News (7 min read)
• Wired | The Race to Block OpenAI’s Scraping Bots Is Slowing Down (5 min read)