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

• The New York Times | Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage (3 min read)
• Bloomberg | What Should AI Guardrails Look Like? A Guide to the Proposals (6 min read)
• Puck | Hollywood Is About to Have a Bot Fraud Problem (4 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | TV’s So White Again: Diversity Now Seen as “Optional” (9 min read)
• Variety | What Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Reveals About Media’s Future (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | From bad to worse: 2026 is shaping up to be “a super El Niño year for local news” (3 min read)

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

• NiemanLab | ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists’ signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons (9 min read)
• The New York Times | Why a Court Order Didn’t Stop Trump From Keeping Reporters Off Air Force One (5 min read)
• https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/business/media/trump-cnn-ms-now-politico-ban.html
• PressGazette | Facebook cash-for-links scheme excludes publishers (for now) (4 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | ‘Artificial’ Took on a Big Tech Giant. Hollywood Wasn’t Ready (8 min read)
• Gallup | U.S. Media Trust: Edges Up From Record Low (3 min read)
• Local News Initiative | Chicago Public Media CEO Melissa Bell is Leading the Nation’s Most Watched Local News Experiment (6 min read)
• NiemanLab | A study of nonprofit newsrooms reveals some cracks in the model’s foundation (11 min read)
• Syracuse University | A Hard Reality: Independent Local Journalism in the United States (3 min read)

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

• The Guardian | Blanche defends Trump’s White House media ban: ‘It is a privilege, not a right’ (4 min read)
• Nieman Reports | Seven Takeaways on Convenience and News (9 min read)
• Digiday | Condé Nast, Hearst among 300 media execs to push federal ‘bad bots’ bill on AI scraping (4 min read)
• Politico | News publishers accuse Trump admin of bias toward AI companies in copyright suit (2 min read)
• The New York Times | Google Wants Hollywood to Stop Being So Afraid of Technology (7 min read)
• Gallup | U.S. Media Trust: Edges Up From Record Low (2 min read)
• Wired | The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here (4 min read)

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

• The Hollywood Reporter | Like, Subscribe and Govern: The White House Is Creating Its Own Media Ecosystem (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Microsoft and OpenAI Workers Worry About ‘Largest Theft of Labor’ in History (3 min read)
• 404 Media | ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft (3 min read)
• The New York Times | As Big Tech Takes Over Hollywood, the Picture Onscreen Gets Darker (8 min read)
• WSJ | Tech Companies’ Staff Knew Their AI Tools Posed ‘Existential Threat’ to Publishers (3 min read)
• Variety | Major TV Networks Suspend White House Pool Coverage of Trump in Protest of His CNN Ban (2 min read)
• The New York Times | The ‘Kid’ Takes Over: David Ellison Becomes a Hollywood Colossus (5 min read)
• AdExchanger | The Google Antitrust Remedies Are Too Little, Too Late – But Publishers Will Take What They Can Get (6 min read)

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

• The New York Times | Judge Orders Data Sharing and Other Fixes to Solve Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly (3 min read)
• Variety | Streaming Prices Continue to Balloon: Is ‘Streamflation’ at a Breaking Point? (2 min read)
• CJR | The Future of Visual Investigations, If We Can’t Trust Our Eyes (12 min read)
• Forbes | Streaming Services Are All Using Podcasts Differently (12 min read)
• NiemanLab | Protein grams and retirement plans: Service journalism enters its next era (5 min read)
• Pew | Americans Value Press Freedom but Differ on Its Limits (9 min read)
• The New York Times | How Trump Is Wielding Power to Stifle Speech (13 min read)
• Poynter | Local news audiences aren’t disappearing, but their habits are changing fast (6 min read)
• Wired | Polymarket’s Next Bet? It Can Also Be a Media Company (2 min read)

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

• Bloomberg | Google Avoids Ad Exchange Sale as Judge Orders Tech Integration (2 min read)
• PressGazette | Amazon and Meta AI bots account for most website visits (3 min read)
• Los Angeles Times | How Google is courting Hollywood to use its AI tools (5 min read)
• The New York Times | F.T.C. and 22 States Claim in Lawsuit That Amazon Secretly Inflated Ad Prices (3 min read)
• Reuters | EU antitrust regulators quiz publishers on Google’s AI search opt-out (1 min read)
• AP | For a century, journalists have had a voluntary ethics code. Editors are giving it an AI-era reboot (5 min read)
• Reuters | US government backs OpenAI in New York Times copyright case (2 min read)
• Columbia Journalism Review | Should the Press ‘Run Toward’ AI? (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | California legislature passes a major local news funding bill: “If you hire more people, you get more money” (2 min read)

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

• The Financial Times | ‘Appeasement is not a strategy’: how media is fighting back against Trump’s legal threats (7 min read)
• Semafor | AI writing has already begun to appear on the opinion pages (3 min read)
• Reuters | Meta’s social media settlement leaves its money machine unscathed (3 min read)
• AdExchanger | Why Social Media’s Ad Dominance Is A Billion-Dollar Measurement Illusion (3 min read)
• The Ankler | First Look: Hollywood’s Secret AI Talks Go Public. Here’s the Plan (16 min read)
• The Wrap | Disney-FCC Lawsuit: Media Watchdogs Seek to Enter First Amendment Case (2 min read)
• The Financial Times | Yahoo, the internet’s ‘OG’, wants to win over Gen Z (3 min read)
• Digiday | The case for and against turning off Google crawlers (40 min read)

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

• The Guardian | Revealed: FCC chair Brendan Carr’s close ties to White House and rightwing media (6 min read)
• Reuters | Microdramas boom in a shrinking Hollywood as studios chase a TikTok audience (7 min read)
• CNBC | What will TV look like in three years? Media insiders share their predictions (11 min read)
• Digiday | European publishers are getting hit harder by AI bot scraping, report finds (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Sick of A.I. Slop? So Are Tech Giants. (5 min read)
• Axios | Trump’s media and defamation legal battles skyrocket (2 min read)
• United Nations | What’s journalism worth in disasters and emergencies? A lot, says a new UN report (5 min read)
• The Guardian | Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were ignored (20 min read)

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)