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

• Digiday | Google AI Overviews linked to 25% drop in publisher referral traffic, new data shows (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | AI Is Replacing Online Moderators, But It’s Bad at the Job (11 min read)
• The Financial Times | Publishers race to counter ‘Google Zero’ threat as AI changes search engines (7 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | New ESPN, Fox Streaming Services Join a Baffling Landscape for Fans (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | Trump Threatens NBC, ABC Licenses Over News Coverage (2 min read)
• Rolling Stone | Who Killed the Narrative Podcast? (22 min read)
  

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

• The New York Times | Come One, Come All! Buy Your TV Subscriptions Here! (6 min read)
• Digiday | Google AI Overviews linked to 25% drop in publisher referral traffic, new data shows (7 min read)
• The Guardian | Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy (4 min read)
• The Wrap | Streaming Reaches Nearly Half of Total TV Viewing in July (2 min read)
• CJR | What Will the Next Era of Public Media Look Like? (8 min read)
• The New York Times | How Hulk Hogan Leg-Dropped the Digital Media Industry (7 min read)
• Wired | AI Isn’t Coming for Hollywood. It’s Already Arrived (18 min read)
• Pew | How Americans View Journalists in the Digital Age (7 min read)

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

• Bloomberg | Podcasting’s ‘Serial’ Era Ends as Video Takes Over (6 min read)
• Ars Technica | AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified (5 min read)
• Digiday | The publishers’ guide to being gaslit by tech platforms (the AI edition) (5 min read)
• The Verge | Google TV’s uncertain future (5 min read)
• Digiday | Despite the hype, publishers aren’t prioritizing GEO (4 min read)
• The New Yorker | What Happens to Public Media Now? (11 min read)
• The Atlantic | The Awkward Adolescence of a Media Revolution (7 min read)
• Wired | Inside the US Government’s Unpublished Report on AI Safety (5 min read)
  

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

• NiemanLab | The good, the bad, and the completely made-up: Newsrooms on wrestling accurate answers out of AI (11 min read)
• The Verge | Epic just won its Google lawsuit again, and Android may never be the same (5 min read)
• PressGazette | Why publishers should worry about growing reliance on Google Discover (5 min read)
• New York Magazine | SEO Is Dead. Say Hello to GEO. (10 min read)
• NiemanLab | President Donald Trump is again attacking the American press — this time not with fiery rally speeches or by calling the media “the enemy of the people,” but through the courts. (6 min read)
• Observer | How Sony Pictures ‘Won’ the Streaming Wars By Sitting Them Out (6 min read)
• Variety | Spike Lee, Adam McKay and 2,300 More WGA Members Sign Letter Blasting Trump’s ‘Authoritarian Assault’ on Free Speech (6 min read)
• Axios | Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down (3 min read)

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

• Reuters | Trump, FCC want to reshape the media landscape starting with CBS (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | Generative AI models love to cite Reuters and Axios, study finds (3 min read)
• The Guardian | AI summaries cause ‘devastating’ drop in audiences, online news media told (3 min read)
• Bloomberg | How Podcast-Obsessed Tech Investors Made a New Media Industry (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Whatever Happened to the TikTok Ban? (5 min read)
• NBC News | AI models may be accidentally (and secretly) learning each other’s bad behaviors (4 min read)
• Variety | U.S. Streaming Video Market to Surge 33% by 2029 to Over $112 Billion, PwC Forecasts (5 min read)
• RSF | Six months of Trump’s war on the press: importing and exporting authoritarian tendencies (6 min read)
  

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

• Wired | Trump Says He’s ‘Getting Rid of Woke’ and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech (2 min read)
• Politico | Trump will sue the WSJ, directs Bondi to unseal Epstein material (5 min read)
• PressGazette | Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users (4 min read)
• Pew Research | Google users are less likely to click on links when an AI summary appears in the results (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | Google Seeks Licensing Talks With News Groups, Following AI Rivals (4 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | AI Search Is Growing More Quickly Than Expected (5 min read)
• The Guardian | UK competition watchdog to act over Apple and Google’s mobile platforms (5 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | How YouTube Won the Battle for TV Viewers (9 min read)
• The Financial Times | The ‘hallucinations’ that haunt AI: why chatbots struggle to tell the truth (6 min read)
  

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

• The New York Times | The Streaming Wars Come Down to 2: YouTube vs. Netflix (8 min read)
• NiemanLab | New report maps a “severe” shortage of local journalists in the U.S. (9 min read)
• TechCrunch | Google Discover adds AI summaries, threatening publishers with further traffic declines (3 min read)
• Adweek | Suspected AI Content Halves Reader Trust and Hurts Ad Performance (3 min read)
• Politico | Judge rules Los Angeles police can’t use nonlethal weapons against journalists (1 min read)
• The New York Times | PBS and NPR’s Last-Ditch Fight to Save Funding (5 min read)
• AP | Senate passes $9 billion in spending cuts to public broadcasting, foreign aid requested by Trump (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | Eight Things We’ve Learned About Hollywood This Year (9 min read)
• CNBC | As media reckons with strategic shifts, a new crop of leaders is coming into play (8 min read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | The AI Scraping Fight That Could Change the Future of the Web (5 min read)
• The New York Times | YouTube Pirates Are Cashing In on Hollywood’s Summer Blockbusters (5 min read)
• The Logic | What happens to the news business when people stop clicking? (6 min read)
• The Guardian | I chaired the FCC. The 60 Minutes settlement shows Trump has weaponized the agency (4 min read)
• Associated Press | A ‘click-to-cancel’ rule, intended to make cancelling subscriptions easier, is blocked (1 min read)
• The Atlantic | A New Era of Internet Regulation Is About to Begin (7 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Trump’s Lawfare Against the Free Press (3 min read)
• Press Gazette | Where do UK ‘decision makers’ get their news? Publishers, social media and AI (3 min read)

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

• BBC | Google may be forced to link to rival search platforms in the UK (3 min read)
• The Guardian | Rise in ‘alert fatigue’ risks phone users disabling news notifications, study finds (3 min read)
• Pew Research | Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | AI-personalized news takes new forms (but do readers want them?) (6 min read)
• The New York Times | As U.S. Dismantles Voice of America, Rival Powers Hope to Fill the Void (7 min read)
• Wired | Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win—but Will Face Trial Over Piracy Claims (5 min read)
• The Wrap | The Mainstream News Battle Hits YouTube: How Fox News, CNN, MSNBC Stack Up (5 min read)
• CNBC | Creators say they didn’t know Google uses YouTube to train AI (6 min read)

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)