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

• NiemanLab | “Biased,” “boring,” “chaotic,” and “bad”: A majority of teens hold negative views of news media, report finds (5 min read)
• The New York Times | A.I. Sweeps Through Newsrooms, but Is It a Journalist or a Tool? (7 min read)
• The Athletic | Illegal streaming: Research reveals rise in piracy and desire for scrapping of 3pm blackout (5 min read)
• Engaget | Meta is killing off the external Facebook Like button (1 min read)
• Wired | Welcome to Big Tech’s ‘Age of Extraction’ (8 min read)
• The Financial Times | EU readies fresh investigation into Google over news publisher rankings (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | BBC resignations are a symbol of mounting pressure on public broadcasters in the Trump era (5 min read)
• .coda | The Werewolf game: an interview with Google’s former news chief Richard Gingras (41 min read)
  

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

• CJR | How AI Browsers Sneak Past Blockers and Paywalls (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | Box-Office Duds Are Becoming Streaming Hits (7 min read)
• NiemanLab | Hundreds of thousands of videos from news publishers like The New York Times and Vox were used to train AI models (11 min read)
• The New York Times | White House Limits Reporters’ Access to Press Secretary’s Office (4 min read)
• The Atlantic | The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers (10 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Journalists are souring on social media platforms, an analysis of 11 years of Nieman Lab predictions suggests (6 min read)
• Follow the Money | How Google fooled Brussels: the tech giant’s playbook exposed (11 min read)
• The Financial Times | It’s time to build the intention economy online (4 min read)

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

• Bloomberg | Warner Bros. Discovery Sale Pits Billionaires Against Each Other (10 min read)
• PBS News | Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to allow it to fire head of U.S. Copyright Office (2 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Why Podcast Advertisers Are Holding Back Close to $1 Billion (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | News creators get more attention in countries where traditional media struggles (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Under Trump, Voice of America Is Down but Not Out (12 min read)
• Harper’s | Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media? (33 min read)
• The New York Times | Radio Free Asia Will Halt News Operations Amid Shutdown (4 min read)
• Pew Research Center | Many Americans say they often come across inaccurate news – and have a hard time knowing what’s true (2 min read)

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

• Digiday | AI royalties for small and midsize publishers: collective licensing’s next big play (6 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | The (Academic) Case Against the Netflix Episode-Release Strategy (3 min read)
• The New York Times | OpenAI Unveils Web Browser Built for Artificial Intelligence (2 min read)
• Reuters | AI assistants make widespread errors about the news, new research shows (2 min read)
• NPR | Hollywood pushes OpenAI for consent (4 min read)
• Axios | Independent newspapers disappear as private investment firms take over (3 min read)
• Shelly Palmer | AdCP (Ad Context Protocol): A Real Attempt To Make Agents Buy Media (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | In Medill’s latest State of Local News report, a “festering, 20-year-old problem” looms larger than ever (9 min read)

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

• The New York Times | How the Pentagon Is Blocking Out News Organizations (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Inside Hegseth’s Effort to Limit Press Access at the Pentagon (5 min read)
• Deadline | Media Outlets, Ranging From The Atlantic To Newsmax, Refuse To Sign New Pentagon Press Policy — Update (4 min read)
• AP | Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agree to new reporting rules (5 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | How Google Is Walking the AI Tightrope (5 min read)
• The Verge | OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama (7 min read)
• Derek Thompson | Everything Is Television (12 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | YouTube Just Ate TV. It’s Only Getting Started (29 min read)
  

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

• The New York Times | U.S. v. Google: What Each Side Argued for Fixing Google’s Ad Tech Monopoly (4 min read)
• Pew Research Center | Relatively few Americans are getting news from AI chatbots like ChatGPT (2 min read)
• Digiday | From walls to frameworks: Publishers and tech giants push weekly talks on AI content use (7 min read)
• The Financial Times | Have we passed peak social media? (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Corporate Anxiety Is Fueling a Multimillion-Dollar Industry of Gen Z Translators (5 min read)
• CJR | Reddit Is Winning the AI Game (5 min read)
• CNN | Pentagon charges ahead with press restrictions ‘designed to stifle a free press,’ media orgs say (4 min read)
• NiemanLab | Bari Weiss’s CBS News and MSNBC both just laid out their new journalistic principles — and they’re fascinatingly different (5 min read)
  

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

• NBC News | FCC chair to testify before Senate panel after bipartisan blowback over Jimmy Kimmel suspension (1 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out (4 min read)
  
• Search Engine Journal | The Impact Of AI Overviews & How Publishers Need To Adapt (14 min read)
  
• Deadline | In YouTube TV Carriage Battles, Media Companies Say Tech Giant Is After Their Streaming Lunch Money (6 min read)
  
• PressGazette | Publishers with AI licensing deals have seven times the clickthrough rate (4 min read)
  
• Poynter | AI is everywhere. Editors should be, too. (4 min read)
• Pew Research | Americans have mixed feelings about AI summaries in search results (3 min read)
• The New York Times | California Governor Signs Sweeping A.I. Law (3 min read)
  

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

• Axios | FCC commissioner criticizes administration for “weaponizing” agency’s authority (1 min read)
• The New York Times | U.S. Asks Judge to Break Up Google’s Advertising Technology Monopoly (4 min read)
• Digiday | Remedies vs reality: Publishers weigh what Google’s ad tech break up could really deliver (8 min read)
• Variety | Trump Rages at Jimmy Kimmel and ABC as Late-Night Show Returns: ‘A True Bunch of Losers!’ (4 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | America’s Most Trusted News Stars in the Trump Era Are … (8 min read)
• Bloomberg | Breakup of Google Ad Tech Monopoly on the Table in Remedy Trial (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Jimmy Kimmel may be back, but TV networks are more vulnerable to political pressure than ever before (6 min read)
• The New Republic | Trump’s Ouster of Jimmy Kimmel Is Much Worse Than You Think It Is (5 min read)
• The New Yorker | The A.I. Bubble Is Coming for Your Browser (7 min read)

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

• Bloomberg | Amazon, Google Probed by FTC Over Search Advertising Practices (4 minute read)
• CNN | Trump’s lawsuit against The New York Times is meritless, First Amendment experts say (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | What We Do and Don’t Know About US TikTok Deal With China (4 min read)
• Press Gazette | AI bots appear to be replacing human traffic on publisher websites (5 min read)
• Axios | Free speech fight shifts (3 min read)
• Wall Street Journal | TV Industry Bets AI Can Peel Ad Dollars Away From Big Tech (5 min read)
• Axios | Publishers shift AI ire to Google (3 min read)
• The New York Times | After Trump’s Cuts, ‘Crippled’ NPR and PBS Stations Must Transform (10 min read)
  

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

• The New York Times | Why Google Got Off Easy (4 min read)
• NBC News | AI company Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with authors (2 min read)
• Bloomberg Law | Anthropic Judge Blasts $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement (4 min read)
• The Verge | The web has a new system for making AI companies pay up (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Brendan Carr Channeling Trump’s Showman Instincts to Overhaul FCC (6 min read)
• Forbes | A Huge Google Change Coming ‘Soon’ Should Terrify News Publishers (4 min read)
• The Guardian | Global press freedom suffers sharpest fall in 50 years, report finds (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Shows Created by Women Rise Sharply, but Only on Streaming TV (2 min read)
• PressGazette | AI bots bombard publisher websites with ‘no meaningful value exchange’(6 min read)
• NiemanLab | From reckoning to retreat: Journalism’s DEI efforts are in decline (18 min read)

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)