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)

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

• Axios | Ad market optimism persists despite macro volatility (5 min read)
• CJR | Fighting the Machine (10 min read)
• Bloomberg | The Audio Industry Is Grappling with the Rise of ‘Podslop’ (10 min read)
• The Guardian | World’s most powerful are suing media outlets before stories are even published, says editor (6 min read)
• NiemanLab | Newsletters, live coverage, a one-time magazine: The World Cup is becoming a testbed for journalism experiments (17 min read)
• Variety | More Than Half of Gen Z Users Cancel and Renew Streaming Services for a Single Title, Won’t Purchase Full-Price Video Games, New Study Finds (6 min read)
• RSF | 2026 RSF Index: press freedom at a 25-year low (17 min read)

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

• The Verge | Former FCC staffers agree: Brendan Carr needs to be stopped (5 min read)
• Adexchanger | Streaming Platforms Are Embracing Vertical Video. But At This Point, Is It Worth It? (7 min read)
• The Financial Times | Streaming services give TV adverts a new lease of life (9 min read)
• Pew Research Center | A growing share of Americans say they mostly get news because they happen to come across it, not because they’re actively seeking it out. (6 min read)
• Poynter | Why can’t newsroom leaders just be normal about AI? (7 min read)
• Axios | Audio’s old guard looks to consolidate (4 min read)
• The New Yorker | Inside the World-Conquering Rise of the Micro-Drama (26 min read)

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

• Wired | The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trump’s Media Critics (13 min read)
• Digiday | In Graphic Detail: New data shows publishers face growing AI bot, third-party scraper activity (8 min read)
• The Independent | Americans quit subscription streaming services in droves as cost of living continues to climb, report finds (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Social traffic kinda stinks for news publishers now, in 3 charts (2 min read)
• Bloomberg | EU Unveils Age Verification App as Social Media Bans Gain Steam (3 min read)
• The Financial Times | Can the traditional British tabloid survive the digital age? (9 min read)
• Wired | The Internet’s Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril (9 min read)

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

• Politico | Trump threatens to jail journalist who reported on crew’s rescue in Iran if they don’t reveal source (4 min read)
• The New York Times | How Accurate Are Google’s A.I. Overviews? (11 min read)
• The Verge | Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying (22 min read)
• PressGazette | Which journalists and news outlets are most cited by AI answer engines? (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Brands Adopt ‘No AI’ Disclaimers to Stand Out Amid the Slop (6 min read)
• The New York Times | Trump’s Media-Bashing Is Coming Back to Bite Him in Court (8 min read)
• CJR | ‘We Have to Identify Where We Are Adding Human Value’ (14 min read)
• Poynter | An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local journalists’ work (30 min read)

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

• The Guardian | ‘What’s going on?’: US judge calls aspects of new Pentagon press policy ‘weird’ (7 min read)
• The Wrap | The New Hybrid Journalist: Independent Operators, Big Media Reach (12 min read)
• The Financial Times | What to do when the ‘public good’ of information goes bad (6 min read)
• Axios | Video market plateaus amid fragmented streaming landscape (x min read)
• The New York Times | Trump’s Executive Order on NPR and PBS Is Unconstitutional, Judge Rules (3 min read)
• Wired | I Asked ChatGPT What WIRED’s Reviewers Recommend—Its Answers Were All Wrong (9 min read)
• Status | Chasing Creator Currency (7 min read)

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

• PBS | Instagram and YouTube found liable in landmark social media addiction trial in California (6 min read)
• NiemanLab | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok are all bad at crediting news outlets, but ChatGPT is the worst (at least in this study) (10 min read)
• The New York Times | Judge Rules Pentagon Restrictions on Press Are Unconstitutional (7 min read)
• The New York Times | New York Times Accuses Pentagon of Defying Court Order (2 min read)
• The Verge | Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines (9 min read)
• NiemanLab | ProPublica’s union authorizes the first U.S. newsroom strike over AI protections (11 min read)
• NBC News | OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video-creation app (4 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | The Threats and Bare-Knuckle Tactics of MAGA’s Top Antitrust Fixer (23 min read)

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

• The New York Times | With Threats and Claims of ‘Treason,’ Trump Pressures Media on the War (10 min read)
• The Wrap | Former Newsmax Executive Christopher Wallace Named as Voice of America Deputy Director (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | What Entertainment Might Look Like in 20 Years (11 min read)
• The Guardian | Lisa Nandy vows to give BBC permanent charter to prevent political interference (5 min read)
• USA Today | FCC chair threatens broadcasters over Iran war coverage (4 min read)
• PressGazette | UK Government backs down on plan to water down copyright in favour of AI firms (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Why I’m Suing Grammarly (9 min read)
• Los Angeles Magazine | Silicon Valley’s Move Into Hollywood (8 min read)
• Deadline | Trump & Newsom Spar Over Censorship & POTUS’ Despotic Claim To Be “Reshaping The Media” (4 min read)