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

• The Financial Times | Despite existential crisis, new media start-ups keep coming (4 min read)
• Reuters | Google hit with $2.3 bln lawsuit by Axel Springer, other media groups (2 min read)
• Adam Tinworth | The second age of digital journalism is over (5 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Streaming to Overtake Pay TV Subscription Revenue in the U.S. This Year (2 min read)
• The New York Times | What to Know About the Supreme Court Arguments on Social Media Laws (6 min read)
• CNN | Kara Swisher warns news organizations need to ‘reinvent’ themselves amid existential crisis (7 min read)
• The New York Times | How the Media Industry Keeps Losing the Future (10 min read)

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

• The Verge | The text file that runs the internet (15 min read)
• Bloomberg |  Regulate AI? How US, EU and China Are Going About It  (5 min read)
• Digiday | Key talking points as the deadline for Google’s Privacy Sandbox draws ever-near (5 min read)
• Nieman Lab | Journalism Needs Leaders Who Know How to Run a Business (20 min read)
• Bloomberg |  Streaming a Movie Abroad May Soon Come With Taxes at the Border (5 min read)
• Promarket | Taking Stock of Google’s Antitrust Troubles as the World Turns Against It (13 min read)
• Check My Ads | Jezebel’s new owner has a request for advertisers: Please stop hurting journalism (7 min read)
• Jacobian | US Media Is Collapsing. Here’s How to Save It. (8 min read)
• The Washington Post | Local media is struggling. Government subsidies would make it worse. (2 min read)

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

• Wall Street Journal | Why Three Media Giants Made a Hail Mary Bet on Sports Streaming (12 min read)
• Future Media | Antitrust warrior issues call to arms, but does media have any fight left? (4 min read)
• The Information | Meta Cuts Funding for Fact-Checking on WhatsApp as Elections Loom (4 min read)
• Axios | FTC chair Khan: Stop monopolies before they happen (2 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Sarah Silverman, Authors See Most Claims Against OpenAI Dismissed by Judge (4 min read)
• The Verge | DOJ’s Jonathan Kanter says the antitrust fight against Big Tech is just beginning (35 min listen)
• Press Gazette | News media versus AI: What if we win? (8 min read)
• Washington Monthly | How Fighting Monopoly Can Save Journalism (27 min read)
• CJR | Artificial Intelligence in the News: How AI Retools, Rationalizes, and Reshapes Journalism and the Public Arena (1 h read)

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

• The New York Times | Apple Overhauls App Store in Europe, in Response to New Digital Law (6 min read)
• The Verge | Spotify accuses Apple of ‘extortion’ with new App Store tax (2 min read)
• Poynter | How AI could sap — or save — local news (16 min read)
• The New York Times | The Sleepy Copyright Office in the Middle of a High-Stakes Clash Over A.I. (6 min read)
• The Financial Times | Social media chiefs on defensive at US online child protection hearing (4 min read)
• Bloomberg | Apple Accused by Epic of Failing to Fix App Store as Court Asked (1 min read)
• NiemanLab | How to meet readers where they are (when where they are is offline) (6 min read)
• Hollywood Reporter | The Hollywood Jobs Most At-Risk From AI (5 min read)

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

• Variety | As Paramount, WB Discovery and Others Weigh M&A Options, Is More Consolidation Really the Answer to Hollywood’s Profit Problem? (13 min read)
• The New York Times | Billionaires Wanted to Save the News Industry. They’re Losing a Fortune. (6 min read)
• NBC | States turn their attention to regulating AI and deepfakes as 2024 kicks off (3 min read)
• Wired | Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them (5 min read)
• Bloomberg | Streaming Pirates Are Hollywood’s New Villains (7 min read)
• The New York Times | I Am Going to Miss Pitchfork, but That’s Only Half the Problem (5 min read)
• World Economic Forum | Defending truth (45 min view)

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

• The Verge | The web is filled with content designed for Google, not humans. (29 min read)
• Digiday | How media execs are bracing for another year of ad turmoil while finding the bright spots (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | OpenAI In Talks With Dozens of Publishers to License Content (2 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | What’s next for AI regulation in 2024? (9 min read)
• The Verge | OpenAI claims The New York Times tricked ChatGPT into copying its articles (3 min read)
• The Washington Post | AI’s future could hinge on one thorny legal question (9 min read)
• Reuters Institute | Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2024 (52 min read)
• NAHJ | The Damned Pipeline: U.S. News Industry’s Broken Parity Promise (5 min read)
• Spectrum IEEE | Generative AI Has a Visual Plagiarism Problem (26 min read)

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

• The New York Times | Big Tech’s Bitter Battle With the Free Press (6 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal |News Publishers See Google’s AI Search Tool as a Traffic-Destroying Nightmare (8 min read)
• Women’s Media Center | Women of Color in U.S. News Leadership 2023 (17 min read)
• The New York Times | Google’s Antitrust Loss to Epic Could Preview Its Legal Fate in 2024 (5 min read)
• Time | How Epic Games’ Legal Victory Against Google Could Upend Apple’s App Store, Too (6 min read)
• The Verge | How Twitter broke the news (12 min read)
• Lion Publishers | Direct funding alone does not make a news business more sustainable (10 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | European Parliament Votes Not to Ban Geo-Blocking for Film and TV — For Now (2 min read)
• The Washington Post | Actually, people don’t hate the media as much as you think (6 min read)

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

• The Hollywood Reporter | Netflix and Apple Open Door to Bundling With Streaming Rivals (3 min read)
• NiemanLab | Here’s how 13 news outlets are using LinkedIn newsletters (18 min read)
• Wired | The Generative AI Copyright Fight Is Just Getting Started (3 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | Make no mistake—AI is owned by Big Tech (8 min read)
• Adweek | Only One-Third of Every Programmatic Dollar Reaches End-User, ANA Report Finds (3 min read)
• The Mediator | Disney, Charter and the Second Coming of TV Everywhere (2 min read)
• Digiday | How AI regulation differs in the U.S. and EU (3 min read)
• Reuters Institute | Changing Newsrooms 2023: Media leaders struggle to embrace diversity in full and remain cautious on AI disruption (1hr read)

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

• The Wall Street Journal | Advertising Is Dead. Long Live Advertising. (6 min read)
• Mediaite | Sorkin Grills Elon Musk For ‘Throttling’ The New York Times: ‘What Does That Say About Free Speech?’ (2 min read)
• The New York Times | The N.F.L. Looks Beyond Game Day to Try to Create a Streaming Universe (8 min read)
• Digiday | Mythbuster: How the inconsistent definition of click-through rates affects publishers and their advertisers (6 min read)
• IT World Canada | ‘Meta has editorial power to use indiscriminately if content threatens their bottom line’, says Center for Countering Digital Hate (3 min read)
• CNN | Major brands are not only pausing ads on Elon Musk’s X. They’re stepping away from the platform altogether (3 min read)
• Financial Times | Elon Musk delivers diatribe against advertisers over X boycott ‘blackmail’ (3 min read)
• AdExchanger | Adalytics Exposes An Alleged $10.5 Billion Black Hole In The Google Search Partners Program (7 min read)
• The New York Times | At Meta, Millions of Underage Users Were an ‘Open Secret,’ States Say (5 min read)

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

• Bloomberg | Hollywood’s labor stoppage is over, but a painful industry-wide transition isn’t (5 min read)
• Digiday | Media companies announce more layoffs to cut costs, blaming a relentlessly challenging ad market (5 min read)
• The Conversation | Researchers warn we could run out of data to train AI by 2026. What then? (4 min read)
• The Vanguard | We thought Apple made a fortune from Google’s search engine. We were wrong: it earns much more (2 min read)
• NPR | Spoken Word Audio in U.S. Hits New Highs for Audience Reach and Share (3 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | ‘Digital Discrimination’ in the Crosshairs of New FCC Rule (4 min read)
• The New York Times | Google’s C.E.O. Takes Another Turn on the Antitrust Witness Stand (8 min read)
• Slate | The Supreme Court Is Reconsidering Its Entire Approach to the Internet. Uh-Oh. (7 min read)

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

• CNN | Actors’ union reaches tentative deal with Hollywood film and TV studios, ending historic strike (6 min read)
• The Verge | AI companies have all kinds of arguments against paying for copyrighted content (5 min read)
• Bloomberg | For Every Hit TV Show, There Are More Than 100 Misses (6 min read)
• Future Media | What we’ve learned as Google’s antitrust trial nears an end (4 min read)
• The Guardian | 85% of people worry about online disinformation, global survey finds (3 min read)
• Washington Post | A newspaper giant tried to diversify its staff. White workers sued. (10 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | How Netflix Conquered Hollywood — And Then Broke It (15 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Can Congress Save MrBeast and Tom Hanks From AI Deepfakes? (5 min read)
• The Verge | The people who ruined the internet (43 min read)