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)

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

• The New York Times | Inside Google’s Plan to Stop Apple From Getting Serious About Search (6 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | Artists Lose First Round of Copyright Infringement Case Against AI Art Generators (6 min read)
• MIT Technology Review | Three things to know about the White House’s executive order on AI (8 min read)
• Digiday | As news aggregator referral traffic slips, publishers turn their attention inward (4 min read)
• Vanity Fair | Why a Murderers’ Row of Media Barons Want to Buy The Telegraph (9 min read)
• CNN | AI Chatbots are scraping news reporting and copyrighted content, News Media Alliance says (3 min read)
• The New York Times | Tug-of-War Over N.B.A. Rights Provides Glimpse of Media’s Future (7 min read)
• NBC News | Supreme Court wades into social media wars over free speech (3 min read)

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

• The New York Times | Silicon Valley Ditches News, Shaking an Unstable Industry (7 min read)
• Variety | ‘Pause Ads’ Creep Onto Hulu, Peacock and Max as Streamers Seek New Revenue (6 min read)
• Press Gazette | Half of top newsbrands see fall in search visibility after latest Google core update (5 min read)
• NiemanLab | Here’s a look at how the newly up-to-date ChatGPT reports the latest news (6 min read)
• Associated Press | States sue Meta claiming its social platforms are addictive and harm children’s mental health (1 min read)
• The New York Times | What the U.S. Has Argued in the Google Antitrust Trial (7 min read)
• The Guardian | TechScape: How the UK’s online safety bill aims to clean up the internet (7 min read)
• The Verge | Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig on why AI and social media are causing a free speech crisis for the internet (45 min read)

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

• The Verge | The Google antitrust trial has been frustratingly locked down — the NYT just filed a motion to open it up  (2 min read)
• The Financial Times | ‘Netflix effect’ returns as studios license old shows to their streaming rival (3 min read)
• Forbes | In A New Era Of Deepfakes, AI Makes Real News Anchors Report Fake Stories (7 min read)
• Bloomberg | Netflix is still the only profitable streaming company: Analyst (6 min listen)
• The Wall Street Journal | How the NBA Plans to Remake TV Deals and Net Billions of Dollars for Its Stars (6 min read)
• Pew Research | How Americans View Data Privacy (1h read)
• Poltico | How a billionaire-backed network of AI advisers took over Washington (12 min read)
• Bloomberg | EU Plans Stricter Rules for Most Powerful Generative AI Models (5 min read)