• 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)

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• 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)

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• 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)

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• 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)

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• 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)

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• 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)

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• NiemanLab | A lot of journalism folks are offering editing advice as Grammarly’s AI “experts” (5 min read)
• The Verge | Grammarly says it will stop using AI to clone experts without permission (3 min read)
• NPR | Trump is using immigration policy to suppress speech, lawsuit claims (15 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | YouTube Lays Claim to Another Crown: The World’s Largest Media Company (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Judge Voids Mass Layoffs at Voice of America (4 min read)
• Digiday | GEO hype busted: How it differs (and how it doesn’t) from SEO (11 min read)
• Futurism | Evidence Grows That Google’s AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry (4 min read)
• MSNow | High-stakes First Amendment suit against the Pentagon heads to court (8 min read)

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• The New York Times | Tech, TV, Movies and News: Ellisons on Brink of Colossal Empire (3 min read)
• The Hollywood Reporter | As Broadcast Slowly Dies, Niche-casting Is on the Rise (4 min read)
• CNET | A Long-Running AI Copyright Question Gets an Answer as Supreme Court Stays Mum (2 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Can AI Save Local News? (3 min read)
• Growtika | The Internet’s Most-Read Tech Publications Have Lost 58% of Their Google Traffic Since 2024 (5 min read)
• The New York Times | Paramount-Warner Deal Promises to Shake Up Streaming (4 min read)
• CNN | Trump says he will attend White House Correspondents’ Dinner for the first time as president (2 min read)
• NiemanLab | “Same values, same mission, same ethics”: How the Houston Chronicle chooses creators to work with (17 min read)

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• The New York Times | Judge Rebukes U.S. Over Application to Search Reporter’s Home (2 min read)
• The Guardian | Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video to come under stricter regulation in UK (2 min read)
• The Wall Street Journal | Marketplaces Are the Next Frontier in Publisher Deals With AI Companies (5 min read)
• Digiday | Publishers chase video podcast growth, but audio still leads (5 min read)
• CJR | Mending Local News in a Crisis (6 min read)
• Pew Research Center | Email Newsletters as a Source of News (5 min read)
• Future Media | Publishers react to Zuck’s mobster offer on AI (41 min listen)
• MIT News | Study: AI chatbots provide less-accurate information to vulnerable users (6 min read)

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• The New York Times |Hollywood Braces for New Round of Labor Talks (4 min read)
• Digiday | In Graphic Detail: The scale of the challenge facing publishers, politicians eager to damage Google’s adland dominance (3 min read)
• The Financial Times | Apple faces new tensions with Trump administration (3 min read)
• Reuters | Google hit by European publishers’ complaint to EU over AI Overviews (2 min read)
• Poynter | How to build a newsroom plan for responding to First Amendment threats (3 min read)
• Pew Research Center | Americans’ Complicated Relationship With News (10 min read)
• CJR | Disarming the Global Free Press (6 min read)
• The Guardian | Arrested journalist Don Lemon urges US to ‘keep fighting’ for right to free press (3 min read)

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