Media
7 stories, 56 sources cited
Google has made AI Mode the default. Brussels and London are now testing whether publishers can refuse.
Chartbeat data published by the Reuters Institute put global Google search referrals to publishers down by about a third in the year to November 2025.
Sources cited: 9 sources
The FCC waived the 39 per cent TV ownership cap for Nexstar, and a court then ordered Tegna held separate
The Media Bureau's order of 19 March 2026 granted Nexstar a waiver rather than changing the rule, on a post-discount national reach of 54.5 per cent,
Sources cited: 8 sources
The order freezing Paramount's Warner Bros. deal expires today, and no injunction has replaced it
Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin's restraining order, issued on 20 July 2026 and extended on 23 July, runs out on 17 August. Rule 65 caps it at 28 days,
Sources cited: 7 sources
Australia's news levy reached Parliament with a smaller base, a higher rate and AI chatbots still outside it
The News Bargaining Incentive was introduced on 13 August 2026 charging 2.5 per cent of Australian digital advertising revenue, not the 2.25 per cent
Sources cited: 10 sources
Ten per cent now use AI chatbots for news each week, and 4 per cent of people click through to the source
The Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2026, published on 16 June 2026 across 48 markets, records weekly chatbot news use rising from 7 per cent to
Sources cited: 6 sources
CPJ counted 129 press deaths in 2025, 47 of them classed as murder and 39 involving drones
The Committee to Protect Journalists published its 2025 count on 25 February 2026: 129 journalists and media workers killed, 86 attributed to Israel,
Sources cited: 7 sources
The EU's first Digital Services Act fine against X was about blue ticks, an ad database and researcher access
The European Commission fined X 120 million euros on 5 December 2025 over three things: a paid badge reviewed in 53 to 79 seconds on average, an ad da
Sources cited: 9 sources