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Coverage of the publishers, platforms, and people shaping the media business in the AI era.
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“The Google Search Model Is Dead.” So Publishers Are Racing Back Into the Platform Trap.
USA Today’s CEO says the Google search model is “dead” — and publishers from the New York Times to Hearst are pivoting back to…
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Paramount Cleared Washington. Now a Dozen States Want to Kill Its Merger — and That’s the New Media M&A Reality.
A dozen state attorneys general moved to block Paramount’s Warner Bros. deal just days after it cleared federal antitrust — and David Ellison is…
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USA Today’s CEO Calls Google Search ‘Dead’ — and Vox’s Numbers Show He Can Afford to Mean It
The head of the largest local-news operator in America says he’s ready to block Google entirely — while Vox posts the affiliate math that…
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The BBC’s Paywall Grew Its Audience. That’s the Whole Argument Against Renting One.
The BBC put a price on its journalism and watched its audience get bigger, not smaller — while a publishing-tech CEO argues that in…
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Cloudflare’s Pay-Per-Answer Plan Shows Publishers Still Don’t Set the Price of Their Own Work
Cloudflare moves to charge AI companies each time they use a publisher’s content in an answer — but the buyers still hold the pricing…
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Nine Feeds Microsoft’s AI and Project Syndicate Loosens Its Paywall — the Business of Media Is Betting Against Scarcity
Nine becomes the first Australian publisher to pipe its mastheads into Microsoft’s Copilot and calls it protecting its journalism — while Project Syndicate proves…
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The Web’s Biggest Publishers Are Preparing to Quit Google — Because the Traffic Is Already Gone
At Cannes the CEOs of People Inc and Gannett said the traditional Google search bargain is dead and they’re ready to walk away —…
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The Hard Paywall Converts 1% of Readers — The Washington Post Is Building for the Rest
The Washington Post’s own data shows a hard paywall converts barely one reader in a hundred and a $2 article grows paying users faster…
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Comcast Splits in Two Because the Pipes Are Worth More Than the Programming
Comcast is cutting NBCUniversal loose because Wall Street values the pipes over the programming — while Yahoo and The Wall Street Journal bet the…
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Springer Nature Dumped Scientific American — Independent Publishers Just Proved That’s the Wrong Lesson
A 181-year-old magazine was sold off as non-core the same week it tried to unionize — while The Kitchn, Tangle, and Raptive each proved…
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