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Coverage of the publishers, platforms, and people shaping the media business in the AI era.
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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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Karl Stefanovic’s Exit Proves a Host’s Side Podcast Is Now the Broadcaster’s Biggest Liability
An activist boycott knocked Nine’s stock to a three-month low and forced out its biggest morning star over an interview he recorded on his…
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Penske Sued Google and Washington Pulled Fable 5 — the AI Free-for-All Era Just Ended
Penske Media takes Google to court over AI Overviews on the same day the UK forces a publisher opt-out — while Washington yanks Anthropic’s…
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The Smartest Publishers Aren’t Fighting AI — They’re Charging for What It Can’t Replace
Daily Mail Australia has lost nearly half its readers in a year to paywalls and AI search summaries — while Le Monde quietly used…
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Netflix’s Sudden Deal Hunger Marks the End of Media’s Build-It-Yourself Era
Netflix, which built a streaming empire by refusing to buy its way there, is suddenly hunting acquisitions from Lionsgate to Roku — while Penske…
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Publishers Stop Suing AI Companies and Start Sending Them Invoices
A consumer-tech site logged 1.6 million AI scrapes in a single day and 300 clicks in return — and publishers are done suing over…
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CBS and CNN Are Courting a Merger to Escape a Trust Crisis That Scale Can’t Fix
CBS News and CNN executives are quietly meeting about a merger as Paramount circles Warner Bros. Discovery — the same week a study found…
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Bots Now Outnumber Readers, and Publishers Must Choose Between Charging the Machines and Building What They Can’t Copy
Automated crawlers have passed human readers as the web’s majority audience — and at WAN-IFRA’s Marseille congress the industry split in two: license the…
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Fox’s $22 Billion Roku Deal Proves the Real Prize in Streaming Is the Operating System, Not the Content
Fox is paying about $22 billion for Roku on the theory that owning the operating system beats owning the shows — while two profitable…
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A $110 Billion Merger Cleared Washington Without a Fight — and the Real Story Is Who’s Left in the Middle
Washington waved through the $110 billion Paramount Skydance–Warner Bros. Discovery merger without a single condition — while a profitable local publisher showed that 400…
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