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wearethefrontier.org
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mediapost.com
Google Pays News Publishers For Content, Expands AI Pilot 10/16/2026
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peaklight.news
Why Is Selling Local Media Still So Hard? | Peaklight | Peaklight
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mediapost.com
Google Pays News Publishers For Content, Expands AI Pilot 10/16/2026
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journonews.com
McClatchy’s Cuts and the Beats That Disappeared - Journo News
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newsproduct.org
The Next Gen News Sprint Tool Kit: What 12 newsrooms learned from building AI-powered products for next gen audiences — News Product Alliance
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digiday.com
Reach has agreed to deal with Google
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wan-ifra.org
Platform native: how Kenya’s Nation Media Group is building direct relationships in the age of AI search - WAN-IFRA
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news.asu.edu
After 3 years of AI in newsrooms, what has changed? | ASU News
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newspapers.org
Case study: Automated real estate content cushions AI blow to search traffic at Shaw Media | America's Newspapers
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newsguild.org
Arizona Daily Star journalists announce union-organizing campaign | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
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channelnewsasia.com
CNN, Axios and other publishers join Google's AI news program - CNA
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shawlocal.com
Shaw Media partners with Google to explore new ways to deliver local news – Shaw Local
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blog.google
400 publications are now partnering with us on our News AI pilot program.
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niemanlab.org
Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites, legal experts say | Nieman Journalism Lab
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kuow.org
In an age of news deserts and ghost papers, what’s next for McClatchy?
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niemanlab.org
Google’s News AI pilot expands to over 400 publications, including U.S. local news outlets | Nieman Journalism Lab
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worldpressinstitute.org
The news Is changing. Can journalists keep up? - WPI
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editorandpublisher.com
Whither McClatchy, a once great newspaper company | Editor and Publisher
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radioink.com
News Deserts Widen, Leaving An Opening For Radio - Radio Ink
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nhonews.com
Navajo-Hopi Observer to merge into River City Newsgroup | News | nhonews.com
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subscriptioninsider.com
Substack Tests Brand-Funded Access to Paid Content
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cjr.org
California’s Big Bet on Government-Funded News - Columbia Journalism Review
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digiday.com
Wirecutter moves beyond affiliate revenue amid AI search shifts
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fipp.com
Getting Paid in the Age of Answer Engines: exploring People Inc.’s AI Model - FIPP
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fipp.com
Innovation in Media World Report 2026/2027 turns spotlight on AI monetisation, reducing platform dependency and the value of print - FIPP
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inma.org
INMA: As the traffic ad model ends, publishers need a new advertising playb...
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benton.org
The State of Local News 2026 | Benton Institute for Broadband & Society
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editorandpublisher.com
Another complicated Washington effort to support local news | Editor and Publisher
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holdthefrontpage.co.uk
Reach offers access to 25 online newsbrands in subscription 'bundle' - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage
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globalbankingandfinance.com
Daily Mirror publisher Reach hit by Google traffic slump
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rawdispatch.eu
Chatbots Cut News Traffic, Independent EU Outlets Say
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timeslive.co.za
Is Google’s AI starving the Daily Mirror’s owner of readers?
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mediajobsreport.com
Medill Report: U.S. News Deserts Surge as Newspaper Closures Accelerate - Media News Articles - Media Jobs Report
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editorandpublisher.com
Built for the long haul, Fresnoland turns local reporting into impact | Editor and Publisher
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editorandpublisher.com
Rural journalism isn't dead. But the old business model may be. | Editor and Publisher
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journonews.com
Takeovers and Cuts: How Ownership Changes Preceded the Layoffs at Washington Post, BuzzFeed and Local Papers - Journo News
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tvrev.com
Why Is Selling Local Media Still So Hard? — TVREV
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seattleweekly.com
Whither McClatchy, a once great newspaper company | The Free Press Initiative | Seattle Weekly
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serpjournal.com
Google Pays Publishers for AI Search Content as CTR Drops 52% — SERP Journal
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mediabistro.com
90% of Top News Sites Lost Traffic. The Responses Are Telling.
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bellevuechronicle.com
Whither McClatchy, a once great newspaper company | The Free Press Initiative | Bellevue Chronicle
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fayfo.com
Sinclair turns local TV news into daily video podcast on Substack
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mediacopilot.ai
Reach signs Google AI partnership for U.K. and Irish news
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poynter.org
Local newspaper closures have surged to more than three a week - Poynter
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mumbrella.com.au
Marketers and agencies summoned to come to grips with agentic buying - Mumbrella
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aicv.news
The New York Times joins SPUR, the publisher coalition on AI content use — AICV News
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clientconnect.assurant.com
Obit Pressconnects Ignites a New Era of Journalism with Groundbreaking Integration - Assurant
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sawahsolutions.com
Dagens industri lets AI decide when readers hit the paywall | AlphaRaaS
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inpublishing.co.uk
InPublishing: Why now is the time to create a newsroom for video
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axios.com
Local TV's chokehold makes newspapers look competitive
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editorandpublisher.com
Medill releases 2026 State of Local News Report as shifts in the local news landscape continue | Editor and Publisher
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laist.com
Lifeline for local news
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tomorrowspublisher.today
Reach is cutting the journalism it now needs readers to buy — Tomorrow's Publisher
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prnewswire.com
Local Media Consortium Launches SMB AI Study
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localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu
The State of Local News 2026 | Local News Initiative
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unite.ai
USA TODAY Sues OpenAI Over Copyrighted News Content in AI Training – Unite.AI
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taipeitimes.com
The journalists’ revolt against AI scraping - Taipei Times
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spectrumlocalnews.com
New AI tool for UNC Chapel Hill students
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seattletimes.com
A Florida local newspaper ran an op-ed. It was an Iranian AI fake | The Seattle Times
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tomorrowspublisher.today
SPUR has the publishers. Now it needs the receipts. — Tomorrow's Publisher
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citemetrix.com
Google Put a Price on AI Contribution. Citations Aren't Worth Anything. - CiteMetrix
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startupfortune.com
NYT, AFP and The Economist join SPUR coalition to make AI pay for news - Startup Fortune
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gxpress.net
How AI licensing works as an audience strategy - GXpress.net
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wan-ifra-aim.org
Kleine Zeitung’s plan for a web run by AI agents
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redmond-reporter.com
Whither McClatchy, a once great newspaper company | The Free Press Initiative | Redmond Reporter
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yowox.com
Google AI search pilot tests payments to publishers — Yowox
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newscaststudio.com
Sinclair launching digital news brand The National Press on Substack, YouTube - NCS | NewscastStudio
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medill.northwestern.edu
Local news deserts skyrocket as newspaper closures escalate, even as startups emerge, Medill study shows - Medill - Northwestern University
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thenextweb.com
NYT, AFP and Economist join SPUR coalition on AI use of news
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serpjournal.com
UK Forces Google to Offer AI Overviews Opt-Out for Publishers — SERP Journal
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inprofile.net
The Great Unbundling: Can DOJ Remedies Actually Break Google’s Ad Tech Stranglehold?
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pressgazette.co.uk
New York Times among sign-ups to AI licensing coalition SPUR - Press Gazette
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digiday.com
CNN takes All Access abroad to turn global reach into paying subscribers - Digiday
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journonews.com
Metro Proposes 61 Redundancies as Free Newspaper Audience Falls by a Fifth - Journo News
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