David Chavern

As we celebrate Free Speech Week, we highlight the important role that local media, who promote these freedoms, play in every local community ... Read More

News and magazine publishers have larger audiences than ever — but also need to create new products and distribution systems to drive a better future.  'Expanding the View' is designed to highlight interesting ideas and provoke some thinking ... Read More

News publishers and magazines have larger audiences than ever — but also need to create new products and distribution systems to drive a better future.  'Expanding the View' is designed to highlight interesting ideas and provoke some thinking ... Read More

Expanding the View is a monthly list of stories I've read in the last month to get you thinking. Examples of topics you'll find here include things on Web3, digital business models and other topics that have the potential to ... Read More

Expanding the View is a monthly list of stories I've read in the last month to get you thinking. Examples of topics you'll find here include things on Web3, digital business models and other topics that have the potential to ... Read More

While 2021 was another year full of challenges and uncertainty posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have many reasons to feel optimistic as we begin a New Year. The Alliance had a very exciting year of working on behalf of ... Read More

Facebook has announced it will limit sharing and viewing of news by publishers and users in Australia on its platform, in response to the proposed news media bargaining code in the country ... Read More

Microsoft President Brad Smith today outlined Microsoft’s support for the proposed bargaining code in Australia that would, among other things, require dominant tech platforms to negotiate with and compensate news publishers for use of their content ... Read More

Today, the News Media Alliance submitted a Declaration with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to strongly advocate to keep the ad tech antitrust lawsuit against Google – filed by the State of Texas and nine ... Read More

Despite the unimaginable challenges we faced in the last year, we still managed to move the needle on key needs and priorities of the news publishing industry. Below, we outline some of our many accomplishments of 2020, in which the ... Read More

We applaud all 10 states that have stepped forward to take action to address Google's flatly anticompetitive ad technology business.   ... Read More

Yesterday the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution, introduced by Rep. Val Demings (D-FL), calling for increased diversity in American media. The News Media Alliance applauds Rep. Demings and her fellow sponsors and co-sponsors, and joins them in their ... Read More

The past nine months have been uniquely trying for us all; yet as we enter the holiday season, I am reminded of all that we have to be thankful for – yes, even in 2020. It may not be the ... Read More

As we head into what is going to be a truly historic election, we must remember the importance of the freedoms granted by the First Amendment and the value of the free press. For many years – but especially in ... Read More

In response to the lawsuit filed today by the Department of Justice (DOJ) accusing Google of antitrust violations related to its search and advertising services, Alliance President and CEO, David Chavern, stated, "It is good that the DOJ is starting ... Read More

House Antitrust Chairman David Cicilline (D-RI) and the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law have released their long-awaited report on the anticompetitive behavior of the big tech platforms ... Read More