Press Releases

The News/Media Alliance has successfully secured the takedown of notorious paywall bypass website 12ft.io ... Read More

On July 8, a federal appeals court blocked the Federal Trade Commission’s pending final implementation of the “Click-to-Cancel” rule, which would have overhauled federal regulations around subscription and membership renewals ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance, the largest trade association representing the news media industry, released a statement upon President Trump signing his major policy package into law today ... Read More

Earlier today, a collection of news and magazine publishers suing AI company Cohere for copyright and trademark infringement filed a brief opposing the company’s motion to dismiss parts of the case.  ... Read More

Yesterday, Google announced a new feature called A.I. mode, which will allow users to interact with its search engine as if it were an A.I. chatbot ... Read More

On May 14, U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn, Richard Blumenthal, John Thune, and Chuck Schumer re-introduced the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) ... Read More

The News Media Alliance commends the Copyright Office for releasing a pre-publication version of its report on Generative AI Training, the third portion of its AI series ... Read More

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Representative Eric Swalwell (D-CA-14) reintroduced the Journalist Protection Act in the U.S. House and Senate ... Read More

The Oregon Senate Rules Committee voted 3-2 to advance SB 686, the Oregon Journalism Protection Act, which would require large online tech platforms to fairly compensate Oregon news organizations for local content that contributes to platform profits ... Read More

On April 30, the Canadian Journalism Collective announced that they have started distributing payments to publishers from Google’s payment under Canada’s Online News Act ... Read More

The DOJ Guidelines that were just rolled back shielded media of all types and ideologies, including conservative media who might now be vulnerable to targeting from future administrations. This shared interest is why the PRESS Act, also known as journalist ... Read More

Arlington, VA - Today, Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that Google had acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in advertising technology. This monopoly has allowed the company to force news ... Read More

Arlington, VA – Today, hundreds of news publishers launched the “Support Responsible AI” ad campaign, which calls on Washington to make Big Tech pay for the content it takes to run its AI products. To view all ads in the ... Read More

Arlington, VA - Today, the News/Media Alliance submitted a joint letter to U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on behalf of its members in the printing and news publishing industries asking the Commerce Department to forgo any implementation of tariffs on ... Read More

Arlington, VA - The News/Media Alliance today welcomed Greg Orlando as its new Senior Vice President of Government Affairs. In this role, Greg will work closely with the Alliance leadership team and staff to lead key legislative initiatives for the ... Read More

Arlington, VA - Today, the News/Media Alliance announced the launch of an AI licensing framework agreement with ProRata AI, who is working to ensure publishers and creators are fairly credited and compensated by generative AI.  As the leading trade association ... Read More

Arlington, VA - Today the News/Media Alliance, the leading trade association for the news and media industry representing over 2,200 publishers in the United States, submitted a letter to the founder and editor of Good Daily demanding the newsletter company ... Read More

Today, the News/Media Alliance submitted a proposal to the U.S. government in response to the Trump administration request for information in advance of its pending “AI Action Plan.” Read the full submission here. The submission outlines several ways in which ... Read More

Arlington, VA - Today Tollbit, an analytics and licensing platform for publishers and AI companies, released its first AI User Agent Index, a quarterly report that tracks overall trends in the scraping habits of the AI industry. The report details ... Read More

Today, February 13, a collection of news and magazine publishers, including Advance Local Media, Condé Nast, The Atlantic, Forbes Media, The Guardian, Business Insider, LA Times, McClatchy Media Company, Newsday, Plain Dealer Publishing Company, POLITICO, The Republican Company, Toronto Star Newspapers, and Vox Media, ... Read More

Arlington, VA – In 2024, the News/Media Alliance welcomed 17 new member organizations from across the country and around the world, expanding membership to represent outlets producing quality news media content across various mediums and audiences.  “We are thrilled to ... Read More

Today the News/Media Alliance commends the Bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Task Force on their leadership and thorough work in publishing their report that examines the issues surrounding the rapid growth and implementation of artificial intelligence. At the same time, the contents of ... Read More

Today the News/Media Alliance, along with other 10,500 signatories, signed the Statement on AI Training that rejects unlicensed training of generative AI models on creative work. It is a critical time for creators and publishers around the world with multiple ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance joins the Colombian Association of News Media (“AMI”) in its call to highlight the dangers the free press in Colombia face, and for its plea to the people of Colombia to ‘demand and defend their rights to ... Read More

The Department of Justice (DOJ) submitted its proposed remedies framework to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in connection to the historic antitrust lawsuit against Google for its anticompetitive practices in U.S. general search services and U.S. general search ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance today applauded Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) for signing California Assembly Bill 2863, legislation governing automatic subscriptions, authored by Assembly member Pilar Schiavo (D-Chatsworth). The bill passed the Legislature with broad bipartisan support ... Read More

Heavy magazine readers are a force when it comes to their influence on social media and with family, friends, and neighbors on their shopping and purchasing decisions, making them an important audience for advertisers, according to a new report released ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance applauds several U.S. Senators for sending a letter to the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission that raises antitrust concerns regarding new generative AI features that summarize or use creators’ work verbatim to answer questions, ... Read More

Today, over 120 participants representing news, magazine and digital-only publishers will meet with Senators and Representatives from 36 states on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. as part of a Support Journalism Fly-In hosted by the News/Media Alliance ... Read More

The Department of Justice (DOJ) submitted its proposed remedies framework to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in connection to the historic antitrust lawsuit against Google for its anticompetitive practices in U.S. general search services and U.S. general search ... Read More

Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom and Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland) announced a public-private partnership agreement with the state of California and Google to fund journalism. This is the first deal to be reached in the United States to compensate news ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance has successfully prompted the removal by several online code repositories of illegal web browser add-on software offerings from their websites ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance applauds California Senators for their continued support and steadfast commitment to passing the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA, AB 886) ... Read More

Today the Department of Justice (DOJ) ruled against Google in its historic lawsuit, finding that Google is in violation of antitrust laws for its anticompetitive practices in search and advertising, including against news media companies ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance today urged the International Trade Commission (ITC) to reject antidumping (AD) and countervailing duties (CVD) on imports of aluminum lithographic printing plates from Japan and China ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance celebrates the news that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been released in a multicountry prisoner swap on August 1st ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance commends the U.S. Copyright Office for today adopting the rule on group registration of updates to news websites ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance joins The Wall Street Journal and the broader journalism industry in condemning the wrongful conviction of journalist Evan Gershkovich to 16 years in a Russian prison ... Read More

Today the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA, AB 886) successfully passed out of the California Senate Judiciary Committee with a vote of 9-2 ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance joined a letter with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, along with over 50 other news media and press rights organizations, calling for the Senate to advance the ‘Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act’ (PRESS Act), S ... Read More

The Illinois state legislature on Wednesday approved $25 million in tax credits over the next five years (or $5 million a year) that will support journalism in the state. The funds are intended for use by newsrooms to hire and ... Read More

Today, the News/Media Alliance sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), urging the agencies to investigate Google’s monopolistic taking of digital news publishing and stop its latest expansion through its use of ... Read More

On Wednesday night the Illinois Senate Executive Committee voted favorably in a 10-3 bipartisan vote to advance Senator Steve Stadelman’s (D-Rockford) Journalism Preservation Act (JPA, SB 3591), which would require Big Tech platforms such as Meta and Google to pay ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance applauds Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senators Heinrich, Rounds and Young for soliciting a diverse set of views related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and their recognition of the importance of journalism in their new AI report ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance applauds additional publications for filing a lawsuit today in the Southern District of New York against Microsoft and OpenAI ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance applauds the passage of New York’s Newspaper and Broadcast Media Jobs Program, providing payroll tax credits for journalists. Starting next year, news entities of all sizes that are based in the State of New York are eligible ... Read More

Today the News/Media Alliance sent letters to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission and the California State Attorney General requesting that they investigate Google’s unprecedented decision last week to block or impede the ability of some Californians ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance commends Senator Maria Cantwell and Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers for resuming discussions around a federal privacy standard through their release of the draft American Privacy Rights Act. The Alliance has long advocated that the certainty of a ... Read More

Google today temporarily removed content by California-based news outlets from its Search platform, retaliating against proposed legislation in the state – the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA) – that would require Big Tech platforms, including Google and Meta, to pay ... Read More

This week, the News/Media Alliance released the results of a first of its kind public opinion survey on artificial intelligence and its implications on society, intellectual property rights, and the need for regulatory oversight ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance has elected nine new Directors to its Board of Directors. The new Alliance directors, elected on March 7, 2024, to two-year terms, include: ... Read More

Today the Illinois Senate Executive Committee, the Illinois Senate’s highest committee, will hold a hearing at 1:30 p.m. CT on the Illinois Journalism Preservation Act (SB 3591), which would require Big Tech platforms such as Meta and Google to pay ... Read More

On Wednesday, more than thirty European media companies brought a case against Google for its anticompetitive practices in the advertising technology marketplace. The case, filed in Amsterdam, is asking for 2.1 billion euros in damages ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance commends Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo and the Indonesian government for passing a law requiring Alphabet (owner of Google) and Meta (owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) to compensate local news outlets for use of their content ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance filed comments with the Copyright Office on February 20 in response to its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Group Registration of Updates to a News Website ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance applauds Illinois Senator Steve Stadelman (D-Rockford) for recently introducing the Journalism Preservation Act (SB 3591) in the Illinois Senate, which would require Big Tech platforms such as Meta and Google to pay news publishers a “journalism usage fee” ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance applauds the House of Representatives for unanimously passing H.R.4250—the Protect Reporters from Exploitative State Spying Act (PRESS Act). The PRESS Act would establish reasonable ground rules for when the government can obtain confidential source information from journalists and ... Read More

Today the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law will hold a hearing on “Oversight of A.I.: The Future of Journalism,” which will explore the impact of the growth of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) technology on publishers’ ability ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance applauds the Copyright Office for proposing a way for news publishers to efficiently register their online content ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance applauds The New York Times for filing its lawsuit asserting that Microsoft and OpenAI have violated the law by taking millions of the Times’s copyrighted works to use in their products ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance applauds Alliance member Axel Springer and OpenAI’s global partnership to strengthen independent journalism in the age of artificial intelligence (AI).  ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance welcomed 16 new member organizations in 2023, including large and small news, magazine, and digital media organizations from across the country and around the world, bringing the membership total to over 2,200 member organizations ... Read More

Today the California Senate Judiciary Committee will hold an Informational Hearing on “The Importance of Journalism in the Digital Age” to learn more about the state of journalism in the state, the challenges local newsrooms face and potential solutions, and ... Read More

Hundreds of millions of adults read news and magazine media each week. That finding and many others can be found in the newly released News/Media Alliance 2023 Market Report: News and Magazine Media: Providing a Trusted, Brand Safe Source for Reaching ... Read More

Today News/Media Alliance President & CEO Danielle Coffey is attending as an invited participant in a bipartisan forum hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on “AI – Transparency, Explainability, Intellectual Property, & Copyright.” ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance applauds the Canadian government for today’s deal with Google for its payment for the use of valuable news content on its Search platform ... Read More

Yesterday, the News/Media Alliance published a White Paper and a technical analysis and submitted comments to the U.S. Copyright Office on the use of publisher content to power generative artificial intelligence technologies (GAI). Together, the three publications document the pervasive, ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance has elected Tony Hunter, Chairman and CEO of McClatchy, as its Board of Directors chair ... Read More

Eighty-four participants representing news publishers in 25 states across the country will meet with Senators and Representatives on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. today as part of a Support Journalism Fly-In hosted by the News/Media Alliance. The Fly-In is being ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance has expanded its public policy team, with a final key role being filled today with the hiring of Neil Quinter as its new Senior Vice President, Global Government Affairs ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance today welcomed Regan Smith as its new SVP & General Counsel. In this role, Smith will work closely with the Alliance leadership team and staff to lead legal affairs and related public policy initiatives ... Read More

Today 26 organizations representing thousands of creative professionals around the world, including news, entertainment, magazine, and book publishing companies and the academic publishing sector, released Global Principles on Artificial Intelligence (AI) ... Read More