Press Releases

This week the New York State Senate and Assembly passed landmark legislation (A.11292/S.9934A) protecting news media from being bombarded by deceptive “stealth crawlers” from unscrupulous tech companies ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance (NMA) has elected Debi Chirichella, President of Hearst Magazines, as its Board of Directors chair ... Read More

The New York State Senate voted to pass the New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act, a bill that would require transparency for online scrapers, prohibiting “bad bots.” ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance, representing a collection of leading news publishers, submitted a letter to Common Crawl demanding the archive site stop its unauthorized scraping and storage of content, and establish additional protocols to prevent publisher content in its database from ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance and America's Newspapers announced a landmark collaboration that will bring together top leaders from across the news media industry for a combined event on September 27-30, 2026 in Washington, DC ... Read More

The SECURE Data Act, which would create a consistent and predictable national standard by drawing on consumer privacy language already adopted by nearly twenty state legislatures.  ... Read More

The New York Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act is a set of common-sense rules that require bots to identify themselves and their purpose, and a necessary step towards transparency and accountability for bad actors ... Read More

On March 30, 2026, the News/Media Alliance (NMA), Association of American Publishers (AAP),  International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (STM), and Authors Guild (AG) filed an amicus brief supporting the plaintiffs in Concord Music Group v. Anthropic ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance has partnered with Bria to let NMA members opt into an AI licensing agreement that would see them compensated for the use of their content in AI systems ... Read More

The White House just released its National AI Legislative Framework, which outlines its preferred path forward for Congress to legislate on the growing artificial intelligence industry ... Read More

The House Energy & Commerce Committee announced plans to advance federal legislation to protect children from online harms and uphold children’s data privacy, including a package called the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act ... Read More

The News/Media Alliance and America’s Newspapers announced the launch of a new partnership designed to strengthen collaboration across the news publishing industry and provide additional benefits to their members ... Read More