Yesterday, the New York Times and other publishers filed their response to the DOJ’s Statement of Interest (SOI) in support of Microsoft and OpenAI, in which the administration urged the judge to hold that copying any content to train AI models is “fair use.”
Last night, the News/Media Alliance honored three champions of a free and sustainable press at its 2026 Support Journalism Awards & Chairman’s Dinner, held at the Washington Marriott Georgetown.
News publications all across California will run a full page ad declaring that the journalism industry is unified in support of AB-2222, the Community NEWS Act, a measure that would create refundable employment tax credits for qualifying local news organizations that hire and retain journalists across the state.
Judge Leonie Brinkema announced a remedies ruling requiring Google to change its ad-tech business practices, while not forcing it to sell its AdX advertising exchange, following an earlier ruling that Google acted illegally to acquire and maintain monopoly power in online advertising.
The California legislature just passed a first-of-its-kind bill to preserve local journalism by creating refundable employment tax credits for qualifying local news organizations regardless of size, speech, and structure that hire and retain journalists across the state.
Representative Laurel Lee and Representative Valerie Foushee introduced the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act, a bipartisan piece of transparency legislation that would require AI stealth crawlers to disclose their identity and purpose.
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.
The News/Media Alliance (NMA) has elected Debi Chirichella, President of Hearst Magazines, as its Board of Directors chair.
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.”
Recent reporting by the Telegraph revealed that in its submission to the United Kingdom Competition and Markets Authority, Google called news publishers “free riders.”
