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.”
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 being used by AI companies.
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.
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.
