Here are some of the best media stories our team has read so far this week: The Verge | Former FCC staffers agree: Brendan Carr needs to be stopped (5 min ...

Across sessions and conversations, the members-only 2026 DCN Summit revealed a clearer picture of an industry being reshaped by AI. That includes the ...

Data shows that publishers are already experiencing steep traffic losses: Business Insider is down 55% in organic search traffic since 2022, with Forbes ...

The relationship between audiences and media is shifting. New technologies—particularly agentic and search-based AI—are reshaping how people discover and ...

For many media organizations, the threat of “Google Zero” is increasingly becoming a reality. Between November 2024 and November 2025, traffic from Google Search to more than 2,500 sites in the ...

As AI systems increasingly access digital content, publishers are entering a new commercial reality. Content is being consumed in ways that often sit outside traditional channels such as search, ...

TIME has been an industry leader in pursuing content licensing deals with companies like OpenAI and Perplexity. These ensure that the publisher’s content is cited and attributed, as well as securing ...

The most valuable audiences behave like fans. They spend more time, engage more deeply, and are more willing to pay, making them critical to growth strategies across subscriptions, advertising, and ...

Engaging Gen Z is vital to the long-term stability of the news industry and to sustaining an informed public. A new Reuters Institute report distills research on people aged 18–24, tracking how their ...

Publishers have been under the gun for 25 years. The transition to the digital age forced media companies to adapt again and again to evolving consumer habits and changing technology. The trend has ...

Referral traffic has shifted over the last 12 months and media executives can’t afford to ignore the implications. AI Overviews intercept a growing share of user queries, resulting in zero-click ...