“[Preston] Padden’s latest project comes freighted with irony: He hopes to persuade federal regulators to pull Fox Corp.’s licenses to operate its TV stations — the very ones he helped Murdoch maintain nearly 30 years ago.”

“When I think about the moment we’re in now,” Ms. Drummond said, “with this very real human toll that we’re feeling and seeing around climate change, with the development of generative A.I., with the sort of unfathomable wealth and power and scope of major technology companies and big tech and the people that leads them, it feels like another sort of inflection moment in technology, in society.”

“Google says deleting old pages to bamboozle Search is ‘not a thing!’ as CNET erases its history.”

“A group of the world’s biggest news media organizations called for revised regulations on the use of copyrighted material by makers of artificial intelligence technology, according to an open letter published on Wednesday. The note, signed by industry bodies like the News Media Alliance – which includes nearly 2,000 publications in the United States – and the European Publishers’ Council, batted for a framework enabling media companies to ‘collectively negotiate’ with AI model operators regarding the operators’ use of their intellectual property.”

“As part of the Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellowship’s mission to focus on local journalism, those three journalists – Megan Cardona at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Rose Monique Valera Henriquez at El Nuevo Herald and Michael Butler at the Miami Herald – decided to dedicate their innovation projects for the fellowship to to improving their newsrooms’ internal workings. Cardona’s efforts were to advance the work of a just-formed newsroom diversity committee. Henriquez and Butler separately worked on guides for future reporters new to their beats: One is a guide to being a reporter in Miami, the other focuses specifically on covering Cuban immigration.”

“The study, conducted by FehrAdvice & Partners AG on behalf of the SWISS MEDIA publishers’ association with oversight by leading academics, assessed the value of journalistic content on the Google search engine in Switzerland and its impact on user behavior and satisfaction, concluding that the market share of Google searches that use media content results in an estimated revenue of about $440 million per year. It suggests that if Google did not have a dominant monopoly position in web search and faced serious competition, fair compensation for the value that media content provides to Google search would amount to about 40% of total revenue, or approximately $176 million per year in Switzerland alone.”

“As fellow RJI fellow Ariel Zych described it when we all met last month, BRL is spearheading a ‘locally focused capacity surge’ — or a ‘capacity sprint’ — to deeply inform communities when it feels impossible to do so due to smaller staff sizes. And it can be done anywhere.”

Also check out our colleague Joshua Benton’s previous reporting about Forbes.

“There’s still an audience for print newspapers, even though that’s decreasing,” said Anna Brugmann, policy director for the nonprofit coalition Rebuild Local News. “To just cut off the runway by decreasing print for certain communities, that’s not smart.”

“It’s also important to recognize that Rhoda was one of the first modern-day publishers who believed that people would pay for content they considered valuable — you didn’t have to give it away, or undervalue it,” said Kimberly Kleman, a former editor of Consumer Reports.

“’Nigerian history is inaccessible online, and the greatest repository of that history is old newspapers,’ says Fu’ad Lawal, the founder of Archivi.ng. ‘The newspapers from our history are rotting away in libraries and private archives, and our mission is to stop the erasure and recapture all the history before we lose them for ever.’”