Evan DeSimone

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Anthropic to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Book Piracy Class Action Lawsuit Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle claims that it illegally downloaded a massive trove of pirated books to train its language models.

“The settlement amounts to about $3,000 per book and is believed to be the largest ever recovery in a U.S. copyright case” variety.com/2025/digital...

With public media under siege, High Plains Public Radio builds a blueprint to cover more rural news with fewer resources To expand regional coverage while keeping costs down, HPPR aims to build out a “contributors network” of part-time and volunteer community members coordinated by a lean central editorial team.

Also very interested in the various ways public media is experimenting with tactics to survive these lean times. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/with...

FeedMe is staffing up. I'm very interested in how these essentially solo media ventures are going to scale their teams in the next few years. www.status.news/p/john-malon...

New York Times teams up with Economist in play for worldwide readers The US paper quietly rolled out the bundled subscription with the UK-based finance and business-focused publication earlier this year.

Interesting partnership. I'd have to assume most Economist readers are also Times readers, not sure that cuts equally in the other direction... www.semafor.com/article/09/0...

It's genuinely fascinating how long this has gone on. www.businessinsider.com/group-black-...

Google stock jumps 8% after search giant avoids worst-case penalties in antitrust case The ruling comes nearly a year after a U.S. judge ruled that Google holds an illegal monopoly in its core market of internet search.

To designate Google as a monopoly, but impose no actual remedies, makes this whole trial seem like a huge waste of time and taxpayer money. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/g...

Vogue Names Chloe Malle as Its New Editor

Like the new Vaniry Fair the vision here seems to be smaller. Less print, more direct, and Anna still steering the ship at a high level. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...

Lawyer Alan Dershowitz loses appeal in CNN defamation case | CNN Business Retired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz lost his bid on Friday to overturn a ruling that dismissed his defamation lawsuit against CNN over the news channel’s coverage of remarks he made during P...

After losing an appeal against CNN, Alan Dershowitz plans to ask the Supreme Court to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, the 1964 case that protects journalists and others from weaponized lawsuits.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/b...

Many such cases. www.thecut.com/article/aaro...

Kari Lake lays off more than 500 staff at Voice of America parent agency Amid a contentious court battle, the Trump administration official sent long-awaited termination notices to staffers who have been waiting on administrative leave for months.

Kari Lake, the Trump administration official tasked with dismantling the Voice of America, sent termination notices to more than 500 employees at the broadcaster and its parent agency Friday night.

A New Twist in the U.K. Phone-Hacking Scandal Was Will Lewis—now publisher of The Washington Post—complicit in covering up the crimes that brought down an infamous British tabloid?

Nick Davies - who broke UK tabloid hacking scandal wide open - puts Wash Post's Will Lewis once more under a spotlight

He asks: was Lewis involved in cover up for Murdoch & executives rather than cleaning up? via Air Mail

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YouTube TV Inks Deal With Pro-Trump Outlet OAN as Contract for Fox News Is Set to Expire YouTube inked a deal to launch Herring Networks' One America News (OAN) on YouTube TV in the fourth quarter of 2025. The news comes just hours before YouTube TV's current agreement with Fox Corp. to c...

It's a long list, but using OAN to create leverage in a carriage fight with Fox might be the most cynically irresponsible thing YouTube has ever done. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Comcast, Amazon Expand Streaming Distribution Agreements The companies said that customers will be able to access subscriptions to NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming app on the Prime Video platform and Fire TV, while Prime Video content will be available on N...

"Customers will be able to access subscriptions to NBCUniversal’s Peacock on the Prime Video and Fire TV, while Prime Video content will be available on Xfinity X1 devices" www.wsj.com/business/med...

Trump administration moves to tighten duration of visas for students and media The Trump administration aims to tighten the duration of visas for students, cultural exchange visitors and members of the media, according to a proposed government regulation issued on Wednesday, part of a broader crackdown on legal immigration.

Limiting access from foreign journalists is the next logical step once you've brought the domestic media to heel. www.reuters.com/business/med...

I’m less concerned that some dark money Dems are paying influencers (about time) than I am about the fact that I’ve never heard of most of these people.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution to Quit Print Cold Turkey The publication says the time is right to pour all of its resources into its online news operation and get its journalism “in front of the most people.”

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has announced it will stop publishing a print newspaper at the end of the year, and divert all of its resources into its digital news operation. The company has published in print since 1868

Jimmy Lai’s Freedom May Now Hinge on Beijing and Trump

There’s no way this HK kangaroo court will free Jimmy Lai, but other governments should apply pressure. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/w...

Public Broadcast Cuts Hit Rural Areas, Revealing a Political Shift

"As senators gathered at the Capitol last month to debate legislation to allow President Trump to zero out funding for public broadcasting, a siren and public service message rang out more than 4,000 miles away in this small town in the Aleutian Islands." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

Perplexity Is Launching a New Revenue-Share Model for Publishers Media companies will get paid out of a $42.5 million pool when their articles are used by Perplexity’s web browser.

None of these AI pay schemes really point toward longterm sustainability for publishers. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Recession indicator. www.businessinsider.com/mrbeast-beas...

Noisy Creek, owner of alt-weeklies in Seattle and Portland, acquires the Chicago Reader After years of financial struggles and narrowly avoiding closure at the start of 2025, the Chicago Reader is getting another lifeline. On Tuesday, the nonprofit alt-weekly known for covering arts and...

"Noisy Creek appears to have helped stabilize its acquired publications. The Stranger and the Mercury both resumed publishing print editions this past April, five years after they’d halted issues due to pandemic-induced advertising revenue loss." www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/nois...

The Marshall Project Names Jennifer Peter New Editor-in-Chief Peter, of The Boston Globe, will lead the national criminal justice outlet’s news operations.

"Peter will assume editorial leadership of a news team of more than 60." www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/26/j...

Time promotes Alex Altman, previously deputy Washington bureau chief and executive features editor, to executive editor (Ray Schultz/MediaPost)

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“This offer was necessarily contingent on the FCC approving the deal and does not appear to present any legitimate value to the public, only to President Trump” thehill.com/homenews/med...

Lord of the Rings: Casey Wasserman’s Olympic Odyssey Can the hard-driving Hollywood scion navigate political land mines, relentless fundraising and a showboating president to deliver Games glory to L.A.?

You've got to feel some sympathy. Lobbying for years to win the Olympics only to have to deliver them with the country in this condition. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Exclusive | The Onion Brought Back Its Print Edition. The Gamble Is Paying Off. Print editions appeal to nostalgic readers and stand out in a crowded digital-media landscape, making them an attractive strategic play.

Certain publications are going to be able to sell print the way record labels sell vinyl. Not for everyone, for some. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.

This is going to keep happening. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

Protect BBC’s independence in case of Farage government, ex-news head urges James Harding says it is ‘recklessly complacent’ to assume Trump-style attacks on media could never happen in UK

At least the world is learning from our errors. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

🔎 Joanna Coles’ Hot Mic; MS NOW $20M Spend; Daily News' Alden Hunt Hamish on KPop Demon Hunters; Myron Rushetzky Tribute

MSNBC is proposing to spend $20 million on it's widely mocked rebrand to MSNOW www.breakermedia.com/p/joanna-col...