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09/09/2025

Members! Register Your Copyrights Now! Join Our Copyright Registration Tutorial Webinar.

Following our two highly popular webinars on copyright registration basics last year, please join the Alliance on September 25 at 12pm ET for a refresher webinar to discuss the benefits of copyright registration, registration options and the process, third-party vendors, and any questions you may have. *Registration is required and limited to News/Media Alliance members. Learn more:

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09/08/2025

Registration for the Alliance Support Journalism Awards Dinner and Fly-in closes in one week. Register and book your hotel today!

*This event is invitation-only and advanced registration is required

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09/05/2025

This afternoon, the European Commission announced that it will fine Google $3.45 billion for its anticompetitive actions in the advertising technology market, and gave the tech giant 60 days to return to the Commission with proposed remedies for its monopoly. This echoes an April decision in a case pursued by the Trump Department of Justice, in which a US federal judge found that Google had illegally maintained a monopoly in the advertising technology space.

In response to this announcement, Danielle Coffey, President and CEO of the News/Media Alliance, issued the following statement:

“Today’s decision falls short of an appropriate remedy for Google’s anticompetitive actions, but it is movement in the right direction and furthers the same goals that the Department of Justice and the Texas Attorney General have been pursuing in US courts. Namely, that Google must be held accountable for decades of abuse of its market power. Google’s monopolistic tactics in the advertising market have starved content creators of revenue, forced users to pay higher prices, and silenced too many Americans.

While we hoped the remedies would have gone further, we are pleased that the European Union is beginning to align with the Trump administration in standing up to Big Tech monopolies and securing an open and free internet for everyone.”

This afternoon, the European Commission announced a fine of $3.45 billion for Google for its anticompetitive actions in the advertising technology market

09/03/2025

Yesterday, US District Judge Amit Mehta filed the court’s remedies decision on Google’s antitrust search case. The ruling, which requires Google to share search data with its competitors but will not require the company to divest from Chrome or Android, also did not provide a remedy for publishers who are currently being forced to allow Google to use their content for its Generative AI products.

In response, Danielle Coffey Coffey, President and CEO of the News/Media Alliance, issued the following statement:

“We are disappointed in today’s decision. Judge Mehta’s ruling did not address the ability of Google to further cement its market power through its AI offerings. Google is forcing content creators to give away their content to be used in its AI offerings in order to remain in Google Search. This is a no-win scenario that will continue to harm publishers that invest in high-quality, journalistic and creative content. Giving publishers the ability to opt out of Google’s AI is critical to preserving an open internet free from anti-competitive behavior, and preserving a fair playing field for companies across a variety of industries. This ruling is not the end, but it is a missed opportunity.”

This afternoon, US District Judge Amit Mehta filed the court’s remedies decision on Google’s antitrust search case.

09/02/2025

Last week, the News/Media Alliance and New Jersey Press Association submitted a comment to the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs expressing concern that certain provisions of the Division’s proposed rulemaking far exceed the scope of the underlying New Jersey Data Privacy Act.

The comments note that certain provisions of the proposed rules impose burdensome and unproven compliance obligations, undermine standard newsgathering practices and would undermine the constitutionally protected freedom of the press.

The comments argue that the Division is constrained from exceeding the definitions set forth in the relevant legislation, and that the Division should not contradict legislative intent, nor should it contradict the emerging standards already established by other state privacy laws.

The Alliance and NJPA urge the Division to reject provisions that would interfere with a free and fair press for New Jersey.

On August 28, 2025, the News/Media Alliance and New Jersey Press Association submitted a comment to the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs expressing c ...

08/27/2025

There's just 3 weeks left to register for the 2025 Support Journalism Fly-in! Will we see you there, October 7-8?

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08/27/2025

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic and a group of authors who had alleged the company’s use of their work in training its AI systems infringed their copyrights announced Tuesday that they had reached a preliminary settlement on a lawsuit brought forward by the authors.

In response to this news, Danielle Coffey, President and CEO of the News/Media Alliance, issued the following statement:

“This settlement reflects a growing recognition that content creators must be compensated when their works are used by AI companies. Big Tech needs to work with us in a sustainable way because they need the content we create. By establishing a clear set of rules around content use and compensation, publishers, journalists, authors, and other creators can keep creating the kind of content that consumers and AI companies value.”

08/20/2025

"Though tech companies have been helping themselves with impunity to articles, books, recipes and endless other nuggets of information to build their models, many are simultaneously crafting licensing deals, particularly with established publishers." via Washington Post

The limited good news is that the fight has begun on multiple fronts.

08/19/2025

"And the people are interested in seeing tech being held accountable — and not putting the thumb on the scale, deciding what people see and what they don’t see." - Danielle Coffey via Editor & Publisher Magazine

In the past two decades, local journalism in the United States has seen its reporting ranks decimated — dropping from an average of 40 journalists per 100,000 residents in 2002 to just 8.2 today, according to the new “Local Journalist Index 2025.” While other nations have responded to similar ...

08/05/2025

Study Finds Advertising Drives 20% Of U.S. Economy And Supports Nearly One In Five American Jobs

Advertising enabled 29 million U.S. jobs, powered $10.4 trillion in spending last year.

08/04/2025

Check out this great The New York Times podcast with Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, where he talks about how his company is helping publishers fight back against AI scrapers

“Frankly, if they’re going to behave like hackers, then we’re going to behave like trolls right back to them,” said Matthew Prince, chief executive of Cloudflare.

08/04/2025

Join our team! We are hiring an Executive Director for our 501(c)3, the American Press Institute. The ED will be a passionate & inspirational advocate for API’s work to advance an innovative & sustainable news industry in a rapidly changing audience, business, cultural, & political landscape

Current Openings   About News/Media Alliance: The News/Media Alliance is a nonprofit organization representing more than 2,200 news and magazine media ...