Luis Amorim September 05, 2025
Who's suing AI and who's signing: Brazilian newsbrand sues OpenAI and Japanese newspaper sues Perplexity
News AI deals revealed: Which publishers are suing and which are signing deal with the tech giants over generative AI.
www.pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/news-publisher-ai-deals-lawsuits-openai-google
Google not required to sell Chrome or Android, judge rules in antitrust case - live updates
But the company has been ordered to share data with others to help open up competition.
www.bbc.com/news/live/cg50dlj9gm4t
News companies evolve business models in post-traffic era
Business Insider, The Atlantic, and BuzzFeed are restructuring their revenue approaches.
www.inma.org/blogs/advertising-initiative/post.cfm/news-companies-evolve-business-models-in-post-traffic-era
Focus on local, not 'trending', news fuels record Newsquest digital growth
Newsquest CEO Henry Faure Walker discusses how the publishers has reached record digital subscriptions and page views.
www.pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/focus-on-local-not-trending-news-fuels-record-newsquest-digital-growth
Audience Engagement for Journalism
Elements of Audience Engagement is a mindset, an introduction, and a toolkit. It is grounded in the belief that in a digital information ecosystem, prioritising audiences, their needs and habits, is journalism’s most resilient foundation for growth and impact, enabling newsrooms not just to survive but to adapt with purpose.
www.audienceengagementforjournalism.com
NPG Digital: Why 80% of our homepage is now personalized | The Audiencers
How NPG Digital built a technology to personalize their homepage, leading to an increase in engagement, conversion and retention.
www.theaudiencers.com/why-80-of-our-homepage-is-now-personalized-and-how-thats-changing-everything
How The Wall Street Journal is strategizing for ‘Google zero’
Ed Hyatt, director of newsroom SEO at The Wall Street Journal, shared SEO strategies he's prioritizing for this search and AI era.
www.digiday.com/media/how-the-wall-street-journal-is-strategizing-for-google-zero
What Google’s Trial Docs Reveal About Clicks, Links and Other Ranking Signals - Marie Haynes
The DOJ vs Google trial has finally wrapped up. The closing document is full of interesting insight into how Google’s algorithms work.
www.mariehaynes.com/what-googles-trial-docs-reveal-about-clicks-links-and-other-ranking-signals
Google: Your Login Pages May Be Hurting Your SEO Performance
Google explains how generic login pages trigger duplicate indexing. Learn fixes using noindex, redirects, and paywall markup.
www.searchenginejournal.com/google-your-login-pages-may-be-hurting-your-seo-performance/555292
How The Economist and Financial Times manage personality-driven newsletters
Newsletters led by star writers are proving an effective tool for publishers to supercharge loyalty. But putting key journalists front-and-centre is not without its risks, as the FT's Sarah Ebner and The Economist's Andrew Palmer and Dominic Rech discussed at the Publisher Newsletter Summit.
www.voices.media/the-primacy-of-personality-led-newsletters-at-the-economist-and-financial-times
The Total Monetization Mandate
A new survey of 65 publishing executives shows that today’s chief revenue officers face a “total monetization” challenge—balancing ads, subscriptions, branded content, events, and more at a time when Google traffic and ad demand are falling.
www.research.therebooting.com/the-total-monetization-mandate
What your paywall says about your product (and why it matters) | The Audiencers
Most paywall strategies focus on optimisation. But the real question is: what system are you asking users to join? Heiko Scherer dives in.
www.theaudiencers.com/what-your-paywall-says-about-your-product-and-why-it-matters
Analysis: A deeper look at people’s willingness to pay for news
How does paying for news correlate with other factors?
www.baekdal.com/monetization/analysis-a-deeper-look-at-peoples-willingness-to-pay-for-news
United Daily News Group grows subscription conversions by more than 280%
Amelie Lin, director of data development at Taiwan’s United Daily News Group, explains the three core strategies that led to growing digital subscriptions.
www.inma.org/blogs/conference/post.cfm/united-daily-news-group-grows-subscription-conversions-by-more-than-280
New INMA report focuses on subscription strategies to build sustainable journalism
Written by Paulo Celso Pereira, executive editor of Brazil’s O Globo, “Beyond the Funnel: Advice For a New Subscription Strategy” looks at case studies from The New York Times, Financial Times, El País, Clarín, and United Daily News Group.
www.inma.org/blogs/main/post.cfm/new-inma-report-focuses-on-subscription-strategies-to-build-sustainable-journalism
Across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, newsrooms are experimenting with conversational AI
A new report from FT Strategies, “Taking AI from the back-end to the front page,” digs into AI adoption case studies at 16 major newsrooms across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. All of the publications participated in AI Launchpad, a program run by the Financial Times’ media consultancy …
www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/europe-middle-east-and-africa-newsrooms-are-experimenting-with-conversational-ai
The New York Times Is Sunsetting Its Audio App
The standalone product will shutter in October, as the publisher doubles down on audio in its flagship News app
www.adweek.com/media/new-york-times-audio-app-shuts-down/#new_tab
The Behavioral Data You Need To Improve Your Users' Search Journey
Behavioral data helps us understand what drives users to a search, where they carry it out, and what points of friction might be blocking conversion.
www.searchenginejournal.com/the-behavioral-data-you-need-to-improve-user-search-journeys/553560
