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Adapt or get left behind: Re-evaluating the role of intermediaries in business

Disinformation has replaced disintermediation as the word of the day, and many consumers aren’t happy. People are starting to miss being able to reliably get products and information that have been vetted and provided by an intermediary. This leads to an important question: Is the pendulum about to swing the other way?

Searching for search traffic

Over the past few months, news organizations have grappled with changes at Google that have led to a dramatic drop in organic search traffic. Publishers have been forced to navigate what appears to be seismic shifts in how Google doles out traffic, with the integration of artificial intelligence (which remains unintelligent and error-prone) causing panic attacks across the industry.

Serving immigrant communities with Chinese-language news

One of Jin Ding's first actions as CEO of Initium was moving its headquarters from Hong Kong — where it had been since it was founded nine years ago — to Singapore. Despite the move, Initium still reports on Hong Kong and mainland China with a network of trusted freelancers. This Chinese-language digital news site also is seeking to expand its reach and serve the growing number of Millennial and GenZ Chinese who have made their way to the U.S. over the past decade.

IRE aims for inclusivity with affordable membership and conference rate

Investigative Reporters and Editors recently announced it was creating a tiered fee structure for membership and conferences to lower the financial barrier to journalists who may otherwise be unable to afford to become members and take training sessions with the organization.

Digital Democracy: Marrying AI with a database project makes California government meetings and activities accessible to all

CalMatters and tech-driven partners have created a centralized database that improves government transparency and the public's access to materials. Called Digital Democracy, the project launched in April using a combination of AI, publicly available databases and some real-person backups. While available to anyone, the searchable product is a news reporter's dream tool.
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Donald Trump spent Thursday in Michigan raving about bacon, windmills, Al Capone, trans boxers, nuclear war and, of course, his crowd size. Weird! Kamala Harris and Tim Walz gave an interview on CNN that was … radically normal.

Can the homepage be resurrected as a news seeker’s destination? Should news organizations devote more resources to an outlet’s landing page? Or has the homepage outlived its usefulness, with news outlets better off pursuing more effective ways of attracting readers?
Nearly $1.8 billion in political advertising has been reserved to run nationally after Labor Day and through Election Day, according to AdImpact. It says Senate spending leads the way with $603 million in reservations, followed by the House with $458 million and the Presidential election with $401 million.
A new research study offers a roadmap for newsrooms that may want to analyze which voices routinely get quoted and ignored.
New research suggests Google AI Overviews are having a significant impact on the visibility of publishers within search results. Google is now delivering AI-written summaries at the top of its search results for all users in the U.S. and U.K.
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From California to Congress: NMA CEO Danielle Coffey breaks down the California-Google deal, the JCPA and recent antitrust wins.

In this episode of “E&P Reports,” Danielle Coffey, president & CEO of the News/Media Alliance (NMA), discussed recent developments in the media landscape, highlighted the implications of California’s public-private partnership with Google and the status of the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act (JCPA), and the recent Department of Justice (DOJ) ruling against Google for antitrust violations.

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In a last-minute, closed-door deal that surprised many, Google secured an agreement late Wednesday with California lawmakers to circumvent two legislative bills that would have required it and other tech companies to compensate local newsrooms in the state for using their content.
Born from the upheavals of the 1970s, when the government issued reporters with a slew of subpoenas to reveal their confidential sources, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP) has had the backs of journalists, editors, publishers and all news professionals. It continues to be a major advocate for protecting newsgathering rights and a proactive fighter against governmental attempts to erode and limit the press’ First Amendment freedoms.
Randall Lane, the chief content officer at Forbes Media and editor at Forbes magazine, penned a June 11, 2024 column — “Why Perplexity’s Cynical Theft Represents Everything That Could Go Wrong With AI” — citing a dispute with major AI developer, Perplexity. E&P followed up with Lane to better understand what happened and to seek his advice to other news media publishers grappling with the copyright-AI conflict.
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Gray Media’s WBRC in Birmingham, Alabama, is dropping the “Fox” from its branding while also introducing a new “6” icon.
Harry Hartman, publisher of the Gettysburg (Pennsylvania) Times, has been suspended according to George Sample, chairman of Sample News Group of which the Times is a part.
It’s a showdown between the world’s richest man and a Brazilian Supreme Court justice.
A Russian newspaper publisher was convicted by a court in Siberia on Friday and sentenced to eight years in prison after his paper reported on Russia’s attacks on civilians in Ukraine, local media and rights activists reported.
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iPublish Media Solutions, the leading provider of e-commerce advertising software, and CNPA Services Inc. are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to host a new and enhanced aggregated public notice website capublicnotice.com, a single depository for the state’s published legal notices.

In July 2024, The Villages Media Group, publishers of The Villages Daily Sun, the nation’s fastest growing daily newspaper, went live with SCS/Track to manage its substantial ad design workflow.
Community Impact, the largest news organization in Texas, is excited to announce a new partnership with Broadstreet Ads, headquartered in New Jersey. This collaboration is set to significantly enhance the digital reach and effectiveness of local advertisers.
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Hyperlocal news publisher and creator of Broadstreet Kenny Katzgrau teamed up with Montclair Local's Annette Batson to deliver a highly polished and tactical webinar on achieving same-day closes with digital advertisers.

Watch this "E&P Reports" Sponsored Webinar revealing how these three news publishers are taking advantage of the new, growing, impactful media of digital signage, to reach new readers and drive new revenue.
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