Mather Report - David Clinch

Happy Friday and welcome to our curated look at the top #MediaRevenue ?stories of the week.

URGENT!!!!

We are working on a new set of protocols for news organizations and media technology companies to frame how they use technology, including AI, in ways that support journalism, but never replace it.

We are also developing frameworks to track the impact of local journalism, and to block bots from scraping original journalism into AI and LLM models, UNLESS they are properly licensed to do so.

If you want to know more about these two initiatives, contact me soon.

I encourage you to watch the video interview below with John Palfrey from the MacArthur Foundation with great detail about the "Press Forward" initiative.

If you see articles about?#MediaRevenue ,?AI in newsrooms, or the impact of local journalism, please let me know so I can include them in this roundup.

Here is this week's curated selection of?#MediaRevenue ?news:

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"When the Associated Press was negotiating an agreement to license its content to generative-AI company OpenAI, the newswire giant had a hesitation: What if another publisher comes along and strikes a more lucrative deal? The AP built in a first-mover safeguard, often referred to as a “most favored nation” clause, that gives it the right to reset the terms if another company gets a better deal from OpenAI..."

"News Corp Australia is producing 3,000 articles a week using generative artificial intelligence, executive chair Michael Miller has revealed."

"Agence France-Presse (AFP) said on Wednesday it filed a lawsuit in Paris against Elon Musk's X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, accusing it of failing to discuss potential payment for the distribution of the news agency's content."

"A new, completely AI-driven website called the?LocalLens?wants to be a kind of metal detector for local news — claiming to surface stories that might otherwise remain buried."

"Gannett?announced?Thursday that for the second quarter in a row, it was raising its full year outlook for profit, cash flow and adjusted EBITDA"

"Haunted by a sense that the news is relentlessly toxic, once-loyal readers and viewers have been gradually ebbing away, posing a persistent threat to the news business."

"Marty Baron calls on journalists to stop the nostalgia and doom-and-gloom and to focus on solving problems and making tough choices"

"KQED's Alexis Madrigal interviews John Palfrey, president of the MacArthur Foundation, one of the most influential funders of media and journalism. Press Forward is a new initiative aimed at stimulating large-scale philanthropic support for journalism"

"Wendy McCaw, the owner of the Santa Barbara News-Press, ceased its publication in July after years of controversy"

"The Oregonian/OregonLive will discontinue printing a newspaper on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, bringing an end to 142 years of daily print publication early next year."

"After the death of Medford's Mail Tribune, new publication looks to keep the news alive"

"A new report from?Enders Analysis?has argued “all is not lost” for?local news publishers, despite a punishing economic environment. Citing the “mind-boggling” scale of local media traffic in the UK, the report’s authors claimed that there is a path to sustainable?revenue models, but that it will require a “transformation” from “its manufacturing past… to its digital service era”."

"Organic revenue in the Reuters News division was up 1% in the quarter, driven by a lower contractual year-over-year price increase in the company’s news agreement with LSEG, slower events growth and lower digital revenues."