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Missouri news groups sue Highway Patrol over crash records
The lawsuit alleges the Patrol began withholding names and other information in 2024 after decades of providing unredacted records.
USA Today files $250 million copyright lawsuit against OpenAI
The newspaper giant claims OpenAI's ChatGPT was trained on more than 100,000 local and national news articles without permission.
Sinclair joins Substack, launches “The National Press” newsletter
The initiative will involve at least three web shows and a daily e-mail newsletter featuring headlines from Sinclair's local TV newsrooms.
Variety owner Penske loses lawsuit against Google over lost search traffic
A judge ultimately determined that traffic was never promised as a trade-off for allowing AI robots to train on their content.
Publishers push for new law banning bot-based AI scraping
The proposed law gives publishers greater control of how and when robots access their materials, and allows the FTC and others to bring litigation against bad actors.
News outlets to sign court brief supporting CNN, MS Now, POLITICO lawsuit against Trump
Dozens of news organizations are expected to endorse a court filing that backs CNN, MS Now and Politico's lawsuit over their banishment from the White House.
FIRST ON THE DESK
CNN analyst Peter Bergen donates September 11 archive to Georgetown
The archive documents Bergen’s decades covering al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and the U.S. war on terror, including material from CNN’s 1997 interview with bin Laden.
Gloria Steinem, journalist who helped define modern feminism, dies at 92
The journalist and author helped bring the modern women's movement into mainstream American politics and media.
Feds sought records from relatives of New York Times reporters in leaks probe
The subpoenas are part of a leak investigation tied to Times reporting about security concerns involving President Donald Trump’s Qatari-donated Air Force One jet.
PRESS FREEDOM
Madison Square Garden sues Wired over clickbait article based on hacked customer data
A co-author of the story, Noah Shachtman, was previously accused of numerous ethical lapses related to his editing of news stories.
Penske Media acquires remaining Vox Media brands
The company already owns publications like Rolling Stone, Variety, Deadline Hollywood and Billboard.
New York lawmakers approve bill limiting AI crawling of news articles
The law would require artificial intelligence-powered scraping robots to identify themselves accurately when they attempt or actually access news articles online.