The News Media Alliance, a trade group that represents newspapers, says that AI chatbots use news articles significantly more than generic content online.
It’s official: the News Media Alliance (NMA) will merge today with The Association of Magazine Media, still fondly known by its former acronym, “MPA,” or the Magazine Publishers Association. News businesses and magazine publishers have largely traveled similar but parallel paths since the advent of the internet. The new association will be called the News/Media Alliance.
Publisher complaints about Google have grown more pointed as the Justice Department investigates the search giant for possible anticompetitive practices. The News Media Alliance, which represents more than 2,000 news organizations in the U.S., last week published a white paper that provides more concrete examples of how Google allegedly interferes with the digital operations of publishers.
The News Media Alliance, National Association of Broadcasters, National Newspaper Association and America’s Newspapers ask the government to provide critical support to local news media in its next stimulus bill designed to provide relief to businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.
The newspaper industry is working with Facebook to launch a new project to help local newspapers beef up their digital subscription efforts. But that doesn’t mean they’ve made peace. In fact, the News Media Alliance — a newspaper trade group that’s working with Facebook on the subscription project — is simultaneously launching a political action committee to help reward members of Congress for elevating their goals, including an antitrust safe harbor to better compete against Facebook and Google for audience and ad dollars.
Exclusives
The News Media Alliance, which represents leading newspaper publishers, is seeking an anti-trust exemption from Congress that will allow publishers to negotiate jointly with the digital giants on terms under which they can carry the publishers’ content. Today, the NMA said, “news organizations are limited with disaggregated negotiating power against a de facto duopoly that is vacuuming up all but an ever-decreasing segment of advertising revenue.”
The News Media Alliance calls on the public to subscribe to local newspapers, support journalists.
The News Media Alliance says the commission’s decision to retain its broadcast-newspaper ownership ban “makes no sense at all.”
