SimilarWeb “found that the number of news searches on the web that result in no click-throughs to news websites has grown from 56% to nearly 69% as of May 2025.” Meanwhile, “news-related prompts in ChatGPT grew by 212% from January 2024 through May 2025.”

A big new report says “digital creators across all platforms should be treated similarly to those in the more traditional world of TV and film production.” The report “will be discussed with YouTube bosses in [the U.S.] later this month.”

—WGA East, the union that represents writers at 60 Minutes and CBS News, on Paramount's $16 million settlement with Trump (Variety / Brian Steinberg)

“The sale leaves G/O Media with only one remaining property, Black culture site The Root, marking the near-complete unraveling of its once broad portfolio.”

“On Monday, US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem responded to CNN’s coverage of ICEBlock in a post on X, calling it an ‘obstruction of justice.’ Following this comment, ICEBlock grew in popularity overnight, bringing it to the top of the App Store on Tuesday before dropping to the third spot at the time of writing.”

—Aboubakr Jamaï, a journalist and the dean of the Donna Dillon Manning School of Global Affairs in Madrid, Spain (Columbia Journalism Review / Aida Alami)

Since we wrote about Jane Ferguson’s Noosphere in March, she’s added Chuck Todd, among others, to the platform.

“Mora didn’t realize the impact that receiving local information could have on a disconnected community like his until he physically posted one of his reports on a wall in the city. The story recounted the case of ‘Carina’, a colleague from Táchira who was forced to emigrate after receiving threats for working on the border. The article moved the neighbors who stopped to read it. Many confessed to not knowing such situations were happening so close to them, the journalist said.”

The amount Paramount will pay Trump to settle the 60 Minutes lawsuit; “the deal is the clearest sign yet that Mr. Trump’s ability to intimidate major American institutions extends to the media industry.” (The New York Times / Benjamin Mullin, Michael M. Grynbaum, Lauren Hirsch, and David Enrich)

“This is an app that is publicly available to any iPhone user who wants to download it,” CNN said in a statement. “There is nothing illegal about reporting the existence of this or any other app, nor does such reporting constitute promotion or other endorsement of the app by CNN.”

“Delivered on the eve of Channel 4’s airing of the documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, which the BBC commissioned but shelved as it said it ‘risked creating a perception of partiality’, the letter alleges the decision to drop the film ‘demonstrates, once again, that the BBC is not reporting ‘without fear or favour’ when it comes to Israel.’”

The union will represent “approximately 10” workers at the fact-checking organization. They write that “Snopes is unionizing because fact-checkers deserve transparency, too.”