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Fighting for journalism and profitable news media
Print boosts revenue for Youtube's TLDR | Fired journalist sees robot reporter take over byline
Plus publishers urged to experiment with Google AI Overviews opt out
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Good morning from the team at Press Gazette on Thursday, 9 July.
🗞️ Youtube-based explainer newsbrand TLDR News is going from strength to strength with revenue up and headcount now increasing from 11 to 15 staff.
And the UK title’s biggest source of revenue will blow your mind.
It seems Gen Z news consumers do take the odd screen break and will read physical print editions (albeit, in this case, only on a quarterly basis).
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🤖 A journalist fired by ‘parasite SEO’ publisher Clickout Media has told us what it was like to work for and get fired by the outfit.
For Ben Touati it was the fulfilment of a lifelong dream to be paid to write about comic books for The Escapist.
But when he got made redundant he woke up to a nightmare when he found work was continuing to appear under his byline apparently created by AI.
News leaders speaking at the event grappled with the challenge of how to respond to the landmark ruling from the UK Competition and Markets Authority forcing Google to allow publishers to opt out of AI Overviews without harming their position in search.
The problem is Google is now making visibility on AI Overviews a key condition of continuing the lucrative annual payments it makes to many UK news publishers under its News Showcase scheme.
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🤏 News In Brief
The acquisition of Vox, New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network by James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems has now completed after receiving regulatory approval. Murdoch pledged to provide “the resources and partnership they need to do their best work yet”.
US politics newsbrand The Hill is launching a premium subscription service called The Hill Insider. Paid subscribers get exclusive newsletters, content and live interactive sessions with journalists for $59.99 a year, or $99.99 to also access ad-free browsing and live events. (