New York Times’ U-Turn on Amazon Stuns the Media Industry; Google's AI-Generated Videos Spark Concerns

Your Saturday press recap

Meet Julie Marcoux, the New Anchor at TVA News in Quebec
ICI Radio-Canada
🔗 https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/penelope/segments/rattrapage/2083883/rencontre-avec-julie-marcoux-nouvelle-cheffe-antenne-a-tva

Trump Wins First Round in Copyright Case
Substack – Graham Lovelace
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Trump wins first round in copyright chief's job battle | Creators' champion preps new bid to ensure AI transparency | Anthropic CEO urges debate on 'AI jobs bloodbath'

François Gagnon of RDS-TSN Inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame
La Presse
🔗 https://lp.ca/8bFuGe?sharing=true

Google Fights Breakup Attempt Ahead of Key U.S. Antitrust Ruling
La Presse
🔗 https://lp.ca/tnXqFe?sharing=true

Google's AI-Generated Videos Spark Concerns
CBC News
🔗 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/google-ai-videos-1.7545853

Journalists Are Using AI — They Should Be Talking to Their Audience About It
Poynter
🔗 https://www.poynter.org/from-the-institute/2025/journalists-are-using-ai-they-should-be-talking-to-their-audience-about-it-microsoft-associated-press/

Paramount Makes Settlement Offer, Trump Rejects
Poynter
🔗 https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2025/paramount-makes-settlment-offer-trump-rejects/

YouTube Launches Side-by-Side Ads for Livestreams
Social Media Today
🔗 https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/youtube-launches-side-by-side-ads-livestreams/749376/

X Launches Beta Test of X Chat with Payments and Messaging Features
Social Media Today
🔗 https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-formerly-twitter-launches-beta-test-x-chat-messaging-update-payments/749380/

Artists Rediscovered After Death
La Presse
🔗 https://lp.ca/1NoLcl?sharing=true

Tribute to Canadian Producer Denise Robert This Weekend
La Presse
🔗 https://lp.ca/4RTF1R?sharing=true

Local Films and Series to Watch This Season in Canada
La Presse
🔗 https://lp.ca/vcd90f?sharing=true

Should Digital Citizenship Be Mandatory in Schools?
Le Devoir
🔗 https://www.ledevoir.com/societe/education/885646/citoyennete-numerique-devrait-elle-etre-devenir-contenu-obligatoire-ecole

Silicon Valley’s Quest to Build an AI Empire
The New York Times
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/silicon-valley-ai-empire.html

Official Announcement from Quebec National Assembly : The Political Books of 2025
Assemblée nationale du Québec
🔗 https://www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/actualites-salle-presse/communiques/CommuniquePresse-7397.html

Anne-Sophie Lapix Surprises France 2 Viewers with Musical Newscast in France
HuffPost France
🔗 https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/medias/video/anne-sophie-lapix-regale-les-telespectateurs-de-france-2-avec-un-jt-de-20h-en-chanson_250682.html

Debating France’s Bolloré: Journalistic Conversations in a Podcast
Pieuvre.ca
🔗 https://www.pieuvre.ca/2025/05/29/medias-podcast-entretiens-journalistiques-115-deborder-bollore/

Meta’s AI Ambitions Put GDPR to the Test
Usine Digitale
🔗 https://www.usine-digitale.fr/article/quand-les-ambitions-de-meta-dans-l-ia-generative-mettent-le-rgpd-a-rude-epreuve.N2232716

YouTube Will Let Viewers Use Google Lens to Search Shorts
TechCrunch
🔗 https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/youtube-will-soon-let-viewers-use-google-lens-to-search-what-they-see-while-watching-shorts/

Community Notes Goes Down as New App-Fooling Tool Emerges
Indicator
🔗 https://indicator.media/p/x-community-notes-goes-down-running-apps-osint-scams-mmunity-notes-goes-down- discord

New York Times’ U-Turn on Amazon Stuns the Media Industry
Presse-Citron
🔗 https://www.presse-citron.net/ia-ce-revirement-du-new-york-times-face-a-amazon-est-un-choc-dans-le-monde-des-medias/

Brands Target Niche Fan Communities Amid Sports Marketing Boom
Digiday
🔗 https://digiday.com/marketing/amid-sports-marketings-gold-rush-some-brands-are-targeting-niche-fan-communities/

The Rise of AI-Generated Content in Journalism
Trends Research
🔗 https://trendsresearch.org/insight/ai-generated-content-in-journalism-the-rise-of-automated-reporting/

Arizona Supreme Court Turns to AI-Generated 'Reporters'
NBC News
🔗 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/arizona-supreme-court-turns-ai-generated-reporters-deliver-news-rcna209828

Google AI Mode Undermines Original Journalism
Press Gazette
🔗 https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/how-google-ai-mode-is-undermining-original-journalism/

“Fingers? Seriously?” — Bizarre Metaphors in Beltway Media
Columbia Journalism Review
🔗 https://www.cjr.org/laurels-and-darts/shake-quake-metaphor-beltway-hegseth-defense-iphone-chinese-hands.php

The Four Deadly Sins Journalism Shares with Therapy
Medium – Tanmoy Goswami
🔗 https://toymango.medium.com/journalism-committed-these-4-deadly-sins-that-therapy-is-repeating-a42a2316fdde

How to Stand Your Ground in Three Simple Steps
Substack – Margaret Sullivan
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How to stand your ground, in three (not so easy) steps

Julie: An Influencer Caught in the Social Media Spiral
Le Monde – M Le Mag
🔗 https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2025/05/30/l-histoire-de-julie-une-influenceuse-happee-par-la-spirale-infernale-des-reseaux-sociaux_6609252_4500055.html

Why Some Towns Lose Local News and Others Don’t
The Conversation
🔗 https://theconversation.com/why-some-towns-lose-local-news-and-others-dont-252155

‘TACO’ and Tariffs: Trump Lashes Out at Reporter
The New York Times
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/us/politics/trump-taco-trade-question.html

Project Push Archives Global News Alerts
Nieman Lab
🔗 https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/project-push-creates-an-archive-of-news-alerts-from-around-the-world/

Truth at Risk: Indian Fact-Checkers Debunk False Claims
Reuters Institute
🔗 https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/truth-casualty-how-indian-fact-checkers-debunked-false-claims-during-india-pakistan-crisis