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Media stories: January - March 2026
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Wikipedia bans use of AI to ‘generate or rewrite’ articles — 31 March 2026 (LINK)
Best media analysis tools for data-driven PR campaigns in 2026 — 27 March 2026 (LINK)
'Trump Is Winning': FCC Chair boasts he's remaking the media by pushing out left-leaning figures — 27 March 2026 (LINK)
Former North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson admits 'I lied' about CNN story during the final months of his 2024 gubernatorial campaign, uncovering his extensive history of posting inflammatory and racist comments on a pornography website. — 19 March 2026 (LINK)
— Robinson initially denied the report and sued CNN for $50 million that fall as he marched on with his gubernatorial campaign. Robinson eventually lost to current Democratic Gov. Josh Stein by more than 14 points. He says he lied about the CNN report to protect those around him, including President Donald Trump, because it was "the most expedient thing to do. I won't say that I completely lied, some of the things about the whole story. Some of it — there's some truth to it," Robinson said in a podcast.
US judge orders Trump administration to reopen Voice of America — 18 March 2026 (LINK)
Swiss cinema admissions fall to lowest level in half century: 9.47 million admissions, 8% less than the previous year — 16 March 2026 (LINK)
BBC: Exhilarating winners, stunning eulogies and a party atmosphere: Six reasons why it was the best Oscars in years — 15 March 2026 (LINK)
Autumn Durald Arkapaw makes history as first woman cinematographer to win an Oscar — 15 March 2026 (LINK)
Len Deighton, author of bestselling spy thrillers, dead at 97 — 15 March 2026 (LINK)
— Deighton was food correspondent for The Observer newspaper in the 1960s and wrote several cookbooks aimed at men — a then-novel idea.
Is Jeff Bezos going to destroy the Washington Post? It sure looks like it, with Amazon contributing to the Trump inauguration and putting a ridiculous $40m behind a regrettable Melania Trump documentary that is leaving seats empty — 2 February 2026 (LINK)
— As a major round of newsroom layoffs is threatened — losses that would further weaken an already decimated staff — Bezos is doing what should be unthinkable.
Melania film earns $8m in US, strongest documentary debut in over a decade. However 'Melania' fell substantially short of turning a profit because it cost $40m to make and $35m to promote — 1 February 2026 (LINK)
— The Hollywood Reporter said that the Brett Ratner-directed documentary defied predictions that it would bomb "based on empty, or nearly empty, seat maps in cinemas across the country". The film, which follows Melania Trump as she prepared to re-enter the White House in early 2025, was beaten at the box office by two horror films: Iron Lung and Rachel McAdams's Send Help. But it managed to beat out action film Shelter. The Hollywood Reporter described it as an "expensive propaganda doc" and "a film that fawns so lavishly over its subject that you feel downright unpatriotic not gushing over it". In trailing credits, it added, the first lady's achievements are rolled "in such laudatory fashion that North Korea would blush".
'It's not too late to fix it': web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a 'battle for the soul' of the internet: "commercialization means the net has been 'optimised for nastiness', but collaboration and compassion can prevail" — 29 January 2026 (LINK)
4.6 billion people were affected by internet censorship in 2025 — with Asia continuing to lead the way: 81 new restrictions were introduced, says Surfshark — 21 January 2026 (LINK)
US Friends of Press Freedom: Rümeysa Öztürk has been facing deportation for 304 days solely for co-writing an op-ed the government didn't like, despite officials being fully aware that she has no known ties to antisemitism or terrorism. Meanwhile, journalist Ya'akub Vijandre remains locked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over social media posts about issues he reported on — 23 January 2026 (LINK)
Fox pretends Trump and his tariffs have revived manufacturing, but reports show the US has lost 72,000 manufacturing jobs since April — 22 January 2026 (LINK)
White House journalist Andrew Feinberg on reporting the Trump administration (LINK) 19 January 2026
— Those of us who covered Trump's first administration thought we knew what to expect. Boy, were we wrong.
Google search traffic to news sites plunges by one-third globally and 38% in the US (LINK) 18 January 2026
— Google responded by questioning the findings. Its own numbers do not match the sharp declines described in the report. Google also pointed out that the study left out traffic numbers from Google News. Social media platforms are also sending fewer readers to news websites. Since May 2023, traffic from Facebook has dropped 43% worldwide and 35% in America. Traffic from X fell even faster, declining 46% globally and 45% in the United States.
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