“I think NPR needed and continues to need to promote itself. It’s such a valuable resource, and still a lot of people don’t know about it. Young people, particularly, will say they get their news from TikTok or Facebook. I think NPR would do well to promote itself there: Say, ‘Here’s the news from professional journalists.'”

“Because we’re so focused on making this a profitable endeavour, once we went through our period of rapid expansion last year, it was really about enabling the team to settle and start to increase our average page views per article and build from there.”

“The filing alleges that Anthropic, the Amazon-backed OpenAI competitor behind the chatbot Claude, ‘violated the Copyright Act by doing Napster-style downloading of millions of works.’ It alleges that the company downloaded as many as seven million copies of books from libraries of pirated works.”

“The News/Media Alliance, a trade association behind major news publishers, announced that it has ‘successfully secured’ the removal of 12ft.io, a website that helped users bypass paywalls online.”

“KQED announced Tuesday it’s laying off 45 people and losing 12 more who took voluntary departure offers … It’s the third round of layoffs in five years for one of the most-listened-to public radio stations in the country and comes as federal funding for public media is under threat.”

“To answer one possible next question, I’m not sure what’s next save taking some time off. If you want, you can enter your email at pbump.net and I’ll let you know when I figure it out!”

“The Substack app now has millions of users that draw in new creators and subscribers, said Chris Best, the chief executive of Substack, and Hamish McKenzie, its co-founder. They also said in an interview that Substack was planning to get deeper into the advertising business, which it previously criticized. The sharp increase in Substack’s valuation — nearly 70 percent higher than its 2021 valuation of $650 million — is a validation of that strategy from Substack’s investors.”

“Once the House passes the bill, as expected, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s budget will be zeroed out for the first time since 1967, back when television stations still broadcast in black and white. It is a long-sought victory for President Trump, who has harshly accused PBS and NPR newscasts of being ‘biased,’ and a long-dreaded disruption for local stations that bank on taxpayer support.”