Local news has suffered a long decline since the advent of the internet shifted the ads newspapers and other outlets relied ...

Data shows AI assistants recommend only 1% to 11% of locations, revealing a massive gap between Google rankings and AI visibility.

Gov. Gavin Newsom included no new funding for local journalism in his budget proposal last week, walking back an August 2024 deal with Google to commit $175 million over five years to help the ...

Local officials are facing mounting criticism over their handling of a Google data center project, with residents and ...

Noting how the “way people consume information evolves,” Google announced five updates to boost links in AI Mode and the Gemini app, as well as support the web. As the way people consume information ...

Traffic and links remain Google's core publisher strategy. Personal Context is still in internal testing. Google acknowledged publisher struggles directly. Google isn't ruling out new ways to work ...

For the past 25 years, there have been two primary ways to finance the growth of local news growth: private equity and foundation grant-making. The first, of course, has fed the consolidation of ...