We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
June 25, 2026
American Public Radio will distribute the show weekly; it also distributes The New York Times’ The Daily. —LO
“The five-game series between the Knicks and the San Antonio Spurs generated ’15 billion views and counting on social media, the most ever for an NBA Finals and nearly triple the previous record set in 2025,’ according to the NBA.” —LO
“I am so dang happy to announce the Journalism Creators Startup Lab, a free program for early-stage independent news creators…The program is built for that early hard phase where a journalist either figures it out or gives in and starts looking at comms jobs. Think first year or two of going independent: fewer than 100,000 followers, dead serious about the work but not yet making a full-time living from it.” —
Project C / Liz Kelly Nelson
/ Jun 25“The Intercept is asking the court to compel the government to release documents requested through the Freedom of Information Act regarding increased surveillance and travel restrictions for protesters.” —
The Intercept / The Intercept Staff
/ Jun 25“As a dogged reporter with an entertainer’s verve, she built her own brand and merged it with one of the most famous institutions in journalism, The New York Times Company. It seemed to be a mutually beneficial arrangement. Until it wasn’t.” —LO
The New York Times / Katherine Rosman and Ken Belson
/ Jun 25News publishers that together own nearly 400 newspapers across the U.S. have sued OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their content without permission or compensation to build AI products like ChatGPT and Copilot. The publishers include the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, The New York Amsterdam News, Newspapers of New England, the Ogden Newspapers, and Straus Newspapers. —LO
Bloomberg Law / Mary Anne Pazanowski and Nino Paoli
/ Jun 25“The site’s editors formed a consensus this week to restrict the access of the co-founder, Larry Sanger. The reason given was not any of Mr. Sanger’s broadsides against Wikipedia, which he has long criticized over what he sees as a left-wing bias, but something procedural. He had been canvassing an outside audience to sway internal policy votes, a Wikipedia Foundation press officer said on Wednesday.” —
The New York Times / Adeel Hassan
/ Jun 25“The $1.4tn tech group has accelerated plans to switch to using large language models to review content and advertising across its platforms, according to four people familiar with the matter, which could help it save billions of dollars annually. Already, Meta has replaced about 50 percent of human review requests with LLMs this year, several of the people said.” —
Financial Times / Hannah Murphy and Cristina Criddle
/ Jun 25“After a three-week trial, a jury found eight of nine protesters guilty of ‘providing material support to terrorists,’ among other crimes. For the Sotos, this ‘material support’ included owning a ‘printing press’ used to print anarchist zines and being part of a leftist book club, the federal government argued. The couple had already left the scene by the time guns were drawn. All eight of the defendants sentenced so far have received unusually harsh sentences — 30 to 100 years — essentially life in prison.” —LO
The Guardian / Lex McMenamin
/ Jun 25June 24, 2026
Press Gazette / Charlotte Tobitt
/ Jun 24
