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In today’s email:
- Featured story: Judge orders White House to restore AP’s access
- In other news: Mississippi judge dismisses former governor’s lawsuit against news org
- Looking ahead: Publishers call on U.S. government to make AI pay for content
- Chart of the week: Majorities in both parties agree that Trump and U.S. news media have a bad relationship
🔥 Featured story
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore The Associated Press’ access as the media outlet’s lawsuit against the White House proceeds. The administration had barred the news agency from some spaces for its refusal to change its style guidance from the “Gulf of Mexico” to solely the “Gulf of America,” but the judge said that policy violates the First Amendment.
According to a recent Pew Research Center study, Americans are more likely to say the Trump administration has been too critical of the media (46%) than to say the administration has not been critical enough (22%), while 29% say the administration has been mostly fair. Democrats are much more likely than Republicans to say the Trump administration has been too critical of the news media (70% vs. 23%).
On the other hand, similar shares of Americans say the U.S. news media have been too critical of the Trump administration (39%) and that they have not been critical enough (36%). Another 22% say the media have been mostly fair toward Trump.
📌 In other news
- Mississippi judge dismisses former governor’s defamation lawsuit against nonprofit news organization
- Mediation set for Trump’s lawsuit against CBS News
- Judge rules against Newsmax in Dominion Voting Systems defamation suit
- Some Trump aides are refusing to respond to reporters’ questions if they have their pronouns in their email signatures
- Gershkovich, WSJ planning separate projects on the journalist’s imprisonment saga
- Newsletter writers say they are making more money on platforms other than Substack
- At university newsrooms, student journalists are resigning and requesting stories be taken down amid Trump administration crackdowns
- A look at student journalists covering local angles on national stories
📅 Looking ahead
Hundreds of publishers are calling on the U.S. government to make Big Tech pay for the content that it uses in AI technology. The ad campaign, organized by the News/Media Alliance trade association, comes after Google and OpenAI submitted proposals to ask the government for exemptions to allow their models to train on copyrighted materials.
A recent Center survey looked at experts’ opinions on AI, as well as those of Americans as a whole. Both the public and experts largely worry the U.S. government will not go far enough in regulating AI’s use in the U.S.: 58% of U.S. adults and 56% of experts surveyed say they’re more concerned about this than about the government going too far.
📊 Chart of the week
Our chart this week looks at Americans’ assessments of the relationship between the Trump administration and the U.S. news media. According to a survey conducted in late February and early March, most Americans (64%) believe the relationship between the Trump administration and the media is a bad one, while just 11% say it’s good. This view is widely held in both parties: 67% of Democrats and 61% of Republicans say the relationship is bad.
👋 That’s all for this week.
The Briefing is compiled by Pew Research Center staff, including Naomi Forman-Katz, Jacob Liedke, Christopher St. Aubin, Luxuan Wang and Emily Tomasik. It is edited by Michael Lipka and copy edited by Rebecca Leppert.
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