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Eight in ten of world’s biggest news websites now block AI training bots

Eight in ten of world’s biggest news websites now block AI training bots

Published by Sam Flores

Picture: Shutterstock/Ketmut Almost eight in ten of the biggest news websites in the UK and US are now blocking AI training bots. This week in London publishers were told it is “never too late” to begin blocking the bots due to the frequency with which new crawling needs to take place via retrieval-augmented generation so that AI chatbot responses remain current. Some 79% of almost 100 top news websites in the UK and US are blocking at least one crawler used for AI training out of OpenAI’s GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Anthropic-ai, CCBot, Applebot-Extended and Google-Extended. Meanwhile 71% are blocking AI bots from crawling their sites for retrieval or live searches. Those bots are: ChatGPT-User, Claude-Web, Perplexity-User and OAI-SearchBot. The latest analysis of who was blocking what was carried out by digital PR platform Buzzstream, looking at a combined and deduplicated list of the 50 biggest news websites in each of the UK and US, and shared with Press Gazette. Among the 50 biggest, the publishers that had blocked all the AI bots included in the analysis …

Top news apps in UK: Exclusive ranking for 2026

Top news apps in UK: Exclusive ranking for 2026

Published by Sam Flores

The top apps for engagement retention: The Times and The Sunday Times, Daily Mail and Mail+ The Daily Mail and The Times have the most engaged app users of any newsbrand in the UK, according to data from Ipsos iris. But in terms of overall popularity, BBC News remains the biggest app in the UK with 15 million users followed by Apple News on 14 million. Google’s smartphone-based aggregation tool Discover may well be the most popular news app in the UK but does not appear in the Ipsos ranking because it is part of the suite of Google products embedded in most mobile devices (not a separate app). Samsung News, the default news app on Samsung devices since April 2025, does not yet appear in Ipsos Iris data. Daily Mail’s newspaper editions app, Mail+, recorded the most average minutes spent per person (758 minutes) followed by The Times and Sunday Times (539 minutes). The Times and The Sunday Times app saw a redesign and relaunch in April 2025. Speaking to Press Gazette in December, …

Top 50 updated each month

Top 50 updated each month

Published by Sam Flores

Homepages of Men’s Journal (top) and The Sun on 13 January 2026. Men’s lifestyle magazine Men’s Journal recorded the highest year-on-year and month-on-month growth among the top 50 news websites in the US in December. Visits to the Arena Group site were up 184% year on year and 130% month on month to 19.5 million in December, according to the latest Similarweb data. Men’s Journal therefore rejoined Press Gazette’s top 50 ranking, having also featured with significant growth in May and June 2025. The site relaunched its quarterly print magazine in July 2025 after a two-year print hiatus. The US Sun followed on both growth metrics, up 52% year on year and 59% month on month to 34.9 million visits. Forbes recorded the third highest month-on-month increase in visits, up 15% to 59.3 million. This is despite it seeing the biggest decline year on year, down by almost half (49%). Among the top ten US news sites, only celebrity news site People saw year-on-year growth in December, up 5% to 151.9 million visits. Sign up …

Most popular websites for news in the world: Monthly top 50 listing

Most popular websites for news in the world: Monthly top 50 listing

Published by Sam Flores

An iPhone with the Substack app is held in front of bills of money in various currencies. Picture: Photo For Everything/Substack Newsletter platform Substack has recorded the highest year-on-year growth for six consecutive months across the 50 biggest English-language news websites in the world. In December, Substack continued to see the biggest growth year on year, up by almost half (48%) to 140.6 million visits according to the latest Similarweb data. It has held this lead since July 2025. [Read more: The Free Press goes from zero to $150m valuation in five years on Substack] The Hill followed for biggest year-on-year growth, up 39% to 44.2 million visits, ahead of Politico, up 31% to 46.4 million visits. None of the top ten English-language newsbrands in the world saw year-on-year growth. Daily Mail saw the biggest drop year on year among the top ten, down 23% to 212.8 million visits, alongside The Times of India (down 23% to 282.9 million visits). This was followed by Fox News, down 19% to 226.4 million. However eight of the …

Marjorie Taylor Greene Divulges Trump’s Stunning Response To Her Epstein Threat

Marjorie Taylor Greene Divulges Trump’s Stunning Response To Her Epstein Threat

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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (Republican, Georgia) has revealed what President Donald Trump told her after she threatened to identify some of those with ties to late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Following a closed-door meeting with a number of survivors of Epstein’s sex abuse, she declared at a September press conference that – with the permission of the survivors – she would take to the House floor and “say every damn name” of men who abused them alongside the disgraced financier. Trump later called Greene “to voice his displeasure,” according to a profile of Greene published by The New York Times on Monday, and his yelling over speakerphone was audible to all in her office. After she reportedly expressed her “perplexity over his intransigence,” Trump responded, “My friends will get hurt.” The new reporting from the Times comes a week before Greene, once a fierce MAGA advocate, is set to resign from Congress after her big break from Trump. The phone call between Greene and Trump was their “last conversation,” per the Times. “Our side …

The projects publishers are most proud of in 2025

The projects publishers are most proud of in 2025

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L-R top to bottom: New York Times TVP of global advertising Tom Armstrong, Newsweek editor-in-chief Jennifer Cunningham, The Atlantic chief executive Nicholas Thompson, Forbes chief innovation officer Nina Gould, Telegraph deputy editor Catherine Bentley-Gouldstone, Politico senior executive editor for North America Alex Burns, Bloomberg head of media editorial David Merritt, Metro deputy editor Claie Wilson, and Sun director of video Jon Lloyd. 2025 has been tough for many media companies but there has still been plenty of innovation and investment in new projects going on. Press Gazette thought these bright spots were worth celebrating. We asked publishers in the UK and US to shout about one project, either editorial or commercial, that worked well for them this year. The responses were broad, demonstrating the diversity of approaches being taken to thrive in 2025 – although there were a few recurring themes. Scroll down or click through to see the full responses from each of our participants: Associated Press – AP Intelligence Bloomberg – Bloomberg Weekend Business Insider – ’80 over 80′ series Daily Mail – …

OpenAI ordered to share 20m ChatGPT logs with news publishers

OpenAI ordered to share 20m ChatGPT logs with news publishers

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ChatGPT. Picture: Shutterstock A US judge has ordered OpenAI to share 20 million anonymised ChatGPT user logs with news publishers who are suing for breach of their copyright. OpenAI is currently removing anything that can identify its users from 20 million output logs (out of the tens of billions it has stored in total) and has been ordered to hand these over to the news publishers within seven days of completing that process. Lawyers for the news publishers will then be able to analyse the 20 million conversations looking for responses that reproduce their copyrighted work in whole or part. The New York Times was the first major news publisher to sue OpenAI (and its partner Microsoft) over the alleged crawling of millions of its articles to train ChatGPT, which it has argued can repeat large amounts of that material almost verbatim. Since then several other publisher lawsuits have been joined to the NYT case, including 17 publications owned or managed by Alden Global Capital subsidiaries MediaNews Group or Tribune Publishing such as The New …