Companies are beginning to cancel institutional subscriptions to professional news, research and reports and to substitute internally curated, AI‑generated summaries and learning portals for employees. That reduces direct revenue to quality journalism, concentrates interpretation inside corporate systems, and shifts who controls the provenance and framing of information employees rely on.
— If scaled, this trend undermines the business model of niche and subscription journalism, centralizes knowledge production inside firms, and alters the upstream civic infrastructure that feeds public debate and expert oversight.
msmash
2026.01.15
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Microsoft’s reported November cancellations of many employee subscriptions (including Strategic News Service) and the internal shift to an 'AI‑powered learning experience' are concrete examples of this substitution.
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