Class action

Musk's $44 billion Matryoshka is cracked open

#453: A jury found the billionaire misled Twitter investors in one of the largest securities verdicts in US history. He now faces billions in damages...

Mar 23 • Ricky Sutton

What the first hot war of the AI era tells me about journalism

#449: AI just proved it's the future of news delivery so here are nine ways publishers can build the commercial model to profit from it...

Mar 3 • Ricky Sutton

Publishers react to Zuck's mobster offer on AI

#445: "This is one of those existential tests that we’ll look back on in a few years and realise it was the day the game changed...”

Feb 23 • Ricky Sutton, Lisa Sygutek, Brent Jolly, Benoit Chartier, and Jason Kint

Maybe local news ain't dead, it just needs to be in your inbox

#389: Am I imagining it, or is there a buzz around hyper-local news again? Signs of a recovery seem to be emerging on Substack and Nextdoor...

Oct 5, 2025 • Ricky Sutton and Melbourne Snap (Sam Shedden)

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Tiny publisher gets nod for billion-dollar Google attack

$364: A tiny country newspaper in Australia will now lead the global class actions to claw back billions from Google’s ad monopoly. It just got real...

Aug 6, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

The lawyers shifting Google's billions back to publishers

Exclusive: The lawyers leading $20 billion in class actions for publishers against Google break their silence and explain how you can join...

Mar 25, 2025 • Ricky Sutton and Alan Chapell

Google's $100 million payoff begins in Canada

#286: Canadian publishers awoke to cheques in their bank accounts this morning - but it's unclear how long the handouts will last?

Mar 13, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

The warriors behind the $10 billion Google class action

As media leaders waffle and wither beneath Big Tech's yoke, these two publishers are throwing punches - and they have a lot to say...

Feb 3, 2025 • Ricky Sutton

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News due billions as Canada tells Google to sell ad tech

The monopolist is ordered to sell DFP and AdX after regulators found it conned news outlets 200 billion times a month...

Dec 2, 2024 • Ricky Sutton

Australia fires publisher damages claim at Google

Lawyers move on a class action to refund thousands of publishers who lost out as the search giant built a $10 billion programmatic stranglehold...

Nov 25, 2024 • Ricky Sutton

The fearless editor leading an $8 billion fight against Google

Exclusive: The action also targets Meta and is a forerunner for a multi-national suit worth hundreds of billions for publishers if successful...

Oct 27, 2024 • Ricky Sutton

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