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News sector emerges as growing US antitrust concern

By Ilana Kowarski and Flavia Fortes ( April 22, 2026, 22:40 GMT | Comment) -- US federal and state antitrust law enforcers have ramped up their policing of alleged threats to either quantity, quality or variety of competition within the rapidly shrinking and consolidating journalism sector over the past several years. American competition regulators scrutinizing the industry can now cite a favorable court ruling that recognized newsroom layoffs, reduced content output and story homogenization — highlighted in a preliminary injunction against Nexstar Media Group and Tegna Inc. — as legally cognizable antitrust harms.US federal and state antitrust law enforcers have ramped up their policing in recent years of alleged threats to either quantity, quality or variety of competition within the rapidly shrinking and consolidating journalism sector....

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