Overview
- The Asociación de Entidades Periodísticas Argentinas held its 64th General Assembly in San Miguel de Tucumán, starting Wednesday, with La Gaceta as host and a program centered on artificial intelligence, media sustainability and press freedom.
- ADEPA announced it has joined SPUR, a multinational effort to build technical standards and legal frameworks that audit how AI models access and repurpose publisher content and to pursue compensation or litigation when appropriate.
- Leaders warned that thousands of automated bots visit news sites and that those visits, which they say often feed AI models, can account for a large share of publishers’ web traffic and are currently uncompensated.
- The three-day meeting features trainings on digital strategy and newsroom innovation, the release of ADEPA’s semiannual freedom-of-expression report, partial board elections for 2026–2027, and industry investment announcements such as new studios and a news portal.
- ADEPA framed the SPUR accession as a practical next step that could prompt standardized payments, new commercial deals, or court cases and pointed to recent Argentine rulings it sees as favorable precedents for protecting reporting rights.