Welcome to your daily Press Gazette media briefing on Friday, 25 July.

Yesterday was a big moment for Reach as it announced plans for digital subscriptions to become part of its model - I believe this is the first time it has ever made this type of declaration, despite some previous experimentation in reader revenue.

We still don’t know exactly what type of paid content set-up it will be. But it’s not a stretch to picture this on many Reach titles, given the part-paywalls that have gone up at Mail Online and The Sun, and the digital subscriptions at many of the UK’s other biggest regional newsbrands.

It will be reassuring for many to know that the intention is to keep providing free news “in the main”. But it feels like a significant milestone for the media ecosystem that even the publishers who stress the democratic importance of free news can no longer rely on that model for their whole business (the same goes for The Guardian and its app which has a metered paywall).

Also at Reach, a major editorial leader is stepping down as Reach Scotland editor-in-chief David Dick moves to a role overseeing print production for the publisher’s national titles.

Meanwhile, a change in “business focus” at Fortune in Europe has led to its editorial team covering the region being made redundant - although new roles are being created.

Rather than a model based on news and page views, Fortune wants to concentrate here on events, print and rankings like Fortune 500 - creating a community of business leaders around that. However, I understand staff on the Europe team felt they had already begun to make this strategic shift.

These changes had already begun before the cuts to 10% of the global workforce were announced earlier this week, although a similar strategy appears to be the order of the day at the wider business, where they want to focus on “premium coverage of key Fortune 500 industries and into events that serve business leaders”.

Notably one thread ties the Reach subscriptions and Fortune stories together: the fact that publishers can no longer rely on the search traffic they used to receive in droves as Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT hit referrals.

And finally, two important news stories. The alarm has been sounded over the threat of starvation for journalists still attempting to work against all odds in Gaza. And an open justice win as, from October, courts will have to tell the media when discretionary reporting restrictions have been applied for.

On Press Gazette

Fortune Europe editorial team made redundant but new roles being created

The redundancies are separate to newly-announced plans to cut 10% of the Fortune global workforce.

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Reach to put ‘serious focus’ on subscriptions but expects to keep most news free

Publisher will remain "primarily ad-funded for the foreseeable".

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Reach Scotland editor-in-chief David Dick to lead publisher’s national titles in print

Dick named head of print (nationals) after leading Scottish newsrooms for seven years.

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Courts to notify journalists of reporting restrictions so they can be challenged

The amendment to the Criminal Procedure Rules is expected to improve transparency within the media industry..

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News in brief

BBC and news agencies sound alarm over ‘threat of starvation’ for journalists in Gaza. (Press Gazette)

Journalistic content was cited 27% of the time in 1m citations from gen AI tools analysed by Muck Rack. When the queries needed "a level of recency" that jumped to 49%. Reuters, the FT, Time, Forbes and Axios were among the most-cited media outlets. (Nieman Lab)

Some 45% of publishers/creators on Substack are using AI, with higher adoption among men and tech/business verticals. They most often use it for research (65%) but the most common gen AI use was image generation (41%). ChatGPT was the most popular tool (78%). (Substack)

Google search revenue saw double-digit year-on-year growth in Q2 after AI Overviews and AI Mode arrivals. (Alphabet)

Apple has reportedly re-enabled AI news notification summaries following previous inaccuracies and other issues that frustrated publishers. (Mac Rumours)

The Information Commissioner’s Office has described the Attorney General’s Office's intervention to "maximise the delay" of a response to a <