Reach CEO touts Google AI deal as a template, steps up pressure on OpenAI over scraping
October 16, 2026 The U.K.-based publisher, owner of newspaper titles the Daily Express and Daily Star and OK! Magazine, has agreed to deal with Google, which Digiday understands has a two-year time stamp. The deal gives Google paid access to expanded rights to use news content from Reach’s UK and Ireland portfolio for its news AI pilot. In return, Google can use that content in experi...