Media & Publishing — US News Website Traffic Drops Double Digits at Majority of Top 50 Sites Despite Major War Coverage; Trump Escalates Press Threats; FT Wins Major Libel Battle

Media & Publishing · 2026-04-13

TODAY'S SIGNAL — The US news industry is facing a deeply uncomfortable contradiction: even a major military conflict — the Iran war — is failing to reverse structural audience decline. Press Gazette data shows more than half of the top 50 US news websites posted double-digit year-over-year traffic losses, a finding that should alarm every digital strategy team in the business. This collapse in…