Reporters Without Borders identifies 230 agreements between media and generative AI companies from 2023 to May 2026. 71% are concentrated in five Anglophone countries, while Spain and Latin America have minimal presence.
The 71% of the 230 public agreements signed between media outlets and generative artificial intelligence companies from 2023 to May 2026 are concentrated in Anglophone media from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This is reported in the AI Media Atlas published by Reporters Without Borders (RSF), as noted by ecosistemastartup.com.
The breakdown by country shows extreme concentration: the United States has 128 agreements, about 37 for every 100 million inhabitants. It is followed by the United Kingdom with 29 and France with 25. In Germany, RSF identifies 10 agreements, two of which are from the Axel Springer group.
The contrast with other regions is notable. India, with around 1.4 billion inhabitants, records only two public agreements, a rate of 0.1 agreements per 100 million people. In Asia, the total is nine alliances: two Indonesian media (Kompas and Antara), two Japanese financial outlets (Minkabu Infonoid and News Pick), the Times of India, the digital Scroll.in, the South Korean agency Yonhap, and two publications based in Hong Kong. Latin America totals six agreements.
The participation by company is also highly concentrated. Of the 230 contracts, ProRata has signed 116, OpenAI 20, Perplexity 27, Google 14, Microsoft 12, Meta 12, Amazon 12, and Qwant 16. Mistral closes the list with a single agreement. This concentration explains why the geographical map is so uneven: a few players decide with whom they negotiate, and they usually do so in their own languages and markets.
The underlying argument is not ideological; it is economic. RSF cites a study by Otterly.AI and Press Ranger published in August 2026 which states that media outlets that have signed agreements with OpenAI can achieve up to 48% more visibility than those that have not subscribed to them. The difference is significant as ChatGPT is becoming one of the main gateways to information.
The case of Le Monde illustrates the mechanism. When announcing its agreement with OpenAI, the French newspaper stated that its archive would be "one of the main references" to ensure the reliability of ChatGPT's responses. Days later, before the French Senate committee on the grey areas of information (June 4, 2026), a representative from OpenAI denied that there was any hierarchy of content due to collaborations. The two versions coexist in the opacity that RSF denounces: no one knows exactly what is agreed upon or what changes in the final product.
For a Latin American or Spanish media outlet, the consequence is twofold. On one hand, losing relevance in the fastest-growing channel as a source of information. On the other, giving up a new revenue stream at a time when print media is facing a global crisis. Estimates collected by Exchange4media place the accumulated commitment of Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Meta, Perplexity, and Mistral with publishers at around $2.92 billion by January 2025, with the largest known agreement from OpenAI, that of News Corp, for over $250 million over five years.
Spain appears in RSF's analysis within the European group with a "limited presence compared to the Anglophone world." The Prisa Group has recently added Meta to its list of agreements, which already included OpenAI and Google, a significant move for Spanish-speaking media, but still isolated.
In Latin America, the six known agreements paint a specific map. In Brazil, the newspaper Folha de São Paulo signed with OpenAI and Google Gemini, and the portal UOL also with OpenAI; in Argentina, Infobae signed a pact with Gemini; in Mexico, Mexico News Daily did so with Perplexity. All of them are significant players, but the total figure for the region is less than that of a single medium-sized European country.
The opacity does not help. RSF points out that ProRata claims to work with over 150 organizations and 1,600 publications, although it only provided the organization with a "representative" selection according to its founder, Bill Gross. Amazon announced in May 2026 more than 200 agreements for its Alexa+ service, but only made public names like Reuters, The Washington Post, Politico, and USA Today.
You may also like
