NEW: Bari Weiss addresses her decision to hold last night's CECOT story on the CBS News morning editorial call: "Our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else..."

scoop: Shelly Banjo to be named deputy editor in chief at @semafor.com, reporting to @semaforben.bsky.social

Barry Diller's advice to Paramount and Netflix? "Be prepared for a long siege." David Ellison's war with Netflix is a re-run of Diller's quest for Paramount three decades ago. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/b...

news: USA Today Editor in Chief Caren Bohan is exiting the company, per sources familiar. She will be replaced in the interim by Michael McCarter.

The Washington Post's RIPPLE™️ is here!! www.washingtonpost.com/ripple/

Interesting: Journalists at Politico and E&E News say they won an arbitration case over the use of A.I. tools in their newsrooms. "This case marks one of the nation’s first major labor-arbitration rulings addressing the impact of AI on journalists’ work." wbng.org/2025/12/01/p...

scoop w/ @laurenhirsch.bsky.social and @nsperling.bsky.social: Warner Bros. boss David Zaslav held a dinner party at Woodland, his French Regency-style home on Wednesday, where he talked up a bid from Netflix. The latest on the race for Hollywood's big prize: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/b...

tidbit: Hannah Poferl, The Times' head of audience, is leaving for a new opportunity, per email from Joe Kahn and Meredith Kopit Levien. She reported jointly to Meredith and Joe and will be replaced in the interim by executives who report separately to both.

News: The Bulwark has hired Renita Jablonski, The Washington Post’s head of audio. Quote from Jablonski:

the debate over A.I.'s use in newsrooms is also taking place at @npr.org, where last week a producer raised questions about a proposal to use A.I. to create digital versions of some radio stories: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

scoop: this year, an engineer at The Washington Post quit, citing unethical use of A.I. in an un-launched product. The Post ended up rolling out a different A.I. aggregator that it now uses. All that, and lots more, in this story with @katierobertson.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei announces cuts affecting 19 individuals on the product, tech and design teams, per note. “This is a difficult, but necessary, move to meet our evolving tech strategy.”

news: Laurie Orlando, SVP of strategy and talent, is leaving CBS News, per memo

Puck's acquisition of Air Mail means that some of the powerful people it covers now hold stakes in the company. Below are disclosures from Dylan Byers and Jon Kelly about RedBird, which has a stake in Paramount, and David Zaslav, who runs Warner Bros. Discovery.

Quick question: Does anyone know if there have been any great books written about efforts to create The State of Jefferson™️

scoop w/Jessica Testa: Puck paid $16 million (mostly in stock) for Graydon Carter's Air Mail. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...

News: Long-expected layoffs are beginning to hit Paramount today. Overall, roughly 2,000 employees are expected to be cut, or about 10% of the combined company. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/b...

new: Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, surprised senior staff at “60 Minutes” last week when she asked a provocative question — Why does the country think you’re biased? Inside Bari’s first two weeks, with Michael Grynbaum: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

new: The Washington Post is rolling out a beta version of Ripple, its A.I.-enabled opinion product. "The intention is to provide a range of recent perspectives from other publishers across America."

It's taken me a couple of days to process the death of Rick Edmonds, who I was lucky enough to work with at Poynter. Rick was a tremendous human and a superb colleague. Kristen Hare gets at what made him so special in this obituary.

It's official: Paramount is buying The Free Press for $150 million and making Bari Weiss the editor in chief of CBS News www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

scoop: Adam O’Neal, the new Opinion Editor at The Washington Post, is laying off staffers as part of a plan to shake up the section. A source says six employees are affected. I’ve also been told some contractors are being terminated. Here’s one email provided by a source:

It's official: WSJ Editor-in-Chief Emma Tucker announces that deputy editor in chief Charles Forelle is leaving

New: CPB says NPR's restraining order did not prevail. "It is deeply disappointing that...NPR is forcing CPB to expend scarce funds that could otherwise support stations in defending a lawsuit that has no merit and does not benefit the system."

Brian Roberts, Mike Cavanagh, and the most boring succession story of all time: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b...

NEWS: Sinclair says its ending its pre-emption of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

NEW: Nexstar says it is now "engaged in productive discussions with executives at The Walt Disney Company" to ensure the program "reflects and respects the diverse interests of the communities we serve." However, it's still pre-empting his show.

scoop: Karen Attiah, The Washington Post opinion writer fired by The Post earlier this month over social-media posts related to Charlie Kirk's death, has responded with a four-page letter, saying she was wrongfully terminated. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/b...

New: Nexstar and Sinclair are boycotting Jimmy Kimmel's return to late night tonight www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/b...

NEW: "I loved him." Bob Woodward remembers Robert Redford www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/b...

Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah says she was fired last week over posts on social media in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

Brian Kilmeade apologizes for suggesting mentally ill homeless people should be killed through involuntary lethal injection: “I apologize for that extremely callous remark.” www.foxnews.com/video/637940...

This story — which asks what happened to all of those newsroom DEI jobs, committees, and promises from 2020 — is the hardest one I've ever worked on. I hope you'll spend some time with it today. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

scoop: a group of Florida radio stations, reeling from state and federal funding cuts, last month sent a letter to Katherine Maher, the CEO of NPR, pleading for funding relief and requesting more transparency around fundraising. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

This is the first NPR/PBS station I've seen that's going out of business as a result of the federal rescission: radio.wpsu.org/2025-09-11/p...

new, with @laurenhirsch.bsky.social: Paramount is discussing making Bari Weiss editor-in-chief or co-president of CBS News in its acquisition of The Free Press www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/b...

scoop: cuts coming to CNBC International. Employees are being notified that their roles are potentially being impacted, part of a consultation process mandated by UK law.

scoop: John Malone tells me that CNN has become "a left-leaning, anti-Trump news service." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/b...

scoop with Michael Grynbaum: Chris Wallace has been quietly advising RedBird and David Ellison, the new owner of CBS News www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/b...

scoop: "All Things Considered" co-host Ari Shapiro is leaving the network. That makes the third major departure announced in the last several weeks, including founding mother Susan Stamberg and top editor Edith Chapin.

New, from the Pew Research Center: About half of U.S. adults say journalists are losing influence in society. www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2...

New, from Jim Stewart: A lawyer for Skydance denied that the company had struck a side-deal with President Trump, calling the reports "bullshit." The lawyer added that his firm "would appreciate it if we were not recounting that to others, especially in the press." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...

new: inside the $100 million race to rescue PBS and NPR stations (🎁🔗) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...

news: MSNBC is renaming itself MS NOW (My Source News Opinion World) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/b...

scoop: Guy Campanile is being replaced as EP of "CBS Evening News," to be replaced by Kim Harvey, a senior producer, per a source familiar with the matter. He's expected to return to "60 Minutes," where he was a longtime producer.

scoop: PBS is cutting its budget by 21% to deal with federal funding cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

It's official! After decades of control by the Redstones — and years of will-they-won't-they M&A speculation — Paramount finally has new owners. With @johnkoblin.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/b...

New: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it is shutting down cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

News: legendary Washington Post sports columnist @sallyjenx.bsky.social is leaving The Post.

news: three Washington Post standouts — Mike Semel, Monica Norton and Ann Gerhart — are leaving the newspaper, per email from Matt Murray just now