Food52 has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections. America's Test Kitchen announced as the proposed stalking horse bidder for its assets. www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

NYC is taking over Maimonides www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/n...

Very interesting for Weiss, the top editor of a 24/7 newsroom, to refer to this as "a slow news week."

Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair." One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

Between 2018 and 2023, private equity firm The Chernin Group (TCG) invested hundreds of millions into a "content-to-commerce" strategy, backing media companies like The Pro's Closet, Hodinkee, and Food52 that combined editorial content with e-commerce.

Friends, it is time once again to open the book of life and inscribe yet another journalist into it!!!! Hell Gate is hiring! This time, we're looking for an ace editor to help shape the coverage of our growing newsroom. Pay is good, benefits are even better. Apply! hellgatenyc.com/jobs/

Okay, who in the governor's office is responsible for this brass, elevator music cover of Sugar We're Going Down playing as live stream wait music? Why is there Fall Out Boy in my state politics? (Not complaining tho)

For years, legacy media was playing catch-up with digital news upstarts. No longer! CBS finally has a top editor who successfully raised money from a billionaire and so is qualified to send self-important and vacuous emails like "this did not advance the ball" and "NYT published something similar."

Bowen Yang leaving SNL. His last show will be the Ariana Grande/Cher holiday episode www.vulture.com/article/snl-...

Police are investigating a link between the mass shooting at a Brown University engineering building and the killing of an MIT physics professor at his home two days later www.reuters.com/world/us/pol...

It's been a long time since I covered straight finance, but to see analysts -- and Bloomberg -- questioning the reliability of US inflation and labor data like this is remarkable. Strange(r) times ahead, I guess. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Without a doubt, one of the funniest stories I've read this year. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

“Insiders say Disney execs were shocked to learn that the Academy had chosen the YouTube bid just moments before the Academy sent out its press release.” variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Wow, what a few months it’s been for Disney and, specifically, Disney Entertainment co-chair Dana Walden. First Kimmel and now losing the Oscars to YouTube. There was chatter that she was most likely to succeed Iger as CEO. Curious if that’s still the perception. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Today @technologyreview.com has a fantastic new package that corrects all the AI hype www.technologyreview.com/supertopic/h...

Here’s a free link to the article, the latest in our yearlong investigation of the American organ transplant system: nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u... (with @cocteau.bsky.social)

More than 100,000 people in the US need a new organ. Every year, thousands die waiting for a transplant. But despite the shortage, a new NYT investigation has found that some hospitals are aggressively courting patients from overseas who pay more for their transplants. 🧵

NEW: Ford is killing the all-electric F-150 Lightning and the upcoming clean-sheet EV truck codenamed "T3" A next-gen F-150 Lightning will now get a gas generator bolted on (aka "extended range EV") Future commercial EV van is dead too. E-Transit lives. More: techcrunch.com/2025/12/15/f...

Republicans Undercut Johnson, Circumventing Him to Force Votes www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...

Kingdom Hearts isn't the only place you'll find Mickey Mouse hanging out with Sora www.adweek.com/media/disney...

Excellent inside account of how Netflix won the bidding war for Warner Bros., by @lucasshaw.bsky.social (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Nuzzi out at Vanity Fair www.wsj.com/business/med...

Frank Gehry dead at 96 www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Wow. Netflix reportedly buying Warner Bros. film and TV studios and streaming service www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I went to the Nevada desert to see one of the world’s biggest AI data center buildouts. It’s so big it was hard to wrap my mind around. Downriver is the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe and the data centers’ water and power consumption could put their land at risk www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

if you're trying to automate news for speed frankly you've already lost the plot, for a number of reasons. very telling that this has a lot of words about "how" and almost zero words about "why"

More on today's federal vaccine advisory meeting: www.statnews.com/2025/12/04/c...

all right who's been using my spotify account?

Oops! Omnicom Media's first all-hands meeting post-merger was livestreamed on a public Vimeo feed. ADWEEK found the public link. @kendrabarnett.bsky.social reports what happened. www.adweek.com/agencies/the...

In a new story, @mariojoze.bsky.social and I look at the new studies and reasons for this gap: www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/a...

Interesting. I write on my phone because I've gotten too much pizza grease on my macbook keyboard and the flies won't let me anywhere near the spacebar

Huh, CNN strikes a deal with Kalshi to show prediction market content across its broadcast channels www.axios.com/2025/12/02/c...

I keep getting instagram ads for companies I’ve never heard of that are shutting down

Quiz teaches you how to spot AI-generated video www.npr.org/2025/11/30/n...

A strong and true report from the frontlines of tech accountability journalism by @caseynewton.bsky.social: "I'm noticing the degree to which platforms wish to be judged only by their stated intentions, and almost never on the outcomes of anyone who uses them." www.platformer.news/roblox-ceo-i...

A must-read profile of RFK Jr., perhaps the most powerful force in American health care in decades: www.statnews.com/2025/11/18/r...

Saudi money. Qatar money. Dubai money. @variety.com $WBD $PSKY variety.com/2025/biz/new...

great incentives we have here when Home Depot stock falls because “not enough hurricanes ☹️” bsky.app/profile/cono...

Low-income consumers are getting priced out of fast food (!) www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Rumors of something like this have circulated all year. Immigrant communities in Brooklyn speak of bounty hunters (loosely defined; I respect Joseph’s distinction below) as a certainty.

So if Olivia is 32 now, broke up with Lizza last year, was together with him for a decade, and then was living with you for 4+ years before that, how old was she when you moved her out of her (presumably parents’) house in the suburbs to live with you?

Valve is making a console. The Steam Machine, a sleek box with the guts of a mid-range PC that runs SteamOS, will arrive in early 2026. Prices TBD, but unlike the failed Steam Machine initiative from a decade ago, this is Valve's own device. Big news www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In a "hush-hush" MAHA summit, top health officials will mingle with industry leaders and activists www.statnews.com/2025/11/11/m...

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Y'all this is crazy! www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/04/r...

We're looking for a business reporter for a few months starting in December! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/bu...

I bear full responsibility for the intra-South Carolina beef that continues to escalate because of Nancy Mace. Original story here: www.wired.com/story/nancy-...

The actual numbers: NYC turnout, 2020 US primary: 25.7% NYC turnout, 2021 city primary: 26.5% NYC turnout, 2024 US primary: 10.1% NYC turnout, 2025 city primary: 29.9% Turnout doesn't necessarily go up during national election years, and dissatisfaction with national ticket can *depress* turnout.

NEW: Gannett is rebranding as USA Today Co. www.adweek.com/media/gannet...

Incredible stuff. Snowflake’s chief revenue officer gave a street interview to an influencer in which he, unauthorized, revealed guidance on revenue www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/10/...