“The settlement amounts to about $3,000 per book and is believed to be the largest ever recovery in a U.S. copyright case” variety.com/2025/digital...

Also very interested in the various ways public media is experimenting with tactics to survive these lean times. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/with...

FeedMe is staffing up. I'm very interested in how these essentially solo media ventures are going to scale their teams in the next few years. www.status.news/p/john-malon...

Interesting partnership. I'd have to assume most Economist readers are also Times readers, not sure that cuts equally in the other direction... www.semafor.com/article/09/0...

It's genuinely fascinating how long this has gone on. www.businessinsider.com/group-black-...

To designate Google as a monopoly, but impose no actual remedies, makes this whole trial seem like a huge waste of time and taxpayer money. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/g...

Like the new Vaniry Fair the vision here seems to be smaller. Less print, more direct, and Anna still steering the ship at a high level. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/b...

After losing an appeal against CNN, Alan Dershowitz plans to ask the Supreme Court to overturn New York Times v. Sullivan, the 1964 case that protects journalists and others from weaponized lawsuits. www.cnn.com/2025/08/29/b...

Many such cases. www.thecut.com/article/aaro...

Kari Lake, the Trump administration official tasked with dismantling the Voice of America, sent termination notices to more than 500 employees at the broadcaster and its parent agency Friday night.

Nick Davies - who broke UK tabloid hacking scandal wide open - puts Wash Post's Will Lewis once more under a spotlight He asks: was Lewis involved in cover up for Murdoch & executives rather than cleaning up? via Air Mail airmail.news/issues/2025-...

It's a long list, but using OAN to create leverage in a carriage fight with Fox might be the most cynically irresponsible thing YouTube has ever done. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

"Customers will be able to access subscriptions to NBCUniversal’s Peacock on the Prime Video and Fire TV, while Prime Video content will be available on Xfinity X1 devices" www.wsj.com/business/med...

Limiting access from foreign journalists is the next logical step once you've brought the domestic media to heel. www.reuters.com/business/med...

I’m less concerned that some dark money Dems are paying influencers (about time) than I am about the fact that I’ve never heard of most of these people.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has announced it will stop publishing a print newspaper at the end of the year, and divert all of its resources into its digital news operation. The company has published in print since 1868

There’s no way this HK kangaroo court will free Jimmy Lai, but other governments should apply pressure. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/w...

"As senators gathered at the Capitol last month to debate legislation to allow President Trump to zero out funding for public broadcasting, a siren and public service message rang out more than 4,000 miles away in this small town in the Aleutian Islands." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...

None of these AI pay schemes really point toward longterm sustainability for publishers. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Recession indicator. www.businessinsider.com/mrbeast-beas...

"Noisy Creek appears to have helped stabilize its acquired publications. The Stranger and the Mercury both resumed publishing print editions this past April, five years after they’d halted issues due to pandemic-induced advertising revenue loss." www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/nois...

"Peter will assume editorial leadership of a news team of more than 60." www.themarshallproject.org/2025/08/26/j...

Time promotes Alex Altman, previously deputy Washington bureau chief and executive features editor, to executive editor (Ray Schultz/MediaPost) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

“This offer was necessarily contingent on the FCC approving the deal and does not appear to present any legitimate value to the public, only to President Trump” thehill.com/homenews/med...

You've got to feel some sympathy. Lobbying for years to win the Olympics only to have to deliver them with the country in this condition. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Certain publications are going to be able to sell print the way record labels sell vinyl. Not for everyone, for some. www.wsj.com/business/med...

This is going to keep happening. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...

At least the world is learning from our errors. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

MSNBC is proposing to spend $20 million on it's widely mocked rebrand to MSNOW www.breakermedia.com/p/joanna-col...

The hollowing out of public media continues. current.org/2025/08/pbs-...

Death, Taxes, and the Cable Bundle. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/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.

Documents from the Smartmatic/Fox lawsuit show how Maria Bartiromo and other Fox hosts privately aided Trump's bid to overturn the 2020 US election... www.wsj.com/business/med...

"Yahoo Sports Network, operated by C15 Studio, is available on LG Channels and Sling Freestream, and will launch on Samsung TV Plus, Amazon Fire TV, Fubo, Plex, Prime Video, and The Roku Channel over the coming weeks." variety.com/2025/tv/news...

"With nine state-specific editions and one national edition sent out to 2.5 million email addresses every weekday, the company pushes out 51 different editions a week" pressgazette.co.uk/north-americ...

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

Honestly, a 10% decline is less than I would have thought. pressgazette.co.uk/media-audien...

The first of many, I'd assume. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Did this ever happen? newsroom.spotify.com/2025-05-06/s...

“When a Tribal station goes dark, the silence is more than technical...These stations are not just media outlets, they are cultural infrastructure.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/how-...

I think the time to "redefine" these brands has well passed, but good luck. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Hard to overstate how despicable this is. These are people who took significant personal risks because they believed in American ideals.

“This closure had nothing to do with the Wyoming newspapers,” Hamilton said. “All of our papers were profitable.” - Many such cases. wyofile.com/longtime-wyo...

Many contributing factors, but this isn't not a sign of society-wide intellectual decay. www.axios.com/2025/08/12/s...

"Some of those reporters face likely persecution or imprisonment if they are deported to their home nations after having worked for the United States government." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The White House, very plainly, does not have that authority. Not that those things matter anymore. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...

The future of Vanity Fair is smaller. variety.com/2025/digital...

One of the few niche streamers to survive the early rounds of the streaming wars... variety.com/2025/tv/news...

Is there really any project left from these two that would justify another deal? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/b...

An obvious workaround for AI scrapers, kind of shocking that no one thought to close this loophole before now. www.theverge.com/news/757538/...