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October 28, 2024

Media & TV

Jeff Bezos defends Washington Post non-endorsement after subscribers flee and staffers resign

The subscription money enriching Jeff Bezos could instead be spent on the journalism crucial to preserving democracy.

October 28, 2024

Media & TV

Three Washington Post editorial board members step down amid wave of canceled subscriptions over non-endorsement

The Washington Post Building in DC on June 5, 2024. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images North America/Getty Images

October 07, 2024

Media & TV

‘Talking in circles’: Kamala triggers frenzy

Kamala Harris triggered a furious backlash after appearing on the world’s second most popular podcast. Here’s why some listeners are so incensed.

September 30, 2024

Media & TV

Disgraced NBC News anchor negotiating first hosting gig in years

Photo by: Heidi Gutman/MSNBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images

June 04, 2024

Media & TV

Washington Post Newsroom Reels From Its Editor’s Sudden Exit

Sally Buzbee, who has been editor of The Washington Post since 2021, chafed at a major reorganization by the newspaper’s chief executive.

By Editors Desk

Ms. Buzbee will be temporarily replaced as the top editor of The Post by Matt Murray, the former editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal.Credit...Celeste Sloman for the Washington Post

February 23, 2024

Media & TV

VICE shuts down website and lays off ‘hundreds’ of staff

Once valued at $5.7 billion, the outlet has since descended into irrelevance

By Editors Desk

January 23, 2024

Media & TV

LA Times fires 115 journalists in ‘HR zoom webinar’ following union protests

Young journalists of color ‘disproportionately affected’, with many Black, Asian American and Latino staffers laid off, Times guild says

By Editors Desk

Los Angeles Times Guild journalists rally in front of City Hall to protest against layoffs on 19 January 2024. Photograph: Patrick T Fallon/AFP/Getty Images

January 23, 2024

Media & TV

Journalists of color hit hard in seismic L.A. Times layoffs

“The company has reneged on its promises to diversify its ranks since young journalists of color have been disproportionately affected,” the newspaper’s union says.

By Editors Desk

The Los Angeles Times building and newsroom along Imperial Highway in El Segundo, Calif., in 2020. Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images file

January 20, 2024

Media & TV

Sports Illustrated Announces Major Layoffs, Putting the Brand’s Future in Jeopardy

By Editors Desk

Sports Illustrated is published by Arena Group. PHOTO: JOE RAEDLE/GETTY IMAGES

January 18, 2024

Media & TV

Billionaires Wanted to Save the News Industry. They’re Losing a Fortune.

Time magazine, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times — owned by Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos, and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong — are still losing money.

From left, Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong have all bought well-known media outlets.Credit...Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images; Evan Agostini, via Invision, via Associated Press; Alex Welsh for The New York Times

January 18, 2024

Media & TV

CNN chief Mark Thompson outlines his plan to transform the network for the future: ‘It’s time for a revolution’

“We need to recapture some of the swagger and innovation of the early CNN,” Thompson wrote

By Editors Desk

January 16, 2024

Media & TV

Congrats, and Goodbye, to Peak TV

The Emmys on Monday night felt in many ways like a bookend to one of the defining features of the streaming era: a never-ending supply of new programming.

The cast of “Succession,” one of the big winners at the Emmys on Monday.Credit...Aude Guerrucci/Reuters

December 09, 2023

Media & TV

Tucker Carlson Starts Subscription Website, Promises Exclusive Content

Carlson hinted that the website may be a piece of a bigger pie.

By Dave Dave

Tucker Carlson GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images

December 09, 2023

Media & TV

Former CNN Boss Jeff Zucker Eyes Unlikely Next Role: British Media Mogul

Veteran media executive’s investment group is a top contender to buy two U.K. publications, for which he plans U.S. expansion

By Editors Desk

Jeff Zucker oversaw a period of strong ratings growth at CNN. PHOTO: BILL O’LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST/GETTY IMAGES

December 01, 2023

Business

Media stocks jump after report says Apple, Paramount are discussing streaming bundle

Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount Global shares jumped Friday.

By Editors Desk

Jakub Porzycki | Nurphoto | Getty Images

November 28, 2023

Media & TV

Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

We asked them about it — and they deleted everything.

By Editors Desk

Image by Joe Raedle via Getty / Futurism

November 25, 2023

Media & TV

Why Can’t We Quit “The Morning Show”?

Apple’s glossy experiment in prestige melodrama is utterly baffling—and must-watch TV.

By Editors Desk

“The Morning Show,” starring Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston, owes its appeal to a genre the golden age forgot.Photograph by Karolina Wojtasik courtesy Apple TV+

November 14, 2023

Entertainment

Look out. Streaming is turning into cable TV.

‘Free’ or discounted subscriptions from Disney or your phone company can be a great deal — or a sucker’s bet.

By Editors Desk

(Illustration by Elena Lacey/The Washington Post)

November 10, 2023

Media & TV

Jezebel shuts down, lays off staff in ‘excruciating’ decision, parent company says

Why it matters: The cuts are the latest in a string of changes G/O Media has made to its portfolio in recent years amid volatility in the digital media industry.

By Editors Desk

The Jezebel website is seen on a laptop on November 9, 2023. Brook Joyner/CNN

September 23, 2023

Media & TV

A Murdoch Heir’s Start-and-Stop Climb to the Top

As Rupert Murdoch plans to step down as chair of Fox and News Corp, his son Lachlan brings a different leadership style.

By Editors Desk

Lachlan Murdoch, shown in 2018, is to take charge of his family’s media empire later this year. PHOTO: STEPHANIE KEITH/GETTY IMAGES