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Coverage of the publishers, platforms, and people shaping the media business in the AI era.
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A $110 Billion Merger Cleared Washington Without a Fight — and the Real Story Is Who’s Left in the Middle
Washington waved through the $110 billion Paramount Skydance–Warner Bros. Discovery merger without a single condition — while a profitable local publisher showed that 400…
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Publishers Have Stopped Optimizing for AI and Started Forcing It to Pay
Condé Nast’s CEO has told staff to assume Google search traffic is already zero — while a fast-growing publisher coalition, two newsrooms blocking every…
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A Fact-Checker Can Vanish From CNN for Three Months, and No One Has to Explain Why
CNN’s most prominent fact-checker has been off the air for three months with no explanation — while in Australia, Southern Cross Austereo cuts up…
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The 60 Minutes Meltdown Is a Management Failure, Not a Culture War
Bari Weiss is running CBS News from behind a locked door while David Ellison cleans up — and the White House just handed its…
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The Vox Media Breakup Proves Digital Media’s Parts Are Worth More Than the Whole
James Murdoch’s Lupa Systems picks up New York Magazine, the podcast network, and Vox.com for $300M+ — while Google redesigns search to keep even…
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NYT Subscriptions — While US Local News Bleeds 26% of Its Paying Readers
FIPP data reveals a subscription market growing 24.7% but concentrating fast — the NYT now bundles into nine international publishers’ offerings, while Lee Enterprises…
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Publishers Hit the AI Acceptance Stage — Plus the Subscription Divide That Turned Into a Chasm
Weekend recap: Digital subscriptions grew 25% but only for publishers who own their audience. Lee Enterprises and Gannett shed subscribers by the hundred thousand…
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Condé Nast Is Planning for Zero Google Traffic — And the Rest of Publishing Should Be Paying Attention
Roger Lynch told every Condé Nast business unit to plan for a world with no Google Search. MarketBeat cut 42% of its email list…
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