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The multibillion-dollar defamation lawsuits against Fox News, explained

By Nicole Narea, Ian Millhiser, and 1 more March 21

The desperate pandering of Tucker Carlson

By Andrew Prokop March 8

Ron DeSantis’s plan to strip First Amendment rights from the press, explained

By Ian Millhiser March 8

“Make Trump a non person”: Rupert Murdoch’s Ron DeSantis pivot, explained by a legal filing

By Andrew Prokop February 28

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

By Peter Kafka February 16

The case for better-seats-cost-more movie tickets

By Peter Kafka February 10

Sean Hannity’s damning deposition in the Fox News defamation lawsuit, explained

By Nicole Narea December 22, 2022

Elon Musk’s Twitter journalist purge has begun

By Shirin Ghaffary December 16, 2022

The people who hate Sam Bankman-Fried the most

By Peter Kafka December 7, 2022

Twitter’s ad problem is Elon Musk

By Peter Kafka November 10, 2022

Ben Smith’s Semafor is live. He says it will take 10 years to get it right.

By Peter Kafka October 26, 2022

Welcome to Netflix — with ads

By Peter Kafka October 13, 2022

The mysterious ad slump of 2022

By Peter Kafka September 28, 2022

Who owns what in Big Media today

By Rani Molla and Peter Kafka September 21, 2022

Why Disney didn’t buy Twitter

By Peter Kafka September 7, 2022

Where we’re spending our screentime, in 3 charts

By Peter Kafka and Rani Molla August 31, 2022

Meet the billionaire who loves Fox News and owns a piece of CNN

By Peter Kafka August 26, 2022

Did CNN’s Brian Stelter lose his job because of politics or money?

By Peter Kafka August 18, 2022

House of the Dragon is coming to HBO. So is the Netflix Chill.

By Peter Kafka August 17, 2022

How Facebook helped Axios sell for $500 million

By Peter Kafka August 9, 2022

The newsletter boom is over. What’s next?

By Peter Kafka August 3, 2022

The January 6 hearings brought politics into the TikTok age

By Peter Kafka July 27, 2022

Here’s what Netflix execs think about the Netflix problem

By Peter Kafka July 20, 2022

Netflix slips and Hollywood cheers. Maybe it shouldn’t.

By Peter Kafka June 1, 2022

How to make money during the tech crash: Write about it

By Peter Kafka May 25, 2022

Coming soon to a streaming service near you: Ads

By Peter Kafka May 11, 2022

Why Netflix is suddenly losing subscribers

By Peter Kafka April 19, 2022

This is as good as movies are going to get

By Peter Kafka April 13, 2022

What the media needs to get right in the next pandemic

By Kelsey Piper April 10, 2022

The New York Times’s old white Democrats problem

By Peter Kafka April 6, 2022

WarnerMedia’s ex-boss says you should be happy with Batman at theaters and rom-coms at home

By Peter Kafka April 5, 2022

Why Amazon is paying nearly $9 billion for MGM and James Bond

By Peter Kafka March 17, 2022

Apple broke Facebook’s ad machine. Who’s going to fix it?

By Peter Kafka February 14, 2022

It’s going to take a lot more than Neil Young to change Spotify’s mind about Joe Rogan

By Peter Kafka January 27, 2022

Why the New York Times is buying the Athletic

By Peter Kafka January 6, 2022

Ben Smith had one of the coolest jobs in journalism. Now he wants to do something else.

By Peter Kafka January 4, 2022

The Elizabeth Holmes saga is far from over

By Rebecca Heilweil January 4, 2022

Why is Vox Media buying Group Nine?

By Peter Kafka December 13, 2021

BuzzFeed’s a public company. Now what?

By Peter Kafka December 6, 2021

How HBO could have become — or bought — Netflix

By Peter Kafka November 18, 2021