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Why the New York Times is buying the Athletic

By Peter Kafka

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

By Peter Kafka

The Elizabeth Holmes saga is far from over

By Rebecca Heilweil

Why is Vox Media buying Group Nine?

By Peter Kafka

BuzzFeed’s a public company. Now what?

By Peter Kafka

How HBO could have become — or bought — Netflix

By Peter Kafka

The Atlantic wants to hire newsletter writers — and it wants their subscribers, too

By Peter Kafka

Republicans are priming their voters to believe the California recall was stolen

By Aaron Rupar

Fox News ignores a DC bomb threat inspired by right-wing conspiracy theory culture

By Aaron Rupar

Why Newsmax is failing

By Aaron Rupar

Why Netflix is getting into games

By Peter Kafka

Don’t be fooled by that viral Hannity clip. Fox News’s Covid-19 coverage is a mess.

By Aaron Rupar

What is CNN+ and why would you pay for it?

By Peter Kafka

Facebook wants creators, but YouTube is paying creators much, much more

By Peter Kafka

Tucker Carlson’s NSA spying claims are evidence-free. Republicans are running with them anyway.

By Aaron Rupar

BuzzFeed grew up. Now it’s going public.

By Peter Kafka

The glaring problems with Tucker Carlson’s attempt to blame the FBI for the insurrection

By Aaron Rupar

Why you can’t write for Bulletin, Facebook’s new Substack clone

By Peter Kafka

Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today

By Rani Molla and Peter Kafka

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

By Peter Kafka

Journalists can tweet about Black Lives Matter but not about Palestine

By Peter Kafka

It never made sense for AT&T to buy WarnerMedia. Now it’s undoing its $100 billion deal.

By Peter Kafka

Apple has an antitrust problem. Here’s one way to solve it.

By Peter Kafka

Twitter makes all of its money from ads. It’s trying to change that.

By Peter Kafka

How subscriptions took over our lives

By Terry Nguyen

Apple will let podcasters sell subscriptions and keep a cut for itself

By Peter Kafka

Substack wants to pay you to write about local news

By Peter Kafka

Fox News has become a jobs program for some Trump family members and ex-staffers

By Aaron Rupar

Why the defamation lawsuits against Fox News could seriously hurt the company

By Ian Millhiser

Fox News’s coverage of Biden’s press conference was hilariously petty

By Aaron Rupar

Substack writers are mad at Substack. The problem is money and who’s making it.

By Peter Kafka

TikTok surprises users by making personalized ads mandatory

By Sara Morrison

Hannity says Biden should call Trump and thank him for his Covid-19 response. That’s a stretch.

By Aaron Rupar

The problem for Paramount+ (and every other streamer)? Everyone already has Netflix.

By Peter Kafka and Rani Molla

Why Fox News is having a day-long meltdown over Dr. Seuss

By Aaron Rupar

How YouTube swallowed the world

By Peter Kafka and Shirin Ghaffary

Rush Limbaugh and the echo chamber that broke American politics

By Sean Illing

Inside the new $65 million push from progressives to compete with conservative media

By Theodore Schleifer

Why Spotify wants to work with Joe Rogan, Barack Obama, and … you

By Peter Kafka

Why are mainstream news outlets giving a platform to Republicans who lie about the 2020 election?

By Aaron Rupar

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