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Here’s who owns everything in Big Media today

By Rani Molla and Peter Kafka June 18

Dan Rather’s single biggest secret for interviewing powerful people

By Emily Todd VanDerWerff June 13

Twitter’s co-founder yearns for the time when bloggers couldn’t get instant feedback

By Shirin Ghaffary June 11

Activists see NBC’s Democratic debate moderators as a win for representation

By Li Zhou June 11

Running the New York Times is just one thing A.G. Sulzberger is working on

By Peter Kafka June 11

Russia and China are waging a “shadow war” against the US, and the battlefields will be AI and space, CNN’s Jim Sciutto says

By Eric Johnson June 11

Why Amazon is going to be one of the winners of the streaming video wars

By Eric Johnson June 10

Watch Laura Ingraham tell her audience to disbelieve something Trump just told her

By Aaron Rupar June 7

Even worse than Jeffrey Goldberg’s sexist quote was his gaslighting of a journalist

By Laura McGann June 6

David French vs. Sohrab Ahmari and the battle dividing conservatives, explained

By Jane Coaston June 5

Meet the man with an impossible job: cleaning up YouTube

By Peter Kafka May 23

Former US Attorney Preet Bharara says good journalism may have undermined the Mueller report

By Eric Johnson May 16

Hulu CEO Randy Freer explains why Hulu never promoted its ad-free version

By Eric Johnson May 13

Netflix has made a rare acquisition, to help it make more kids’ stuff

By Peter Kafka May 9

Disney put more than $400 million into Vice Media. Now it says that investment is worthless.

By Peter Kafka May 8

Disney+ will not be a “Netflix killer” because at this point, nothing can kill Netflix

By Eric Johnson May 7

Amazon wants to pay the New York Times and BuzzFeed to expand so it can reach more shoppers outside the US

By Peter Kafka May 6

Kickstarter co-founder Perry Chen’s advice to startup founders and investors: Don’t lie to each other

By Eric Johnson May 3

YouTube says it’s still trying to fix itself. But it’s not going to stop selling itself to advertisers.

By Peter Kafka May 2

The fight for the bundle is the war for the future of TV

By Peter Kafka May 2

Coverage of Trump’s latest rally shows how major media outlets normalize his worst excesses

By Aaron Rupar April 29

David Haskell has one of the hardest jobs in media: replacing a beloved magazine editor

By Eric Johnson April 28

What the hell happened at The Markup? Part 2: Co-founders Sue Gardner and Jeff Larson respond to Julia Angwin’s Recode Decode interview

By Eric Johnson April 26

What the hell happened at The Markup? Part 1: Former editor-in-chief Julia Angwin on Recode Decode

By Eric Johnson April 26

Digital media lifestyle brand Brit + Co is laying off most of its employees

By Theodore Schleifer April 23

Why is LinkedIn producing original journalism? LinkedIn editor-at-large Jessi Hempel explains.

By Eric Johnson April 18

Netflix is booming internationally, but its growth is slowing in the US

By Peter Kafka April 16

What Pete Buttigieg learned from Donald Trump

By Matthew Yglesias April 16

AMC Networks boss Josh Sapan wants the people who make TV to look at the data — but not too much

By Eric Johnson April 16

If Congress cancels federal funding for PBS, rural areas will be hurt the most, says CEO Paula Kerger

By Eric Johnson April 15

Nancy Pelosi says Trump’s tweets “cheapened the presidency” — and the media encourages him

By Eric Johnson April 12

Disney used to make hundreds of millions from Netflix. Now it will spend billions to fight it.

By Peter Kafka April 12

Everyone in TV news goes for outrage. That makes it “ripe for disruption,” says former CNN reporter Jessica Yellin

By Eric Johnson April 11

Mark Halperin says his conduct has changed. His commentary is the same.

By Laura McGann April 5

Apple has sold lots of music subscriptions — so it thinks it will sell lots of other stuff, too

By Peter Kafka April 5

The company that owns the New Yorker and Vogue is bleeding money. A new CEO is supposed to turn things around.

By Peter Kafka April 4

Here are all the new products Snap launched at its first partner conference

By Kurt Wagner April 4

Why Tucker Carlson pretends to hate elites

By Carlos Maza April 3

Valerie Jarrett has some advice for Democrats running in 2020

By Eric Johnson April 3

Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook may pay publishers to put their stuff in a dedicated news section

By Peter Kafka April 1

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