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Axios HQ acquires PR network Mixing Board
The network of communications industry experts was founded by former Twitter executive Sean Garrett
Mixing Board
The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’
Vox Media’s technology-focused site announced Tuesday that it was rolling out its first sitewide subscription service, putting some content behind a paywall.
The Verge
Media braces for consolidation in 2025, as investors chase Bari Weiss’ Free Press
Media insiders expect investment and dealmaking to whir back to life.
Bari Weiss in 2022. (Reuters/Mike Blake)
A new kind of local news in San Francisco
The San Francisco Standard, that city’s lively and well-funded digital upstart, is experimenting with tiered membership.
Kaitlan Collins’ star rises at CNN
The 32-year-old anchor could soon be lead White House correspondent.
Kaitlan Collins in 2022. (Reuters/Al Drago)
‘Get me on Rogan!’: PR scrambles to navigate new media
The 2024 election made the new media landscape clear. Now the great American industry of public relations is diving into the fragmented world of podcasts and influencers.
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Feed Me’s Emily Sundberg and her ‘studio mindset’
Sundberg’s business and culture newsletter has developed a cult following — and racked up 50,000 subscribers.
A tale of two jets: The old media grapples with its new limits
Remnick-Goldberg-Murray-Lessin-VandeHei-Thompson on the beginning of a new, diminished era for America’s legacy outlets.
TikTok astrologers are convinced this election isn’t over
Many had predicted before the election that Vice President Kamala Harris would win.
Gannett probes possible leak of bombshell Iowa poll
A stray tweet predicted the findings of Ann Selzer’s Iowa poll shortly before its release.
Needle at risk: In bitter, election-day labor dispute, union accuses Times of trying to ‘burn the house down,’ while paper accuses tech workers of trying to ‘block this public service’
A labor feud plays out on election day.
In a frank internal meeting, The New York Times wrestled with its political role
It’s an extraordinary look inside a key American institution under intense external scrutiny and internal pressure.
Open letter to Jeff Bezos: To restore trust in news, we need to look forward, not backward
Semafor CEO and co-founder Justin Smith on what the news industry needs to do next.
Why the Economist is endorsing in 2024
The British publication is going for Kamala Harris.
Washington Post pays to boost stories critical of Trump as subscribers flee
The paper has seen a mass exodus of subscribers since its owner Jeff Bezos decided it would no longer endorse candidates for president.
Bezos’ data-driven Washington Post gets its clearest signal yet
A wave of subscribers quickly deserted the paper after its owner canceled a planned endorsement of Kamala Harris.
Bezos celebrated in Europe with Katy Perry as Post crisis began
The Post owner lamented the timing of his decision to spike an endorsement of Kamala Harris.
Inside The Wall Street Journal, recriminations over Gershkovich’s arrest
The messy backstory on how the Journal sent a reporter, twice, to the heart of Russia’s military-industrial complex in wartime.