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New ‘post-American’ global magazine to launch
Equator will “challenge the reigning assumption that global events should be narrated by and for the West.”
Courtesy of Equator
‘The verdict of history will be merciless’: A new left media rises in the age of Trump
Drop Site News is bringing on a new publisher as it and other leftist news sites get scoops and momentum.
Al Lucca/Semafor
How AI is reshaping media, with Google’s VP of marketing, Josh Spanier
How does Google think about advertising?
Trump threatens to sue NYT over Epstein coverage
The US president is already suing The Wall Street Journal and its owner Rupert Murdoch for its reporting on the Epstein files.
David Swanson/Reuters
LeBron James did not write essay published in Chinese state media: Reports
American basketball LeBron James did not write an essay in a Chinese state media outlet that was attributed to him, The Athletic reported.
Aly Song/Reuters
How to be elite in the age of populism, with the FT’s Roula Khalaf
What does it mean to serve the elite in a growing age of populism, and what are the consequences of high-quality journalism only being available to the 1%?
How media drove America crazy, with Thomas Chatterton Williams
Five years since the start of the pandemic and the racial reckoning post-George Floyd, we’re still seeing the effects that 2020 had on culture and politics.
Don Lemon on Elon Musk, Chris Cuomo, and why YouTube is better than CNN
After his dramatic breakup with CNN and failed partnership with Elon Musk’s X, Don Lemon now has almost 800,000 subscribers on YouTube.
Mark Cuban on AI in politics, running for president (or not), and why he hates the media business
Mark Cuban is everywhere – and famously accessible. But what might be called overexposure in a previous era is now a strength in a fragmented media world.
Can Bari Weiss remake one of the oldest US news channels?
The new owners of Paramount appear to think The Free Press founder can do it.
Inside the Boston Globe’s high-stakes investigation of the Boston Globe
The paper stood by one of its star editors after staffers accused him of berating them.
Times reporter launches longform journalism project
The former New York Times media reporter Ravi Somaiya is launching Bungalow.
Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo wants to take on Politico Playbook from the left
The publication is expanding its politics coverage to gear up for the midterm elections.
Can investors make The New York Times into the Netflix of news?
Fivespan Partners has taken a stake in the Grey Lady.
How AI will upend the news
Generative AI promises to revolutionize people’s relationship with information — and news organizations need to get ahead of that change.
New York Times teams up with Economist in play for worldwide readers
The US paper quietly rolled out the bundled subscription with the UK-based finance and business-focused publication earlier this year.
FCC Chair Carr takes his Comcast fight to the ballpark
Brendan Carr backed the Yankees’ YES Network in its carriage dispute with Comcast, and threw the first pitch at Yankee Stadium as the standoff deepens.
Chips on the table
In big American media, the currencies most journalists trade in have been access and information, not cash.