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Archives for December 2018


Kroll, 34, died of an alleged drug overdose, according to TMZ.


The way we normally see that footage — black and white, scratchy and silent — is “like a barrier between us and the actual people that were being filmed,” Jackson tells Recode’s Kara Swisher.


The end of an era in conservative media.


Despite interested buyers, the Weekly Standard will stop publishing after 23 years.


The world’s biggest social network wants to get into the pay TV business — by taking a page from Amazon.


Platforms like YouTube and Netflix are at war, and Shots Studios CEO John Shahidi is happy to sell content to all of them.

Here’s a visual look back at the year.


Sullivan’s essay on political tribalism shows he’s blinded by his own.


Klein says Twitter has made journalists dumber, meaner and more reactive.


Another day, a similar story featuring Google CEO Sundar Pichai.


Whatever comes next will probably look a lot more like the expensive cable bundles that cord-cutters tried to escape.


Mueller came in third, behind the man that may be next in his sights: Donald Trump.


And Verizon investors seem fine with that.


Maria Ressa, the journalist who co-founded Rappler in the Philippines, warns that her country is a “cautionary tale” for the United States.


“His first loyalty was to the audience, to manufacturing outrage, to weaponizing division.”