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The Substack frenzy seems like a thing of the past, but lots of publishers are still leaning into newsletters. “They’re a great minimally viable product.”
We won’t see another set of hearings like this one. But elements of it are going to show up a lot.
Netflix answers some questions. There are plenty left.
Lightyear will makes lots of money, and sell even more toys.
Netflix is losing subscribers. Does that mean Netflix has a problem or that streaming has a problem?
The bad news: Your startup is on the ropes. The good news: Here’s an offer for a discounted subscription.
Ads were supposed to be on their way out, replaced by subscription money. Now Netflix, Disney, and everyone else is learning to live with them.
This isn’t a close case.
Ron DeSantis’s political theater isn’t about changing the company — it’s about clout.
Reed Hastings used to have streaming to himself. That’s over now.
Today you can see superheroes in the theaters and lots of everything else at home. But in the future ...
Journalists struggled to accurately convey scientific uncertainty on Covid-19.
The paper of record’s subscriber base isn’t getting any younger. Maybe a $600 million deal will help.
A chat with Jason Kilar on his two-year tenure, the future of movies, and more.
Amazon isn’t competing with Netflix, but it is spending billions trying to figure out Hollywood. Maybe 007 can help.
Disney Gays have learned to love Disney, even if Disney hasn’t always loved them back.
A $250 billion question.
Other musicians aren’t boycotting the music service. Will you?
A big bet with real risk and reward.
The New York Times’s star media columnist is building a new thing.
Silicon Valley is ignoring the Elizabeth Holmes story. Hollywood isn’t.
The Vox Media-Group Nine deal — and all the other digital media deals — explained.
“The fate of BuzzFeed is going to determine the fortunes of a lot of other companies.”
An alternative media history, brought to us by a new oral history of HBO.
Heads up, Substack. But also Twitter. And Facebook. And the New York Times ...
And right-wing media is helping them.
Shang-Chi and the Eternals are entering a much more dimensional world.
Nothing to see here.
The sudden rise and precipitous fall of Newsmax, explained by an expert.
It thinks you’ll watch Stranger Things and then play Stranger Things, the game.
It’s good Hannity spoke out for vaccines. But Fox continues to be wildly irresponsible.
The newest streaming service doesn’t make sense, but it’s happening now anyway.
YouTube gives half its revenue to the people who make its videos. Facebook doesn’t want to do that.
Carlson’s story about the NSA reading his emails would be easier to take seriously if he wasn’t a serial fabulist.
BuzzFeed is smaller than it thought it was going to be but it thinks it’s big enough to sell shares to the public this fall.
A conspiracy theory about the insurrection illustrates the right-wing misinformation pipeline.
Facebook wants to launch its newsletter product later this month. But it doesn’t want controversial writers using it — just the ones it’s recruiting.
It probably won’t look like this for long.
Newsrooms are debating, in real time, what’s okay to say out loud and what you’re supposed to keep in your head. Ask Emily Wilder.
The people who brought you Game of Thrones are merging with the people who bring you 90 Day Fiancé.