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John Gruber has a reasonably modest proposal.
Jack Dorsey has bought Scroll, an ad-blocking startup. It’s part of a larger subscription push.
On platforms like Substack and Patreon, subscriptions can be emotional purchases. But others, like Amazon Prime, feel more like utilities.
Apple hasn’t tried to make a business out of podcasting until now. Will you pay?
Your local newspaper is dying. Can newsletters replace it?
The network will soon feature multiple shows hosted by former Trump administration officials.
Fox spread a dangerous lie about the 2020 election. Now the network could face expensive consequences.
Fox News immediately shifted from blasting Biden for not having pressers to blasting him for not having more of them.
You’ll have to wait until July to see Black Widow in theaters or at home.
The newsletter startup’s new controversy, explained.
On April 15, TikTok’s ad targeting will get more aggressive.
Fox News’s absurd reaction to Biden’s primetime coronavirus speech, explained.
Three charts that explain the streaming wars.
Biden didn’t mention Dr. Seuss in his Read Across America Day statement. All hell broke loose from there.
Google’s video site has room for everything, from everyone. Is that a feature or a bug?
A historian of talk radio explains how the medium became a powerful alternative reality machine.
It’s called the Project for Good Information, and it raises big questions about the future of the information wars.
The service is paying big money to big stars. But people who aren’t famous — maybe even you, the person reading this — might want to upload some stuff, too.
Steve Scalise’s ABC interview was a case study in how not to handle Republicans who push “the big lie.”
The network ended its highest-rated show after voting software company Smartmatic named Dobbs in a defamation lawsuit.
The network really does not want to get sued.
Lindell used a Newsmax interview to spread lies about Trump’s loss. It didn’t go well.
Fox News loves a good “Democrats in disarray” story — but not so much when it comes to Republicans.
For the first time in nearly 20 years, Fox News isn’t the top-rated cable news network.
A freelance editor for the New York Times tweeted that she had “chills” watching Joe Biden’s plane land.
The veteran interviewer had been hospitalized with Covid-19 in late 2020.
In his first foreign policy move, Biden fired Michael Pack, the head of the US Agency for Global Media.
The big platforms finally policed Donald Trump. But there’s no one — really — to police the platforms except their owners and employees.
Guess what happens when you tell people, over and over, that they’re being robbed? They may believe you.
We talked to Matt Gertz of Media Matters about Trump’s one-sided feud with Fox, the rise of OAN and Newsmax, and where right-wing cable news is headed.
Neither the media nor fact-checkers controlled the online conversation surrounding “misinformation” this year.
Americans consumed twice as much dubious news in 2020 as they did in 2019.
Even after the pandemic upended the movie business, Disney is sticking to the status quo.
What to expect from Disney’s streaming service in 2021 and beyond.
They’d have you believe the ongoing humanitarian disaster is primarily an economic problem hurting business owners.
You can see all of Warner Bros.’ movies on HBO Max next year — on the same day they come to theaters. Here’s a Q&A with Jason Kilar about the logic behind the move.
Language diversity within the AAPI community means misinformation is difficult to track.
Streaming TV should be easy, but fights among Roku, Amazon, HBO, and NBC are making it hard.
“A brand mascot that jumped off the cereal box”: TV critic James Poniewozik explains the multimedia character Trump created.
The Times’s subscription business is booming. But the BuzzFeed CEO has a critique.