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Hours after news of Mueller’s testimony broke, Trump called Maria Bartiromo and melted down on live TV.

After nearly 70 years covering the presidency, the newsman knows a little something about talking to big names.


Medium CEO and Twitter co-founder Ev Williams said people get “burned out” on many social media platforms because of their competitive nature.


Four of the five moderators that have been announced are women or people of color.


New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger will speak at Code Conference 2019.


Hacking and election interference were just the start.


A small number of companies will win the streaming “battle royale,” says former Amazon Studios strategist Matthew Ball. Amazon is “guaranteed” to be one of them, he says.


The final, most essential command.


The editor of the Atlantic maligned a reporter for getting the story right.


The fight isn’t about a National Review columnist. It’s about what conservatism is, and should be.


A Q&A with the ESPN boss, who took over Disney’s powerful network a year ago.


A Q&A with Neal Mohan, YouTube’s chief product officer.


“The ‘fake news’ that Donald Trump decried, I think there’s an argument that it sort of saved him.”


On the latest episode of Recode Media, former Amazon and Hulu employee Eugene Wei explains why Netflix and its competitors aren’t playing the same game.


The more expensive Hulu No Commercials plan was announced in 2015, and almost four years later, the company is finally ready to start advertising that it exists.


The streaming company has bought StoryBots, a kids’ brand made by the guys who made JibJab.


A now-familiar story: Investors say they overvalued a high-flying digital publisher.


Redef CEO Jason Hirschhorn watches a lot of TV and he says Netflix has sucked him into watching less of everything else.


Big US publishers already make money from Amazon’s “affiliate” business. Amazon may pay them upfront to expand.


“It will always come back to bite you.”


A report from YouTube’s glitzy sales event in New York City, where “responsibility” is important but Daddy Yankee is even more important.

The TV guys want to keep selling you TV you don’t watch. It won’t work.


Lying is still being recast as “reviv[ing] an inaccurate refrain.”


Haskell took up the reins of New York Magazine this year after its 15-year editor Adam Moss stepped away.


Angwin was fired Monday evening, and most of her staff resigned in solidarity. “I have to brush up on my coup literature,” she joked.


Gardner said Angwin “is going out and just making up an entirely whole-cloth kind of theme around this advocacy thing.”


Another casualty of Facebook and Google’s advertising duopoly.


Hempel joined the site’s editorial team this year after 17 years at magazines like Businessweek, Fortune, and Wired.


The streaming company added 9.6 million subscribers last quarter — and it says it isn’t worried about Apple or Disney.


In a crowded field, it pays off to say “yes” to everything and get attention.


There’s no algorithm for creativity yet, Sapan says on the latest Recode Media.


All 335 PBS stations use federal funding, but the ones that depend on it are largely in Trump country.


“He’s just being a freak.”


Bob Iger in 2015: “We look at Netflix as more friend than foe.” Now it’s a very expensive war.


Yellin is trying to use her Instagram feed to offer people video news “without a panic attack.”


His first interview post-#MeToo included a pretty sexist assessment of the 2020 field.


Apple Music has eclipsed Spotify in the US. Now Apple wants to do the same thing in news, games, and video.


New Conde Nast boss Roger Lynch comes from Pandora and Sling.


Snapchat games, new shows, and more augmented reality.
Why an “out-of-the-closet elitist” rails against the “ruling class.”