hen Bob Woodward began interviewing Donald Trump during the pandemic, he found access to be unprecedented—disconcertingly so—despite Woodward having written critically of the former President in 2018. “I could call him anytime, he would call me,” Woodward says....
After the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Facebook META 2.43% parent Meta Platforms Inc. said it wanted to scale back how much political content it showed users. The company went further than almost anyone knew.The results of the effort are...
The Intercept, a progressive nonprofit investigative news outlet, is spinning 0ff as an independent nonprofit from its parent, First Look Media, according to a memo sent to staff obtained by Axios.Why it matters: The company had been planning to...
“Listen to the people who are talking about how to fix what’s wrong, not the ones who just work people into a snit over the problems. Listen to the people who have ideas about how to fix things, not...
The Federal Trade Commission is close to banning noncompete contracts.Those are the legal documents that media companies, especially local TV stations, force journalists to sign that keep them from working for competing stations, sometimes for up to a year....
More than a few submissions to our annual Predictions for Journalism series touched on generative AI this year.Some predicted the tech could be “a game-changer” for journalism, particularly resource-strapped local newsrooms. Others cautioned that producing convincing disinformation just got...
As the podcasting universe has matured in recent years it has picked up many of the trappings of more established media industries, ranging from a flourishing trade press to its very own awards show circuit. This past year, podcasting...
Last year, news outlets reported on a remarkable story: Two war crime researchers from the University of Amsterdam had catfished hundreds of Syrian intelligence officers and military officials who were loyal to the country’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad. In 2018,...
The credit crunch helped me into self-employment. Before the global financial meltdown, I was a full time employee and the deputy editor of Growing Business magazine. But then the banks fell over and the ad money dried up. In the summer...
The eagle that landed at The New York Times as its first logo 65 years ago flew in from a distant time and place.Arthur Hays Sulzberger (1891-1968), the publisher at the time, spotted a four-and-a-half-foot-tall pinewood eagle, carved around...
