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Until recently, almost every edition included a pouting selfie of Ms. Sundberg, even if the headline was about Goldman Sachs interns. (“There’s a lot of guys,” she said of her subscriber base.) Feed Me is preoccupied with a certain slice of millennial culture in New York City. The restaurants they patronize, the media they consume,…
Former New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees said he’d like to join an NFL broadcast team as a game analyst, and hinted he’s already in talks with media companies for a role. Brees signed a multiyear contract with NBC Sports in 2020, but only spent a year as an NFL studio analyst before leaving the…
President Trump amplified unfounded claims on Thursday that the government had been paying news media outlets to generate positive coverage of Democrats. The conspiracy theories appear to have been generated by records showing payments for something much more innocuous: subscriptions. Mr. Trump said on his Truth Social site that “billions of dollars” from U.S.A.I.D. and…
You might even call it a Disney renaissance. After a period of turmoil — culture war spats, whipsawing operating strategies, layoffs, proxy campaigns by activist investors for board seats and strikes in Hollywood, to name just a few of the challenges — Disney has returned to its stable, steamrolling self. Robert A. Iger, the chief…
WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense announced Friday night that it will institute a new “annual media rotation program” for its in-house press corps, effectively removing several major news outlets, including NBC News, from their Pentagon office spaces in favor of other outlets. In addition to NBC News, The New York Times, National Public Radio…
When Donald J. Trump sued CBS for $10 billion days before the 2024 election, accusing the company of deceptively editing a “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, many legal experts dismissed the litigation as a far-fetched attempt to punish an out-of-favor news outlet. Now Mr. Trump is back in the White House, and…
The stage is set for the first 2024 presidential debate between U.S. President Joe Biden and former U.S. President Donald Trump, in Atlanta on June 26, 2024. John Nowak | CNN | Via Reuters Warner Bros. Discovery’s CNN announced Thursday it is cutting about 6% of its total staff, or about 210 employees, as it…
Just a week into 2025, the media industry got its first consequential transaction: The Walt Disney Company is buying 70 percent of Fubo, the video service that had sued to block the media giant’s plan to create Venu, a sports streaming joint venture with Fox and Warner Bros. Discovery. The agreement, which was announced Monday,…
Editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes Courtesy of Ann Telnaes A Washington Post cartoonist has quit her role at the paper, saying that her bosses blocked publication of a satirical cartoon that depicted billionaires, including one resembling Post owner Jeff Bezos, kneeling before President-elect Donald Trump. Ann Telnaes, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, said in a blog post…