America’s top telecom giant nurtured OAN, the pro-Trump news channel now at the center of a bitter national divide over politics and truth.

Axios: US Sec. of State Pompeo alleges that China threatened to interfere in US journalists' work in Hong Kong and warned doing so may risk Hong Kong's status with US

Blocking access to key law enforcement data hinders critical accountability efforts by journalists and researchers and ultimately limits discourse on public safety.

Jeremy Barr / Hollywood Reporter: Fox News host Sean Hannity joined colleague Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night in retracting story alleging CNN had scripted a high school student's question

Justin Baragona / Mediaite: CNN issues statement in support of reporter Jim Acosta, following latest attack from Spicer

Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: Longtime Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer, who currently co-hosts America's Newsroom in the morning, is taking over the 3PM slot previously held by Shepard Smith

Drew Harwell / Washington Post: A Washington Post spokesperson says the company has decided to pause advertising on X, after Elon Musk's amplification of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory

Dave Itzkoff / New York Times: Jimmy Fallon's ratings decline in Trump era, with his show losing nearly 1M viewers

Kerry Flynn / CNN: The Atlantic has added 325,000 paid subscribers since launching a paywall a year ago; 20,000+ signed up over last weekend after Jeffrey Goldberg's post on Trump

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney: Trump budget cuts would cause “the collapse of the public media system itself,” says CPB CEO

Byline Times: Investigation: GB News' Dan Wootton used fake online identities from 2008 to 2018 to bribe media executives and others into sharing compromising sexual material

Reuters: Sources: Elon Musk has a new Twitter CEO lined up and offered monetizing ideas, like charging websites for quoting or embedding tweets from verified accounts

Howard Kurtz / Fox News: In her new book “Merchants of Truth”, former NYT Executive Editor Jill Abramson says the paper has become “unmistakably anti-Trump” under Dean Baquet

Erik Wemple / Washington Post: None of the major US media outlets that predicted a “red wave” at the midterms regret the prediction or seem to be holding discussions on improving the coverage

A note from BuzzFeed News' editor in chief Mark Schoofs on Friday disclosed the issue

Adi Robertson / The Verge: The FTC proposes banning difficult-to-cancel subscriptions via “click to cancel” rules requiring companies to make ending a subscription as simple as signing up

Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Atlantic: A look at video site Rumble, which has been on an upward trajectory since H2 2020, when right-wing star Dan Bongino moved from YouTube and took an equity stake

The Daily Beast: Sources: Shep Smith's plunging ratings at CNBC, averaging just 197,000 viewers in June, have fostered internal turmoil, including “regular tantrums” from Smith

Hollywood Reporter: Source: Quentin Tarantino declines to recut his movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, after China's regulators blocked the film's release date of Oct. 25

Financial troubles have forced Maker Media, the company behind crafting publication MAKE: magazine as well as the science and art festival Maker Faire, to

Anumita Kaur / Washington Post: The Washington Post, CBS, CNN, Politico, ABC, Axios, Gannett, and others demand the January 6 footage that the House speaker exclusively gave to Tucker Carlson

Donna Brazile, the former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, will join Fox News as a contributor.

CNN: Paris Hilton's 11:11 Media suspends an ad campaign on X one month after announcing a partnership with X; it's unclear whether the partnership is still on

Paris Martineau / The Outline: Medium suspends the accounts of alt-right personalities Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, and Laura Loomer, after updating policy to tackle disinformation

Max Tani / Semafor: Sources: NBC News suspended Ben Collins from covering Elon Musk on NBC and MSNBC for criticism of Musk earlier in December deemed not editorially appropriate

An anti-Robert Mueller, anti-FBI fervor is intensifying among Trump supporters -- partly thanks to a campaign by Fox News and other conservative media sources.

Will Oremus / Washington Post: Elon Musk tweets that the US media is “racist against whites & Asians”, in reply to a tweet that is sympathetic to Scott Adams' rant against Black people

Jon Levine / The Wrap: ABC News apologizes after showing a chyron for about five seconds falsely stating Paul Manafort had pleaded guilty to manslaughter

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney: PBS to air CNN International's Amanpour on an interim basis to replace Charlie Rose, is finalizing plans for a public affairs program to follow Amanpour's slot

Brian Stelter / CNN: Sarah Sanders' primary legacy will be the death of daily press briefings, as she shortened and then did away with the meetings; the last briefing was March 11

Nicholas Confessore / New York Times: New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman opens investigation into Devumi, the company that sells millions of fake followers to celebs, journalists, others

Brian Stelter / CNN: In a letter to Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott, the head of the Anti-Defamation League called on her to fire Tucker Carlson for invoking “white replacement theory”

Katie Kilkenny / Hollywood Reporter: CA's AB 5 bill author says the law's 35-submission limit for journalists is “a little arbitrary”, as freelancers seek changes before the law takes effect Jan. 1

Toby Emmerich steps down as Warner Bros. Picture Group chairman, Michael De Luca expected to replace studio veteran.

Brian Stelter / CNN: CNN parent company WarnerMedia sends a cease-and-desist letter to the Trump campaign over new ad that WarnerMedia claims deceptively misuses CNN news coverage

Todd Spangler / Variety: Netflix says it plans to raise $800M in debt, bringing total long-term debt to $3B, says it will use the new debt for general corporate purposes

Dexter Filkins / New Yorker: Profile of Rana Ayyub, one of India's best-known investigative journalists reporting on Narendra Modi's India amid increasing anti-Muslim bigotry

This story, by Paul Armstrong / GigaOM, appeared on Mediagazer.

Philip Bump / Washington Post: Newsweek's Eichenwald implied a link among Trump, Wikileaks, and Russia that doesn't hold up

Richard Gonzales / NPR: NPR says it has decided not to use the word “lie” to describe Trump's false claims

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Spotify in early talks to buy The Ringer, founded by Bill Simmons, which has a podcast network that had revenue of $15M+ in 2018

The Bankman-Fried industrial complex is imploding, with massive turmoil brewing for the donor who was seen as the Democratic Party’s next great hope. Does all of that money just disappear?

Alex Yablon / The Trace: In court filing, NRA says it may be forced to close NRATV since it's been unable to get media liability insurance due to pressure from Cuomo on insurance firms

Aaron Rupar / Vox: CNN booked Corey Lewandowski for an interview just hours after telling Congress he has “no obligation to be honest with the media”

Tim Mak / The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak: NPR Investigative Correspondent Tim Mak launches The Counteroffensive, a newsletter covering Russia's war in Ukraine, after leaving as part of NPR's...

Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times: Sources: Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are expected to sit for depositions as soon as this month in Dominion's suit against Fox, and there were no settlement talks

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney: In the Trump era, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has started beating Fox News

Hamish McKenzie / On Substack: Substack sets a goal of making the 2024 US election “the Substack Election” and hires publicist and producer Catherine Valentine to lead politics initiatives

Breitbart: Bannon returns to Breitbart News as executive chairman, led Friday evening editorial meeting

Katie Robertson / New York Times: Sources: NY Post editors tell staff not to use reporting from CNN, MSNBC, NYT, and WaPo as the sole basis for any Post article without independent confirmation

David Beard / Poynter: Craigslist founder Craig Newmark donates $1M to Mother Jones magazine to finance reporting around misinformation and fake news, more

Brian Stelter / CNN: Jen Psaki held her last briefing as White House press secretary on May 13, her 224th in ~16 months, more than all of Donald Trump's press secretaries combined

New York Times: Sources: Twitter keeps missing internal weekly ad targets, including US ad revenue 80% below expectations for the week of the World Cup's November 20 start

Oliver Darcy / CNN: The White House calls on Fox News to correct coverage of bribery claims against Biden by an informant now charged with lying; source: Fox declines to make fixes

The Irish News: Lyra McKee, Mediagazer editor, freelance journalist, and writer who wrote about the legacy of Northern Ireland's Troubles, was killed amid violence in Derry, NI

Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post: CNN should sue the White House for taking away Jim Acosta's press pass under a false pretext, and press-rights groups and media outlets should join in

@wirecutterunion: Wirecutter Union reaches a deal that includes a $59K salary floor, the elimination of NDAs in cases of harassment, and monthly remote work reimbursements

Newspaper runs front-page statement and 64-word story stating it infringed copyright over letter to father

James Comey's book "A Higher Loyalty" will surely keep the streak alive.

Brian Stelter / CNN: Rupert Murdoch's New York Post and Wall Street Journal link Trump's January 6 inaction to a character failure; the Post calls him unworthy to be president again

Brian Stelter / CNN: CNN, The Texas Tribune, and 11 other news organizations sue the Texas Department of Public Safety to obtain Uvalde shooting records amid officials' stonewalling

Brian Cathcart / Byline Times: How the Mail on Sunday admitted that it published a defamatory story about a beautician, but still dragged her through court before losing the libel suit

Felix Salmon / Nieman Lab: Journalists must wrest control of headline writing from the social-optimization teams

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: Twitch temporarily bans President Trump for “hateful conduct” that was aired on stream, noting it does not make exceptions for “political or newsworthy content”

Ken Stone / Times of San Diego: A federal judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit against MSNBC and Rachel Maddow from One America News Network; OAN's owner says the network will appeal

Popular Information: Netflix said it would rethink filming in GA pending abortion law, but CEO has given $143K to GOP members of MO legislature, which passed an 8-week abortion ban

Nandini Jammi: Nandini Jammi, half of Sleeping Giants, says she worked well with Matt Rivitz early on, then Rivitz monopolized media interviews and diminished her work

New York Times: Sources: pro-Trump operatives have collected dossiers of damaging old social media posts by journalists and are releasing them in response to critical coverage

David Corn / Mother Jones: Tucker Carlson's long journey from a self-described truth-digging journalist to a promoter of conspiracy theories and a pro-MAGA, for-mega-profit propagandist

Aidan McLaughlin / Mediaite: Twitter permanently suspends James O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas, for violating rules on platform manipulation and spam

Bill Simmons doesn't think much of the royal couple

Claire Goforth / The Daily Dot: Peter Bright, also known as @DrPizza, who was an Ars Technica contributing writer, has been arrested on charges of soliciting sex with children online

News Corp and Google Agree To Global Partnership On News Long-term Deal Involves Payment For Premium Content For Google News Showcase; Will Yield Substantial Benefits For Journalism And Society New...

Patrick Frater / Variety: Netflix signs content deal with the production house of Bollywood megastar Shah Rukh Khan

Rana Ayyub / Washington Post: The Indian government is attempting to present journalists as instigators of violence as a journalist faces harassment and criminal charges over a tweet

Brian Stelter / CNNMoney: CBS says 60 Minutes head Jeff Fager will not return to work on Monday, extending his vacation while he waits for conclusion of the probe into harassment at CBS

Brian Stelter / CNN: Questioning Trump's stability based on his pattern of daily lies, distortions, and contradictions is reportorial, not political, in nature

Asawin Suebsaeng / Rolling Stone: Haberman's book: Tucker Carlson met Jared Kushner in February 2020 at the White House to demand clemency for Roger Stone; Trump pardoned Stone in December 2020

Washington Post Guild: Washington Post Guild issues scathing critique of the paper's suspension of Felicia Sonmez, says WaPo should let her return and provide a security detail

Louis Nelson / Politico: Former President George W. Bush says media is indispensable to democracy

Lawrence Bonk / Mediaite: Katie Way, the reporter who broke the Aziz Ansari story, sent HLN host Ashleigh Banfield an email insulting her appearance after Banfield criticized Way

John Rogers / Associated Press: Nick Ut, photographer behind Napalm Girl, will retire this month after 51 years with the AP

Gerry Smith / Bloomberg: Source: BuzzFeed has agreed to voluntarily recognize the BuzzFeed News union, following months of negotiations and a walkout by staffers last month

Brian Stelter / New York Magazine: Over 40 CNN staffers share their anger and fear after The Atlantic's 15,000-word defenestration of Chris Licht and the network announcing David Leavy as its COO

Irena Hwang / ProPublica: How a ProPublica data journalist with a bioinformatics background used public genomic sequencing data to track a salmonella outbreak in the US chicken industry

Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine: Trump's press briefings should be seen in full with all of his contradictions and incoherence because quotes in articles only help him articulate his worldview

Brian Stelter / CNN: Sources: Fox producers have been told to avoid booking some regular guests if the latter kept doing Newsmax appearances after being encouraged to stop