Fox News Digital continued its dominance over other news brands in key metrics throughout the month of October, according to the latest Comscore data. Last month, Fox News Digital reached nearly 1.8 billion multiplatform views. The New York Times trailed in second with 1.4 billion, followed by CNN with 695 million. Fox News Digital trounced the competition in multiplatform minutes, topping more than 3.7 billion. Both CNN and The Times only reached 1.2 billion multiplatform minutes.
What made us think anyone would be interested? The answer is rarely simple. We constantly sift through news, linking trends, scouring reports, going yes, no, maybe. That's how we ended up emailing Pollon, a Vancouver-based journalist with deep knowledge of the mining sector. Could Trump's obsession with critical minerals illuminate his annexation talk about Canada? (Spoiler: yes.) But discerning, synthesizing, and connecting explains only part of how we decide.
You're a few questions into the job interview and something feels off. The candidate's answers are polished. (Maybe too polished.) There's a slight delay before each response. And their eyes keep drifting off camera. You're pretty sure ChatGPT is feeding them answers. Rebecca Knight is a journalist who writes about all things related to the changing nature of careers and the workplace.
Mr. Feisty himself will be voicing God in a new, 52-episode-long Fox News podcast that will guide "listeners through the life and teachings of Christ." It's a dream part for an actor who loves to say how he feels about stuff with the utmost authority ... except he already landed it. The podcast also features Kristen Bell as Mary Magdalene; she says her recording was for an audiobook from 15 years ago.
As I finally got to work on writing Defector's fifth Annual Report, I found myself noodling on some broader thoughts about the worker-owned media landscape. Tom said some sections would work as a standalone blog, and who am I to disagree with Defector's Editor-in-Chief? You can find the full version of the Year 5 Annual Report here, but below are my reflections on starting a worker-owned media company in 2020 vs. 2025, how Defector is hoping to help,
When Kim Min-seok gave the go-ahead in June 2016 to publish a 90-second clip of a children's song, he had no idea what he was unleashing. It became a global phenomenon, clocking up more than 16 billion views - YouTube's most watched video ever. That song was the incredibly catchy Baby Shark. Not only has it captivated toddlers and terrorised adults around the world, it laid the foundations for its creator Pinkfong to become a media business worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
To pass the time, David and Trevor compared hearing aids. One in slacks, one in jeans; one in purple polo shirt, one in purple button-down. Their wives nattered among each other, laughing, leaning in, touching the forearm of the other supportively. The men had already covered some important details: One had worked in insurance; one was in cattle ranching. Now they were talking earpiece specs and swapping tips on where to get the very best deals.
Musk said on an October 31 episode of the All-In tech and business podcast that his team instructed his company's chatbot, Grok, to go through the top 1 million Wikipedia articles and then add, modify and delete. So that means research the rest of the internet, whatever is publicly available, and correct the Wikipedia articles, fix mistakes, but also add a lot more context, he said on the podcast.
As BBC senior editors arrived at its New Broadcasting House headquarters in central London on Monday, the most pressing question was what had convinced Tim Davie, the corporation's director general, to quit suddenly. Like any good BBC drama, it was a plot twist no one had seen coming. As they assessed the brutal pressures that had finally proved too much for Davie, a second question soon arose.
RedBird had a previous attempt to buy the Telegraph rebuffed by politicians as it was majority-funded by Abu Dhabi's IMI group - which is owned in turn by the Abu Dhabi royal family. A law change meant that foreign sovereign wealth funds could take a maximum stake of 15% in newspapers or periodicals. The new bid complied with that rule, but it is understood that the government intended to submit the deal to regulatory review.
No, Carville didn't see anything about CNN with whom Cuomo remains locked in a legal battle or about any of the various people Cuomo is regularly beefing with but your humble writers and editors here at Mediaite. Screenshot Nope! he shouted shriveling his face. That's Dan Abrams. He used to work here. Now he's there. It's their own thing. Not up to our standard. Not up to the NewsNation standard. That's for sure. For sure!
Scooter Braun tried to buy OnlyFans but came down with a bit of anxiety when it was time to perform, according to a new report in The music mogul, longtime Taylor Swift antagonist, and current Sydney Sweeney agonist (that's a joke for my knows-a-bit-of-chemistry homies) led a purchasing group that valued OnlyFans at $8 billion. Braun was set to serve as the "face and brains" of the porn-adjacent platform - because after all, what OnlyFans user wouldn't want to close their eyes and think of that face?
CNN anchor Erica Hill was taken aback when a guest told her he understood what Megyn Kelly was trying to do when she dissected sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein's pedophilia, or lack thereof. Kelly has gone viral over a two-minute segment during which she argued that Epstein was not a pedophile, expanding on what an unnamed confidant told her. While describing Epstein as sick and disgusting, she still explored the difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old claiming Epstein was into the barely-legal type.
Publishers produce the content that makes streaming valuable, yet they carry the heaviest burden and earn the smallest share. Meanwhile, OEMs and streamers have tightened control of distribution and data. What began as a basic imbalance between supply and demand has evolved into a structure where the largest intermediaries set the rules and everyone else plays by them. Industry discussion often blames fraud, invalid traffic or unavoidable complexity.
Beehiiv may be known for the tools it provides journalists and experts who want to create independent newsletters, but the company is moving quickly into other businesses that executives believe will keep its creators from wanting to go anywhere else. Beehiiv on Thursday unveiled a new suite of tools that will help its creators build websites; sell products and services that range from eBooks to coaching; and host podcasts, among other activities.
Hollywood tried and failed to crack the microdrama code first. In 2020, Jeffrey Katzenberg launched Quibi with $1.75 billion in funding, A-list talent including Steven Spielberg and Guillermo del Toro, and episodes under 10 minutes designed for mobile viewing. Six months later, it shut down, having burned through over $1 billion. The service reached fewer than 1 million subscribers against a target of 7 million, with its content library sold to Roku for under $100 million.
A slick new civil rights-themed video promoting MSNBC's forced name change to MS NOW features paid black actors playing ordinary Americans, intercut with pensive shots of MSNBC's white primetime stars. The promotional spot, narrated by Rachel Maddow reading the Constitution, appears to be a ham-handed effort by MSNBC's new parent company, Versant, to cater to MSNBC's large black audiencethe largest in cable newswhen its primetime and morning anchor lineup is overwhelmingly white, led the Beacon's Collin Anderson and Thaleigha Rampersad before diving into the heart of the matter: It uses archival protest footage, video of Martin Luther King Jr., and Maddow's patriotic narration to portray MS NOW as a beacon of racial and social justice.
Our focus is on 2026. We have a big fight planned for February and a big fight hopefully against Tyson Fury next year. We may run out in 2025. We were just going to have a low key fight somewhere - if that is going to destroy the run of Mr Paul and make tens of millions of dollars in the process, then maybe. Nothing is confirmed yet.
