Media industry

Media industry

If you didn't know, Audible is gearing up to release a full-cast audio adaptation of all seven of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books. The project, set to roll out between November 2025 and May 2026, features over 200 voice actors - including Kit Harington, Ruth Wilson, James McAvoy, and Keira Knightley. It comes amid a sizable boycott of the franchise, sparked by backlash against J.K.'s anti-trans statements.

The broadcaster and national treasure doesn't need to win prizes to prove his popularity - he talks about his friendship with CMAT, being born for the radio, and his long road back to the national broadcaster

Here at Mediaite, we spend our days and nights chronicling what truly has become a fractured media environment. There are, of course, the many conflicts you see on air. And there are also the ones happening behind-the-scenes as networks, digital outlets, and big-ticket independent personalities all do battle to secure their place in an uncertain landscape.

"fair, fearless, and factual" reporting that "holds both American political parties to equal scrutiny"

The documentary Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink is now streaming on PBS through the end of the year, and I highly recommend it. Watching this film, viewers follow journalists as they battle vulture capitalist hedge funds. These hedge funds buy up local newspapers and gut their staff and resources. Finally, I understand what a hedge fund does!

Then, Rick Edmonds answered it, cutting through spin, jargon and numbers with vivid detail. "The company is so new that the signatures were drying yesterday morning on legal papers defining its financial structure, even as the deal to buy the Bulletin, which will be its first newspaper holding, was announced." It's an approach journalists and media watchers are used to from the Poynter Institute's longtime media business analyst. That story, though, ran in The Philadelphia Inquirer in April 1980.

Newstalk presenter moving to RTÉ, confirmed to be taking over the 'Liveline' spot Staff at Newstalk were informed last night of his departure RTÉ share details of schedule shake-up, which sees traditional programme timeslots shifted The Irish Independent reported earlier Cuddihy was in pole position for the gig after he left Newstalk, where he presented The Hard Shoulder, to make the move to Montrose. RTÉ confirmed the appointment this morning in a statement which also included details of a programme schedule shake-up.

They didn't know my story, or what I'd been going through over the past 20 years to try to pursue a family because I don't go out there and tell them my medical woes,

Mark Thompson's tenure at CNN has been quietly fascinating. Two years in, the British-born CEO remains something of an enigmarespected by staff, scrutinized by outsiders, and, by all accounts, remarkably calm in the eye of the storm. CNN, like all legacy media, faces a rapidly shifting landscape: cord-cutting, social platforms siphoning attention, AI reshaping journalism, and the relentless competition for viewers' trust.

Trumpism wants to capture your attention. And it won't hesitate to colonize, with the approval of its leader, all the world's main information outlets, streaming media and video game platforms. Emerging from the effervescent magma of the MAGA universe, a group of powerful businessmen are in orbit around Trump, fattening his businesses and helping him expand the reach of his ultraconservative rhetoric.

Before committing to working at his Greenville, North Carolina production studio, MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, starts some workers on roughly three-month contracts. During that trial period, internally called a vibe check, the company gives staffers an apartment and a rental car so they can focus on work without worrying about relocation. The objective is to "ensure you don't uproot your entire life and move to Greenville, North Carolina, and not work out," a former MrBeast staffer said.

1. Journalism that reports on the world as it actually is. 2. Journalism that is fair, fearless, and factual. 3. Journalism that respects our audience enough to tell the truth plainly - wherever it leads. 4. Journalism that makes sense of a noisy, confusing world. 5. Journalism that explains things clearly, without pretension or jargon. 6. Journalism that holds both American political parties to equal scrutiny. 7. Journalism that embraces a wide spectrum of views and voices so that the audience can contend with the best arguments on all sides of a debate.

not just to deliver the story to the families, but also to use our position and connections to benefit the families,