Media industry

Media industry

We've been locked out, banned, denied, restricted for more than 2 years. The Israeli government has refused to allow journalists into Gaza to report independently, to show the world the reality of war and this fragile ceasefire from every angle. It is long past time for Israel to lift this ban and let us in.

The progress we've made over the past 6+ months - from advancing our strategy to strengthening our portfolio and reorganizing our businesses to operate more efficiently and effectively - is a direct reflection of your hard work and commitment.

A record 129 journalists and media workers were killed in the course of their work in 2025, and two-thirds of them were killed by Israel, the Committee to Protect Journalists has said. It was the second straight year that killings set a record and the second straight year that Israel was responsible for two-thirds of them, the CPJ, a New York-based independent organisation that documents attacks on the press, said in its annual report.

A unified front against data fragmentation. As the industry's primary watchdog, MDA, which represents 56 companies including digital publishers, platforms, and agencies, is focused on delivering a single standard currency for Malaysian internet traffic. Nicholas Sagau, President of MDA and COO of REV Media Group, emphasized that these benchmarks are not just about numbers, but about the health of the marketplace.

You can call me a dork, but working in public radio was my dream as a teenager - and the hours I spent mapping out my career path and building up my résumé paid off by the time I was an adult. After graduating from college in 2019, I interned at NPR, then landed a job at my local public radio station. Within a few years, I'd worked my way up to being a beat reporter, the role I'd always wanted.

Of course I want you watching CNN and I want you listening to me on SiriusXM, but, my God, use the clicker. I don't go to bed without sampling all of the news and opinion that's all around me because it's so easy to get bunkered into, you know, a silo of your choosing and think you're getting competing opinions when, in fact, you're not.

It was wise of Omnicom to report its fourth-quarter and full-year 2025 earnings after the market closed on Wednesday, since its stock gained in after-hours trading - unlike Publicis, which got walloped by traders after its quite positive financial results. However, its results were neither spectacularly good nor terribly bad, with 2025 revenue up 10%, thanks in part to including one month of revenue from Interpublic Group, which it finished absorbing at the end of November. Foreign exchange values also goosed the revenue by $125 million, bringing total revenue for the year to $17.3 billion.

Just five years after Berkshire Hathaway sold all 31 of its papers and Warren Buffett deemed the industry "toast," the investor has rejoined a legion of billionaires with their money in media. A quarterly update the conglomerate filed with the SEC just revealed that Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway invested a whopping $351.7 million in The New York Times. Buffett, the legendary " Oracle of Omaha," had purchased 5.07 million shares in the 175-year-old paper at the end of 2025,

Observer's inaugural New Media Power List recognizes the individuals who are defining how information, influence and capital move in the digital age. This is not a list about celebrity or follower counts alone, but a rigorous assessment of who holds real power in the new media ecosystem: the creators building loyal audiences outside traditional structures, the builders designing the infrastructure everyone else depends on, and the intelligence leaders whose tools determine where billions of advertising and PR dollars flow.

NewsNation & YouTube/Megyn Kelly NewsNation host Chris Cuomo compared Megyn Kelly to a cockroach on Wednesday as their insult-laden feud continued to heat up. The feud broke out this week after Cuomo complained about sloppy influencers during a monologue on his show while displaying photos of Kelly on-air. Kelly shot back during a segment on her podcast The Megyn Kelly Show, Tuesday, calling Cuomo a douchebag and claiming that he had less viewers than I have fingers. Cuomo and Kelly continued to exchange insults on social media, Wednesday. Get over yourself, little hater. Odd language choice for a mom with young kids. Classy, snapped Cuomo on X in response Kelly calling him a douchebag.

Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

This recognition is a reminder of why public records laws have teeth - and why someone has to be willing to use them.

The investment thesis fits Buffett's lens precisely. The Times possesses an irreplaceable brand moat with 175 years of history, digital subscription revenues growing 14% annually, and gross margins stabilized around 48%, demonstrating the pricing power he has always prized in media. NYT has also diversified intelligently. Wordle became a cultural phenomenon. The Athletic acquisition brought the world's largest sports journalism operation into the fold. Cooking offers 25,000+ vetted recipes. This is a portfolio of habit-forming content products anchoring daily routines for millions.

Naru Force will focus on developing "social-first formats, owned platforms, and AI-assisted content ecosystems," and create unscripted formats and IP for emerging streaming apps, creator platforms and social media distribution. AI tools will be integrated "to optimise workflows across the development, production, and brand-matching processes." The first format from the company will be K-pop-themed, and launch across social channels before an in-app debut follows.

Writer Michael Tracey said his audio cut out right as he was being asked if he is paid by any of the men tied to Jeffrey Epstein during an appearance on Piers Morgan's YouTube show on Tuesday. Tracey who has cast doubt on many of the claims made by women who said they were victimized by Epstein was in the middle of a heated exchange with fellow Substack reporter Tara Palmeri over how the Epstein files have been covered when the technical difficulty happened.

Katherine Ryan's podcast is called Telling Everybody Everything, and she does. The comedian is honest to a fault: her comments are regularly reported out of context to create clickbait news stories that give people the wrong idea of what she meant and of her as a human, but she doesn't stop. Her commitment to truth, especially in the celebrity world she inhabits, is as unusual as it is admirable.

"Editing is as much about knowing and growing your team as it is about elevating their copy," said Kathleen McGrory, an editor with The New York Times Local Investigations Fellowship. "As an editor, a key part of your job is understanding what makes your reporters tick and helping them reach their goals beyond any one story. It requires open communication, deep trust and really listening."

I do want to point out what a scumbag Spike Lee is, Rosenberg said. I would go to a Knick game now and I'm not going to encourage any violence but somebody would probably have to stop me from running up to Spike Lee and just knocking his ass out. Yeah, I said it. He scoffed a moment later, This little pussy Spike Lee shows up to the NBA All-Star game wearing this pro-Palestine outfit.

It recently disclosed that India Times was the most-effective English language publisher on Facebook in terms of shares, ahead of NBC and Fox News (with the Daily Mail in seventh and the BBC in eighth). It analysed the optimum length of a story for maximum shares and found that the sweet spot for the New York Times audience is 1,021 words, but for the BBC it's 721 and for the Huffington Post it's 641.

Hasan Piker has built one of the largest online political audiences, reaching millions without newsroom oversight or traditional editorial constraints.