In 2026, my prediction (and hope) is that the outlets that matter most to democracy move away from reflexive "gotcha" coverage of politicians and toward a practice that centers voters' lived experience, allows idealism back into the frame, and treats accountability as something deeper than a takedown. Learning to see through voters' eyes At least twice in my career, I have had to cover the unexpected rise of an Indian male politician.
'They're like an invasive species,' one source said. 'They overpower all the resources and make the businesses in those neighborhoods vulnerable. That's where dollar stores can thrive. No matter what community, the cause of food deserts stem from one route, and that's economic disinvestment in vulnerable communities.' Wright's work, which , shows the approach of the nonprofit, Black-led national newsroom with local newsrooms in Atlanta and Gary, Indiana.
"Not only is it 'over,' it was never a thing," an insider told People. "Aoki is learning to navigate her private life in a public sphere. And that can be difficult. However, Kimora was concerned to see her daughter in that kind of relationship due to what she herself went through. When Amanda asked Kimora what her "reaction" was to Aoki and Vittorio's romance, the mom of five replied, "I let my kids make their own mistakes...
I know there are tons of ways to operationalize and measure trust, but trust, at its core, is a belief that someone or something will live up to their proclaimed commitments. I've surveyed people all over the United States (with a hyperfocus on vulnerable communities in the Midwest), and there's a few things that are clear. First, trust is a universal challenge, and people don't trust a lot of things right now.
Anti-media ideologues like Elon Musk love to deploy disempowering language like " you are the media now " to assist in their long-term project of eroding the media's institutional authority. But thinking about the media that broke through in 2025, it really was the weird and non-traditional stuff that triumphed, from the work of Lane Kiffin obsessive Ben Garrett to white nationalist Nick Fuentes lamenting the " low IQ antisemitism" of podcaster Candace Owens, thus kicking off his " generational run."
Every community relies on infrastructure - roads, power grids, water systems. Public media is no different. We've spent decades building one of the most remarkable content networks in the world: a constellation of local newsrooms, national shows, and independent creators. But it rests on infrastructure built for a different era: satellite distribution, analog assumptions, fragmented digital tools, FM carve-outs, and a thicket of vendor relationships that favor scale and capital over mission.
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The 24-hour news channel is conspicuously absent from the media entities that Netflix said on Friday it planned to acquire in its proposed takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Instead, CNN, along with old-line cable networks like TNT, Discovery, HGTV and the Food Network, will be spun off into a separate publicly traded company that, by next year, will be called Discovery Global. Gunnar Wiedenfels, the chief financial officer of Warner Bros. Discovery, will lead the new company.
I can't begin to list them all, but I do need to thank the crew that held the ring with me these last few hard months. Tinbete Ermyas, Libby Franklin, Monica Bushman, Laura Lee, A.D. Quig, Jessica Reedy, Priska Neely, our editor Sarah Handel, director Gwen Outen, senior producer Scott Cameron, senior supervising producer Carline Watson. And we do not get on or off the air without our techs.
CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss poached ABC News reporter Matt Gutman on Friday, months after his on-air comments about Charlie Kirk's alleged assassin triggered backlash from many on the right. Weiss was previously rumored to be eying Gutman for the role of CBS Evening News anchor. The storied show's two co-anchors Maurice DuBois and John Dickerson both announced their resignations in recent months.
It's always best to take a sceptical view of the constant flow of BBC-bashing newspaper stories, which are often simply bogus outrage expressed for commercial gain. Even the war-on-woke, cod-ideological stuff Clive Myrie INSISTS hamsters can breastfeed human robots the bits that make you want to smear your face with greengage jam and weep for England, our England, with its meadows, its shadows, its curates made entirely from beef.
Consistent with the United States' continued slide into an economy powered almost entirely by LLM slop, financialization, and ever-pervasive exploitative gambling, "prediction market app" Kalshi "entered into an official partnership" with CNN this week to bring their "data to CNN's journalism across its television, digital and social channels." Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones.
The acquisition marks a dramatic strategic shift for Netflix, which has never made a deal of this scope. The streaming pioneer grew to become Hollywood's most valuable company, without the benefit of a library or studio, by licensing programs from others and then expanding into original content. With the purchase, Netflix becomes owner of the HBO network, along with its library of hit shows like The Sopranos and TheWhite Lotus.
Today, Fubo announced that monthly prices for some of its "Live TV" subscription plans, which include hundreds of channels, including non-sports ones like FX and The Disney Channel, will be up to 14.8 percent cheaper. The new pricing starts with "bill cycle dates on or after January 1, 2026," Fubo said. Here are the new prices: Essential: $74 per month (previously $85/month) Pro: $75/month (previously $85/month) Elite: $84/month (previously $95/month)
