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Media industry
fromwww.mediaite.com
17 hours ago

Scott Galloway Sounds the Death Knell for Cable News: This Business Is Not Coming Back'

Cable news is a declining industry unlikely to recover; survival requires consolidation, aggressive cost-cutting, and abandoning expensive, cosmetically driven strategies.
Marketing tech
fromExchangewire
4 days ago

The Stack: Legal Wins and Digital Shifts

Regulators fined and sued major tech and media firms, media consolidation accelerated, and AI advancements prompted new safety rules and platform controls globally.
Television
fromVulture
4 days ago

Yesterday's Fishwrap

The Paper portrays the collapse of local journalism and post-truth drift, showing how renewed local civic attention can restore community connection and purpose.
Podcast
fromVulture
1 week ago

Can There Ever Be a Podcast Canon?

Ambitious narrative audio podcasts have declined while video-first talk formats and celebrity-driven appearances now dominate the podcast landscape.
fromAbove the Law
1 week ago

Integrity, Intelligence, Incorruptibility: You Might Call It Old-Fashioned, I Just Call It Above The Law - Above the Law

Almost immediately I began to get intensely pressured about the contents of my columns, not from anyone within ATL, but from the partnership at the law firm where I was then employed. My God, what if someone realized their lawyer wasn't the intellectual equivalent of a genital-less Ken doll and was instead a real, live person with agency who actually had opinions about things?
Media industry
fromTruthout
2 weeks ago

Trump Rails Against ABC, NBC, Suggests They Should Lose Broadcast Licenses

As US President Donald Trump late on Sunday lashed out against the American media and threatened to pull broadcasting licenses from networks for their alleged "biased" coverage of him, media experts said the danger to the news media lies partially in corporate outlets' potential capitulation to the Trump administration.
US politics
#county-politics
fromPortland Mercury
2 weeks ago
Portland

YOUR SUNDAY READING LIST: Political Shenanigans, Oregon's Shrinking Newspapers, and the Heroes Keeping Portland Weird

Conflicts of interest in county politics, media consolidation impacts, cultural events, and entertainment reviews dominated Portland's news this week.
fromPortland Mercury
2 weeks ago
Portland

YOUR SUNDAY READING LIST: Political Shenanigans Lead to Unemployment, Oregon's Shrinking Newspapers, and the Heroes Keeping Portland Weird

County commissioner's staffer fired for leading Future Portland PAC while managing commissioner communications after organizing PAC event during work hours.
fromPortland Mercury
2 weeks ago
Portland

YOUR SUNDAY READING LIST: Political Shenanigans, Oregon's Shrinking Newspapers, and the Heroes Keeping Portland Weird

fromPortland Mercury
2 weeks ago
Portland

YOUR SUNDAY READING LIST: Political Shenanigans Lead to Unemployment, Oregon's Shrinking Newspapers, and the Heroes Keeping Portland Weird

Television
fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

Nexstar Media Group is buying broadcast rival Tegna in $6.2 billion deal

Nexstar Media Group will acquire Tegna for $6.2 billion, consolidating major U.S. local television operations and networks.
E-Commerce
fromDigiday
3 weeks ago

Two agencies merge with PE help to grab a larger share of a maturing marketplace

Podean is acquiring Commerce Canal to create the largest independent marketplace agency.
US politics
fromTruthout
1 month ago

Trump's FCC Considers Supercharging Corporate TV Consolidation

FCC Chair Brendan Carr is accused of undermining local TV ownership rules to benefit corporate media,
Television
fromBusiness Matters
1 month ago

Colbert gets cancelled - and with him, satire itself

The cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert signifies political appeasement disguised as a financial decision rather than a genuine assessment of its viewership and value.
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