With Cuts At Vice, Quartz And Buzzfeed, Even Media's Savviest Digital Players Are Hurting
Companies that aimed to find a new fiscal model are hit by the same crisis of ad revenue as newspapers.
Companies that aimed to find a new fiscal model are hit by the same crisis of ad revenue as newspapers.
The podcast built a loyal audience. So did its hosts. But in the past month, the "Call Her Daddy" empire has tumbled, exposing the inevitable issues media companies face when their star employees morph into powerful influencers.
One America News is the straight truth for Trump fans and completely surreal for everyone else.
Stephanie Ruhle — a senior business correspondent on NBC News — showed off her ability to juggle being an on-camera news reporter with her responsibilities as a mom behind the scenes.
"The Last Dance" was entertaining and gave us a glimpse inside Michael Jordan and the 1998 Chicago Bulls. But when it came to Jerry Krause, the documentary could be downright cruel.
He has delivered revelatory reporting on some of the defining stories of our time. But a close examination reveals the weaknesses in what may be called an era of resistance journalism.
"The Last Dance" solidifies the truth about MJ and there's nothing romantic about it.
You'd think after doing something a couple thousand times the bosses would have the process down.
The New York Times dramatically illustrated the enormity of the economic downturn on their front page Saturday, showing how job losses in the United States from April were the worst since The Great Depression with this stunning infographic.
From MJ and Kobe's budding relationship to the trash-talking of the Dream Team, the longtime broadcaster shares the best memories from his time with the 1990s Bulls.
Rather than dominating the news cycle, former Senate staffer Tara Reade's recent allegation that former Vice President Joe Biden sexually assaulted her has been slow to receive coverage in many outlets.
With news outlets in crisis, some countries are turning to Big Tech to save them. That's trickier than it sounds.
Ever since Jordan took his place at the top of the NBA, basketball fans have been clamoring for a successor. A few players have come close, but many — and we mean many — have had to deal with the moniker.
Photos aren't very good at conveying depth perception, meaning social distance shaming via social media can be misleading.
The fact that a lot of journalists have to contend with the situations of working from home have elevated news bloopers last month to a whole other level.
They spent silly amounts of money on content and then seemed to focus the "technology" money on a completely pointless and weird setup where the orientation of your devices changes what you see.
Brody the dog wanted his owner's attention and he knew he was going to get it, one way or another.
The stakes are high for the media in the case of a sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden.
Breaking news: this mashup is unexpected, but fantastic.
Financial Times reporter Mark Di Stefano allegedly spied on Zoom meetings at rival newspapers to get scoops on staff cuts and furloughs due to the coronavirus pandemic — and did a comically bad job of covering his tracks.
New office dress code: business on top, party on the bottom.
The upstart cable network beat the Big Three in reporting on the 1981 assassination attempt, though it —along with its broadcast rivals — made a major mistake amid the studio chaos, an early sign of the perils of breaking news on TV.
On Twitter Sunday, Donald Trump said journalists investigating his administration should have their "Noble" prizes given back. CNN TV journalist Don Lemon's response to that is what we're all feeling at this point.
The Gazette has partnered with local school districts to distribute educational material and it created a kids page to keep younger readers entertained.
The theatrical flourishes and lavish lifestyles of the great media figures of a generation seem ill suited to the moment.
It would seem that a good way to earn a powerful rebuke on the front page your state's largest newspaper is to suggest that your city act as a "control group" for the effects of reopening in a pandemic.
There's much about the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak that scientists are still trying to discover. But animosity between the United States and China — and a bellicose American president — have made it harder to find the truth.
Just because your work environment is collapsing around you doesn't mean you have to stop reporting.
Sophisticated new research links Hannity's coronavirus misinformation to "a greater number of Covid-19 cases and deaths."
The past few weeks have seen a large number of new domain registrations beginning with the word "reopen" and ending with U.S. city or state names.
The 8-Bit Guy shows us the 108 types of storage media that we used to store data and you have to wonder what some designers were thinking.
Alyson McClaran said one of the anti-lockdown protesters pushed his car against a man in scrubs who was peacefully blocking protesters in Denver.
The website's features can lead people unwittingly to scary places.
The spike in views of coronavirus coverage is falling away — but it's vital that journalists hold the public's attention if we're going to keep the pandemic at bay.
Here's another unexpected outcome of working from home: sometimes when you're filming live segments in your bathroom, your naked spouse might also be in the shot.
Watching President Donald Trump and his task force in person was enormously revealing.
It's cloudy with 100% chance of a drum solo in the afternoon.
The platform empowers voices — and misinformation.
The investigation into Chinese political elites would "wipe out everything we've tried to build there," Matthew Winkler, Bloomberg's editor-in-chief at the time, said on audiotape obtained by NPR.
Concerned Democrats compare the right's advantage on YouTube to its dominance of talk radio.
The former CEO thought he was riding into the sunset. Now he's reasserting control and reimagining Disney as a company with fewer employees and more thermometers.
It was one of their biggest Canadian scoops. They didn't know they were being conned.
By bringing together some of the biggest celebrity names for off-beat streaming shows, Jeffrey Katzenberg's new ventture is odd and confusing.
From an encounter with the notorious Instagram influencer, one writer explores the past, present and future of influencerdom.
News outlets can't get enough of these stories. The saturation level raises an uncomfortable question: is our coverage part of the problem?
He wants to show Americans what Covid-19 looks like. He should show them what a sick day looks like.
Short-form premium video is here to stay.
"When Trump likes something that much, it's an immediate red flag."
Democrats and the media are the real downplayers of the coronavirus, claim two of Fox's biggest stars who spent weeks peddling dismissive talking points about the pandemic.
Now through April 30th, all 10 classes available at the Nikon School can be streamed for free. The classes are normally priced anywhere between $15 to $50 each.
India's government has pressured advertisers and even shut down channels to shape the information that 1.3 billion Indians receive. It's part of a wider assault on dissent.
Looking back at the terrifying, censored coverage of the 1918 Spanish flu.
Meet one of the world's most
prolific writers of disinformation.
The Fox Business Network announced on Friday that it had parted ways with Trish Regan, the conservative news host who ignited controversy earlier this month when she dismissed the coronavirus pandemic as a conspiracy to throw President Trump out of office.
Even the coronavirus can't stop the internet's favorite cooking shows. Here's how Bon Appétit's Test Kitchen whipped up a plan to keep filming BA series like "It's Alive with Brad" while they're all stuck inside their own homes.
It took three months and over 12 million blocks to build.
The cult quarterly helped set the pace for the upwardly mobile, Instagram-perfect 2010s lifestyle. Off the page, its creators' lives have been somewhat messier.
From March Madness to Major League Baseball, sporting events have been suspended, postponed, and outright cancelled to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The result for is an indefinite shutdown that has left ESPN facing a vast programming void.
After being sent to a hospital, a doctor concluded that TV reporter Rachelle al-Husseini was suffering from fatigue and does not show symptoms of COVID-19.
When I became a journalist, I stumbled into the greatest job in the world. But now, its future is uncertain.