A continuing news file on the media industry: acquisitions and investments, launches and closures, editorial layoffs and union agreements, platform policy changes affecting distribution, and senior appointments. Items note what the move implies about a company's finances or strategy. Read by people whose employer or competitors appear in it.
The divest-or-ban saga ended with a deal signed January 22, 2026: Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX each hold 15 percent, ByteDance 19.9 — and the audience barely flinched.
Amara Okonkwo · February 23, 2026
Meta's January 2025 switch to community notes cut funding to the third-party fact-checking network and changed what publishers' platform traffic is worth.
Amara Okonkwo · January 31, 2026
Licensing deals multiplied after Cloudflare's default AI-bot blocking in July 2025, Meta started signing in December, and referral decline stopped being a prediction.
Amara Okonkwo · January 8, 2026