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.
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.
A third of US newspapers since 2005 are gone, more than 200 counties have no local news source at all, and the pattern of loss is not random — it tracks market size.
Amara Okonkwo · May 25, 2026
News Showcase deals expanded through 2021-2023 and then quietly wound down in market after market — the payments were programs, not infrastructure.
Amara Okonkwo · May 2, 2026
CNN launched All Access at $3.99 a month in October 2024, ending years of free-traffic orthodoxy at cable-news brands and pricing far below newspaper peers.
Colin Reyes · April 9, 2026
From the NYT's December 2023 suit against OpenAI to Dow Jones and the New York Post taking Perplexity to court, publishers chose litigation as a business strategy — with mixed results so far.
Amara Okonkwo · March 17, 2026
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