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  1. the power issue
    Can the Media Survive?Big tech, feckless owners, cord-cutters, restive staff, smaller audiences … and the return of print?
    By Charlotte Klein
  2. 2024 election
    Christopher Rufo’s Big CampaignCan the conservative journalist-activist make a new counter-elite?
    By Simon van Zuylen-Wood
  3. roundup
    Who Won Kamala Harris’s Fox News Interview With Bret Baier?A look at some of the post-interview commentary.
    By Chas Danner
  4. the money game
    The Wall Street Journal Is Doing Great After the Media ApocalypseUnder its new editor, the news outlet is adding a lot of subscribers and focusing on a new strategy.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  5. the money game
    How to Buy a PresidentDonald Trump’s joke of a media company is also a $6 billion meme stock — and an unprecedented opportunity for corruption.
    By David Freedlander
  6. screen time
    AI Chatbots Have a Donald Trump ProblemDoes big tech see the news media as a convenient solution?
    By John Herrman
  7. what we know
    Will Lewis hosting an all-hands meeting at the Washington Post after announcing major shakeups at the publication.
    Can Will Lewis Survive at the Washington Post?A guide to the ongoing drama and unfolding revelations.
    By Chas Danner
  8. screen time
    The Other Big Problem With AI SearchWhat if plagiarism is the whole product?
    By John Herrman
  9. on with kara swisher
    Marques Brownlee and Walt Mossberg on Trustworthy Tech ReviewsThe two titans of tech reviewing talk shop on the latest episode of On With Kara Swisher.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  10. the media
    Joanna Coles in New York, on April 14, 2024.
    Can Joanna Coles Tame the Daily Beast?The uneasy marriage of a magazine legend and a scoop machine.
    By Justin Miller
  11. the media
    Mehdi Hasan Wants to Debate YouHis aggressive interviewing style landed him a Sunday show on MSNBC. Until he started talking about Palestine.
    By E. Alex Jung
  12. screen time
    How Product Recommendations Broke GoogleAnd ate the internet in the process.
    By John Herrman
  13. encounter
    Salman Rushdie Parties AgainA defiant celebration of Knife caps a physical (and reputational) comeback.
    By Simon van Zuylen-Wood
  14. the media
    Entrepreneur Manoj Bhargava Launches Electricity-Generating Bicycle
    Sports Illustrated’s Ex-Publisher Was a Transphobic ‘Gangster’: SuitThe weird mudslinging saga of the venerable magazine is now the subject of a lawsuit.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  15. the media
    Meet the Press - Season 77
    NBC Forgot What Journalism Is ForThe news outlet never should have hired Ronna McDaniel.
    By Sarah Jones
  16. the media
    Andrew Huberman’s Mechanisms of ControlThe private and public seductions of the world’s biggest pop neuroscientist.
    By Kerry Howley
  17. the media
    Jeff Zucker’s Fleet Street MisadventureThe former CNN and NBC boss wants a new media empire. Is that even possible in 2024?
    By Michael Wolff
  18. what we know
    What Elon Musk Told Don Lemon About Ketamine, Racism, and TrumpThe contentious interview, which prompted Musk to cancel Lemon’s X contract, covered ketamine, hate speech, and much more.
    By Chas Danner
  19. the media
    The Semafor Media Summit
    How The Messenger Bled Out $50 MillionBonkers spending on food, travel, and salaries couldn’t save a 2013-era idea in a 2024 world.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  20. the media
    Sports Illustrated’s $10 Million MysteryThere was plenty of cash to keep the venerable sports magazine alive. Why did its parent company, Arena Group, choose not to?
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  21. the media
    Greed Killed Sports IllustratedIts corporate parents siphoned $60 million from the magazine in four years.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  22. the money game
    BuzzFeed’s ‘Dire’ Debt ProblemThe media company borrowed a lot of money to grow. Now the bill is coming due.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  23. first person
    Tom Scocca: Unraveling My Medical MysteryThe strangest things happen to other people’s bodies. Then they began happening to my own.
    By Tom Scocca
  24. screen time
    What Do AI Companies Want With the Media?The big deal OpenAI just inked with Axel Springer offers a glimpse of how AI and the media might eventually intersect.
    By John Herrman
  25. past is prologue
    An Oral History of Throwing Shoes at George W. Bush, 15 Years LaterRevisiting the viral protest by an Iraqi journalist against a U.S. president.
    By Jordan Heller
  26. torn up and apart
    92NY Splits With the Cultural EliteA venerable institution digs in.
    By Simon van Zuylen-Wood
  27. torn up and apart
    Israel, Gaza, and the Fracturing of the Intellectual Left“A segment of the left’s moral compass seems to have broken.”
    By Ryu Spaeth
  28. the media
    Shams Charania’s Scoop DreamsHe tweeted his way to the top of the NBA reporting world. He might be the future of sports journalism.
    By Reeves Wiedeman
  29. the city politic
    Some Advice to Eric Adams on Handling EmergenciesBe there when necessary. Use the media smartly. And always tell the truth.
    By Errol Louis
  30. 2024 election
    Trump Supporters Hold "Stop The Steal" Rally In DC Amid Ratification Of Presidential Election
    Trump Wants His Enemies to Fear for Their LivesThe GOP front-runner is stoking threats of violence against anyone who threatens his power. It’s working.
    By Eric Levitz
  31. the discourse
    Cancel Culture Grows UpHave we figured out how to separate the repugnant from the merely unlucky?
    By Ryu Spaeth
  32. the media
    How the Rupert Murdoch Family Drama Inspired SuccessionAll the ways the Murdochs (and other real dysfunctional dynasties) mirror the Roys, from Fox News scandals to fake therapy to family score-settling.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  33. chapters
    How Rupert Murdoch Decided to Dump Tucker CarlsonThe 92-year-old media baron was fond of the Fox News host — but Donald Trump complicates everything.
    By Michael Wolff
  34. stop the presses
    The Journalist and the BillionaireWalter Isaacson, schmoozy icon of the Old Media elite, has written a biography of Elon Musk, who despises all of those things.
    By Shawn McCreesh
  35. screen time
    How AI Will Change the News Business: 3 TheoriesThe media industry is panicky. The tech companies are opaque. But some scenarios are starting to take shape.
    By John Herrman
  36. the money game
    Shane Smith Has a Secret Multimillion-Dollar Vice DealThe co-founder’s quiet current role as Vice’s big dealmaker means he is unlikely to leave anytime soon.
    By Kevin T. Dugan
  37. screen time
    The Nowhere ElectionIt’ll be every voter, and bot, for themselves.
    By John Herrman
  38. the media
    Can Chris Licht Survive at CNN?Staffers’ confidence is shaken. The CEO is vowing to “fight like hell to win back their trust.”
    By Brian Stelter
  39. screen time
    Will Google’s AI Plans Destroy the Media?The new bot-generated content is ominous for digital publishers. But the search giant might have a reason to pull back.
    By John Herrman
  40. on with kara swisher
    Lilly Singh on Internet Stardom and the Pressures of RepresentationKara Swisher talks to the multi-hyphenate creator about taking on old media, respecting internet stars, and not trying to be all things to all people.
    By Intelligencer Staff
  41. the media
    Vice Media Is Bankrupt and Will Soon Sell for CheapThe company filed for bankruptcy ahead of an expected $225 million sale to its creditors — just a fraction of what Vice was once valued at.
    By Matt Stieb
  42. liveblog
    Trump Allies Claim He Used CNN: Live UpdatesThe fallout over CNN’s Trump town hall is continuing.
    By Matt Stieb and Chas Danner
  43. liveblog
    Why Did Fox News Fire Tucker Carlson? What We Know.The host’s misogyny is a leading theory for his sudden downfall.
    By Matt Stieb, Chas Danner, and Benjamin Hart
  44. screen time
    The News Went ViralThe media bet its future on Facebook. Did it learn from that mistake?
    By John Herrman
  45. the media
    Which Tucker Carlson Succession Meme Is Right for You?Failing to signal that you’re in on the joke just isn’t an option.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  46. stop the presses
    Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon’s Same-Day DemiseTwo cable-news divas finally get kicked to the curb.
    By Shawn McCreesh
  47. fox news
    Fox News Could Be Just as Racist Without Tucker CarlsonThe host is gone, but his audience’s appetite for white-nationalist propaganda remains.
    By Eric Levitz
  48. the media
    Don Lemon Is Reportedly a Misogynist Off-Camera, TooA new report details the CNN host’s alleged threat to a colleague after she got the job he wanted reporting abroad.
    By Matt Stieb
  49. the media
    Millennials Aren’t Killing ‘Objective’ News — the Market IsThe modern attention economy is an enemy of conscientious reporting and intellectual humility.
    By Eric Levitz
  50. early and often
    Liberals Shouldn’t Fear Ron DeSantisThe Florida governor may be popular for now. But his support for slashing Social Security and banning abortion will catch up with him eventually.
    By Eric Levitz
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