Shall Reporters go or Should They Stay?

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Article in Status by Oliver Darcy, 11/9/27

Headline: “The CBS-CNN Cashout”

Subhead: “Skydance’s buyout offers at CNN and CBS News are triggering an exodus of veteran staffers ahead of looming cuts. But the process hasn’t been without some unintended consequences, Status has learned.”

“For the past two weeks, many employees at Skydance’s CNN and CBS News have been weighing a difficult choice: take the buyout packages offered by management, or gamble on the round of forced layoffs expected to follow.

“The offers landed on October 26, just as newsrooms were heading into the frenetic final stretch of the midterms, which meant staffers had until Sunday to make a consequential decision about their futures while covering one of the biggest stories of the year, and with little certainty about what awaited them if they stayed. . .”

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https://www.status.news/p/cbs-news-cnn-buyouts-bari-weiss-mark-thompson-skydance

 

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Article in FAIR by Raina Lipsitz, 11/6/26

Headline:  “Corporate Media Warn Democrats of the Perils of Winning”

Subhead:  “Fool’s gold of midterms success”

“. . .The results call into question the knowledge and expertise of the corporate press, and some of their favorite political scientists and think tank experts. While conceding in its post-election analysis that ‘Democrats won in a lot of red states,’ NPR (11/4/26) then issued a muddled warning to Democrats regarding 2028: . .”

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https://fair.org/home/corporate-media-warn-democrats-of-the-perils-of-winning/

Is News a Gamble in the Future?

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Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Emily Bell and Heather Chaplin, 11/9/26

Headline: “The Future of Journalism When Prediction Markets ‘Financialize Everything’”

Subhead:  “Companies like Kalshi and Polymarket are reaping huge profits and reshaping journalism to fit their business interests.”

“. . .Kalshi and Polymarket have already cut deals with several big newsrooms, offering money and data in exchange for publicity. At the same time, one of their core promotional claims—that their products can reveal what’s happening more accurately than journalists or pollsters—represents a frontal assault on the very outlets they call “partners,” and on the journalists those organizations employ. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.cjr.org/kicker/the-future-of-journalism-when-prediction-markets-financialize-everything-kalshi-polymarket-profits-business-interests-reshape-journalism-knibbs-wired.php

Pay Extra, Spin Words of Wisdom Faster

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Article in The Washington Post by Beryl Kornfield, 11/9/26

Headline:  “Selling faster access to Tru mp’s posts helps triple his media company’s revenue”

Subhead:  “President Trump’s media company said its third-quarter revenue tripled from the same time last year.”
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“. . .In an earnings call on Monday, Trump Media & Technology Group, which owns Truth Social, announced $3 million in revenue, including $1.8 million from subscriptions to the Truth+ streaming platform and Truth API, a service the company launched in August to provide instant access to Trump’s Truth Social posts that has faced legal questions. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/11/09/selling-faster-access-trumps-posts-helps-triple-his-media-companys-revenue/

Guess Which News Group is to Blame?

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Article in The Hill by Dominick Mastrangelo, 11/4/26

Headline:  “Trump: Fox News ‘bears responsibility’ for GOP losses”

President Trump is seeking to blame Tuesday’s disastrous midterm election results for Republicans on Fox News, which he attacked repeatedly on social media before calling into the network on election night.

“ ‘Why does FoxNews have Bill de Blasio, the Worst Mayor in the History of New York City, on air, ranting and raving like a Lunatic,’ Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform after de Blasio appeared on the network to analyze Tuesday’s election results.

Read the full article at:

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/6197174-trump-fox-news-2026-midterms/

 

The Door is Closing on Salon

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Article in The Wrap by Benjamin Lindsay, 11/5/26

Headline: “Salon, Pioneering Digital News Website, Shutters After 31 Years”

Subhead:  “It’s difficult to find the right words for the end of something that has meant so much to so many people,” site leadership writes in an open letter”

“. . .Founded by a small group of journalists on an aspirational idea of “what journalism could be,” the site touted a “strong voice, a curiosity about the world and a belief that the internet could bring journalism and readers together in new ways.” Its founding editors helped pioneer the internet news medium that came “to define an entirely new era of publishing,” the letter reads. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/salon-shuts-down/

President Rage-Texts Live, On-Air Fox Host

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Article in Mediaite by David Gilmour, 11/3/26

Headline: “Greg Gutfeld Gets Angry Text From Trump While on Air: ‘You Wouldn’t Believe This One…’”

“President Donald Trump rage-texted Fox News host Greg Gutfeld during a live broadcast on Election Day, demanding that he deliver a blistering attack to co-host Jessica Tarlov, who had just been reporting on political spam bombarding Americans’ phones as the midterms approached. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/greg-gutfeld-gets-angry-text-from-trump-while-on-air-you-wouldnt-believe-this-one/

 

MAGA Media Pointing. . .

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Article in Media Matters by Noah VanDowe & Zachary Pleat, 11/5/26

Headline: “‘A clown show’: The right-wing media blame game over the midterms is full steam ahead”

Subhead: “Reeling from Republican losses, conservative hosts blamed each other, the party, and Donald Trump himself”

“Following the 2026 midterm elections, which resulted in massive Democratic victories to flip control of both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, as well as an end to decades of Republican dominance in Texas and other Southern and Midwestern states, right-wing media commentators wasted little time before searching for scapegoats. . .”

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https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/clown-show-right-wing-media-blame-game-over-midterms-full-steam-ahead

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Article in Status by Natalie Korach, 11/4/26

Headline:  “MAGA’s Midterm Meltdown”

Subhead: “After Democrats’ historic victory Tuesday night, MAGA Media figures are turning on one another over the GOP debacle – and telling Status the party must move on from Trump”

“. . .By the end of the night, of course, the picture looked dramatically different. Democrats had delivered a stunning rebuke of Republicans, flipping longtime GOP strongholds in the Senate, including Texas and South Carolina, and leaving right-wing media figures scrambling to explain how they had so badly misread the electorate. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://archive.ph/74jty#selection-639.0-679.104

Trump a Media Predator?

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Article in Reporters Without Borders by Staff, 11/4/26

Headline: “Donald Trump joins the 2026 Press Freedom Predators List”

Subhead: “To mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists on 2 November, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is profiling 33 ‘press freedom predators’ who targeted journalists . . .”

“After narrowly missing the cut last year, US President Donald Trump earned his spot on the 2026 Press Freedom Predators List as a result of his appalling record of attacks on the press after less than two years of his second term. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://rsf.org/en/2026-press-freedom-predators-list

AI and NYT Subscriptions?

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Article in The Wrap by A.j. Karz, 11/4/26

Headline:  “New York Times Faces AI Questions as Digital Subscriber Growth Shines”

Subhead:  “Publisher beats Wall Street expectations as CEO Meredith Kopit Levien addresses AI risks to its subscription business”

“. . .Even a strong quarter of subscriber growth couldn’t free New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien from questions about the risks that artificial intelligence poses to the publisher. . .”

“The strong results come amid an undercurrent of concern over the potential impact of AI, from Google’s AI summaries reducing the need to people to actually read stories to AI agents proactively canceling subscriptions in an effort to save their users money. . .”

Read the full article at:

https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/new-york-times-adds-420000-subscribers-as-q3-digital-revenue-rises/