[VULTURE] Why Disney Fired 1,000 Employees Last Week — "In a world where Disney must compete with the Netflixes ... of the world, perhaps the Disney future that D'Amaro envisions looks more like a tech company than a family friendly entertainment giant."
[THE NEW YORK TIMES] NPR Receives $113 Million From 2 Gifts — "'I support NPR because an informed public is the bedrock of our society, and democracy requires strong, independent journalism.'" www.nytimes.com/2026...
[THE GUARDIAN] Condé Nast Will Close Its Women's Health Magazine, Self, After 47 Years — "Beyond editorial changes, the company is also restructuring internally to adapt to technological shifts."
[NPR] NPR Receives $113M in Charitable Gifts — "'This remarkable investment will enable NPR to continue to deliver the nation's finest public service journalism, meeting audiences where they are today and will be in the years to come.'" www.npr.org/2026/04/...
[THE NEW YORK TIMES] Condé Nast Shutters Self Magazine — "Self, the health and fitness publication that has been online-only since 2017, will cease to exist, and health and wellness content will be folded into other Condé brands like Allure and Glamour." www.nytimes.com/2026...
[DEREK THOMPSON] How 'Zombie Flow' Took Over Culture — "Entertainment and tech companies have gotten smarter about putting consumers into bastardized flow states that leavespeople feeling drained and sad rather than challenged and enlarged as selves." www.derekthompson.or...
EDITORIAL DIRECTOR / VOX (NYC or DC) : This looks like a great opportunity to oversee coverage plans and stories for some of the most important subjects today — climate change, energy, emerging technology, artificial intelligence, global health.
DISTRIBUTION ARCHITECTURE : Arguing that AI summaries have rendered the anecdotal lede obsolete fails to grasp the multi-modal nature of modern news. These aren't competing devices; they're different gateways for different intent. We're building multiple entry points.
Love this framing. Systemic reason people gravitate toward LEGO, coloring, puzzles. Beyond nostalgia, it's a response to a media environment demanding fractured attention. Tactile friction in a world designed to be frictionless. Don't dismiss of the need for low-stakes focus as a restorative habit.
SENIOR EDITOR, ESSAYS & COLUMNS / THE CUT (New York) : You know the job. Work with writers to develop first-person and opinion-driven storytelling across The Cut's core coverage areas of fashion, beauty, politics, sex, and celebrity. Win the internet.
INDUSTRIAL LITERACY : The AP's pivot is the final, quiet fracturing of the foundation. For years, the creators have propped up a specific kind of digital mirage — independent voices pretending to report while actually just aggregating the labor of wire services.
PARTNERSHIPS EDITOR / HIGH COUNTRY NEWS (Remote) : HCN is looking for someone to build on its collaborations with other media outlets, and to coordinate with editors and writers in other newsrooms.
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"The universe asks: Who are you, exactly, how do you matter? Why are you even here? And what are you gonna do now?" slate.com/technology/2...
American publishing regularly punishes women in their 50s by simply not interviewing them for new jobs in the way @saribotton.bsky.social describes here. So it’s great revenge that she launched Oldster magazine on her own, now with 70k subscribers.
Cleveland's top newspaper is "removing writing from some reporters' workloads" by using AI to draft articles.
We dove into what drove the paper's editor to do that, how it's going and what the paper's human reporters think about it. wapo.st/4aX44e1 w/ @scottnover.bsky.social
"Baseball may have had the 20th century, but in the 21st, whether you watched it or not, 'Survivor' was America’s pastime." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/a...
We're starting to see the hits legacy media is taking to affiliate revenue streams with the rise of generative AI. Ziff Davis in Q4 saw an 18% YoY decline for its tech and shopping brands like PC Mag and CNET. www.amediaoperator.com/news/ziff-da...
"It is heartbreaking and infuriating, not only a blow to the literary world, but it leaves a further cultural void in our alarmingly eroding democracy." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/b...
Verge headline: If Big Tech cared about fighting AI slop, it wouldn’t be drowning us in it by Jess Weatherbed Photo illustration depicts a pig eating slop out of a bucket
The good news is that an image authentication solution already exists: it’s called C2PA. The bad news is that Instagram is already using it, and it’s not doing shit to actually help.
Read more from @zombiewretch.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Marty Baron says journalism writ large — both traditional newsrooms and independent reporters — are largely meeting this difficult moment, but owners are a point of vulnerability in the Trump era. That and lots more in this interview w/ @evanasmith.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uplo....
I guess it's a media hot take that fiction and poetry and composite characters and whatever it is that Andy Borowitz was doing for all those years have no place in journalism outlets. Because they're not journalism. They're not bad! (Well....) But they erode trust in reporting.
must-read from @charlottetklein.bsky.social on the disastrous Will Lewis tenure at @washingtonpost.com nymag.com/intelligence...
In the event it's cycled out of your media diet, here's a plug for @cjr and the great work they've been doing. They're plugging a hole in industry coverage. It's not a lot of quick news and punditry; it's principled post-mortems and thoughtful, structural analysis. I love it. www.cjr.org
"There is another America inside this one, visible in the statistics of nations that made different choices. Call it Latent America: the nation that would exist if our democracy functioned to serve the public rather than protect the already powerful." data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l...
"Philistines are always declaring that no one reads literary criticism, but the record shows that publishers systematically underestimate the popularity of book reviews."
"Making money at journalism, you have to break rocks with a shovel. You have to love thinking about journalism to the point that it wakes you up at night with an idea, and then you have to be willing to try it." www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
"A newspaper is a public service. If it does its job, people will have better information and better lives — difficult to quantify in monetary terms, but for a long time, we used to think that making people's lives better was important and valuable." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
"An early test of the Post's new approach to sports came Wednesday night, just hours after the sports desk was eliminated. Anthony Davis ... was traded to the Washington Wizards, instantly reshaping the paper's hometown franchise. The Post ran a wire story...." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
