news: The FT is offering buyouts. Pay determined by length of service. However, "for this year only, we have agreement to lift the cap on individual payments in 2026 from £100,000 to £120,000."
SCOOP with Elizabeth Williamson: The Onion has a new plan to take over Infowars. It has entered into an agreement to license the Infowars brand and plans to operate it as a comedy site. A Texas judge must approve the deal.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...
NPR: Employees may NOT bet on the Tiny Desk!!
Washington Post C.E.O. Jeff D'Onofrio emailed employees last week, expressing hope the company will be break-even this year and profitable thereafter.
He also cited three priorities for 2026: "journalistic excellence, data, cost mastery & productivity, and disruptive growth."
NEW: A judge has granted The Wall Street Journal's motion to dismiss President Trump's complaint over its Epstein reporting
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scoop: more than 1,000 directors, writers, actors and other entertainment industry professionals have signed an open letter opposing Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/b...
New: federal Judge hands NPR and PBS a victory over President Trump:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/b...
Scoop with @jessicatesta.bsky.social: CNBC and MS NOW parent Versant is among the companies in talks to acquire Vox Media's podcast biz
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/b...
NEWS: Axios is cutting 11 people across national, local, news desk visuals and social:
After The Washington Post cut its newsroom roughly in half in February, I teamed up with @katierobertson.bsky.social @erikwemple.bsky.social to examine why its owner, Jeff Bezos, was insisting on major cuts after years of investment. The answer is here:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...
NPR is doing a thing
tidbit: I’m told The Washington Post town hall with Matt Murray and Jeff D’onofrio is underway. Per source, Matt kicked it off with a shoutout to the lawyers representing Hannah Natanson, leading the room in applause
scooplet: Mathias Dopfner, C.E.O. of Axel Springer (Politico, Business Insider, Welt) met with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles earlier today. Source says it was an introductory, get-to-know-you meeting.
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
“I’m glad Will Lewis has been fired. I wish it had happened before he fired all my friends.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/t...
NEW: A eulogy for The Post's sports department, which transformed the press box forever and created some of the best sportswriters in America
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning.
Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
New: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom webinar ahead of “significant actions across the company.” Widely expected layoffs are scheduled to begin today.
News: Former CBS digital exec Christy Tanner is the new CEO of NYPR (the parent organization of WNYC and WQXR)
Jim Butcher's "Twelve Months" is at the top of the NYT's best-seller list this week.
I went down to Colorado in March to profile Jim and discovered some surprising connections between his life and the fantasy world of his ultra-popular Dresden Files
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/b...
The Wall Street Journal opinion page allows President Trump to impugn The Journal (and flout its style guide):
Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
More: Matt Murray is expected to be seated next to Don Graham, the former owner of the Post, according to the seating chart.
Of note: On the attendee roster of this D.C. fete, Bezos is listed as the founder of Amazon, Blue Origin and Prometheus, but not as the owner of The Washington Post
More: Will Lewis, the current CEO of The Post, is also expected to attend, as is Matt Murray, the executive editor, according to the seating chart.
some Washington Post news: Jeff Bezos is expected to attend the Alfalfa Club dinner in Washington, D.C. tonight, according to a seating chart obtained by @tylerpager.bsky.social. He is sitting at a table near Fred Ryan, the former Washington Post publisher. President Trump will also be there.
