Category: News and News Media

Retracing Walt Whitman’s Steps Through Brooklyn and Manhattan

The poet wandered for himself and for his various day jobs with New York City newspapers. Some of his haunts are still standing; most have been swept away with time.
Inside the Face-Off Between Russia and a Small Internet Access Firm

The cat-and-mouse experience of Proton, a Swiss company, shows what it’s like to be targeted by Russian censors — and what it takes to fight back.
A Russian Journalist’s Reference to Russian Troops Causes Fury and Soul Searching.

An unscripted comment by a television host has plunged a major independent Russian media outlet in crisis, and put focus on the public role of Russian exiles in their country’s war.
ABC News Pulls TJ Holmes and Amy Robach Off Air After Romance Revelations

T.J. Holmes and Amy Robach, who co-host “GMA3,” are temporarily off the air after a spate of tabloid reports.
Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi Set Off Debate Over Release of Twitter Files

A release of internal documents from Twitter set off intense debates in the intersecting worlds of media, politics and tech.
Defamation Suit Against Fox Grows More Contentious

Lachlan Murdoch is set to be deposed on Monday, the latest in a flurry of activity in the high-stakes case.
Gannett Starts Another Round of Staff Cuts

The largest newspaper chain is cutting roughly 6 percent of its 3,440-person U.S. media division.
Sam Bankman-Fried Interview: Read the Transcript

In a discussion with Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times, Sam Bankman-Fried blamed “huge management failures” and sloppy accounting for the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange.
CNN Cuts Jobs as Cost-Cutting Pressure Mounts

Chris Licht, the network’s chairman, said that the company would be notifying affected employees later this week.
How Free Is the Press in the Birthplace of Democracy?

Reporters under surveillance. Political opponents being wiretapped. The scandal is called the ‘Greek Watergate.’ But not enough people are paying attention.
T. Rowe Price Raises Concerns About News Corp’s Merger With Fox

T. Rowe Price, the largest owner of News Corp after the Murdoch family, says the deal risks undervaluing News Corp.
The reporter behind the report of a Russian missile in Poland is no longer at The A.P.

The NATO secretary general and Polish officials said the explosion was most likely caused by a Ukrainian air-defense missile that was fending off a Russian attack and went off course.