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How Online Privacy Is Shaping Global News Coverage

How online privacy, source protection and a fragmented internet shape which stories get reported and who gets to read them.

By Mark Masterson · Oct 26 · 2 min read

Entertainment
Jon Stewart, Re-Signed One Year at a Time Since 2024, Now Has Two Years at The Daily Show

Oct 21
News Media
Christiane Amanpour Is Leaving CNN After 43 Years. In May She Warned That What Ellison Did to CBS Could Happen Next.

Oct 20
Law & Justice
Trump Says Leakers “Should Be Shot.” The Law He Would Charge Them Under Caps the Sentence at 10 Years.

Oct 16

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A camera operator in a rain jacket and a correspondent holding a microphone stand beside a row of television cameras under tents on the White House lawn.

Law & Justice

The Justice Department Sent Antitrust Demands to Five TV Networks for Pausing Their Coverage of Trump

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division sent civil investigative demands to ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 12

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Entertainment

Shane Gillis Dropped an F-Bomb Live on SNL, and NBC Aired It Unbleeped Before 10 PM on the West Coast

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By Mark Masterson · Oct 12

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Law & Justice

Two Security Advisers Say They Told Fox News’s Benjamin Hall Not to Leave Kyiv Before the Attack That Killed Two Colleagues

Two security advisers who worked for Fox News in Ukraine told NPR that the…

By Mark Masterson · Oct 4

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Law & Justice

Trump’s White House Press Ban Goes Before the Judge Who Restored Jim Acosta’s Pass

The Justice Department’s brief admits the thing it is supposed to deny. Filed late…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 23

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Business

Twelve States Sued to Keep Paramount From Owning CNN. The Board That Settled It Answers to Paramount.

Read the consent decree that ended the twelve-state antitrust case against Paramount Skydance on…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 22

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Politics

MS NOW Crews Turned Away at the White House Gate as Trump’s Press Ban Took Effect

A photographer and a cameraman working for MS NOW were stopped at a security…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 19

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News Media

One Podcast Clip Set Off Two Days of Caitlin Clark Coverage. She Made the Same Point in July.

Cari Champion said the WNBA is mishandling Caitlin Clark and her fanbase has turned…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 18

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News Media

Three People Died When NBC4’s News Helicopter Crashed Covering a Fatal Bus Collision

An NBC4 news helicopter sent to film a deadly Chatsworth bus collision crashed two…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 16

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Gaming

The Fragmented Mirror: How Live Digital Chatrooms Shape Modern News Consumption

How real-time chatrooms alongside breaking news changed the way audiences process events, and what…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 8

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Entertainment

Ink, the Murdoch Origin Story Murdoch Himself Blessed, Opened Venice to a Four-Minute Ovation

Danny Boyle’s Ink premiered Wednesday night in the Sala Grande on the opening evening…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 3

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News Media

Gloria Steinem Died at 92. The Equal Rights Amendment Still Is Not in the Constitution.

Gloria Steinem died on Wednesday at her home in New York City, at the…

By Mark Masterson · Sep 3

Business

CNN Went Down Alongside HBO and TNT, the Networks It Is About to Be Split Away From

Shortly after noon Eastern on Monday, August 24, the picture on CNN froze and…

By Mark Masterson · Aug 31

Archive

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News Media

Renaming a Lake Costs Trump Nothing. Refusing to Repeat It Cost the AP Its White House Seat.

Aug 29

Michelle Obama, Craig Robinson and Jon Stewart seated in tan leather armchairs around a black round table with broadcast microphones in the warm living-room set of the IMO podcast

Entertainment

After Michelle Obama Asked If Comedy Helps Politics, Jon Stewart Said He Has No Way to Know

Aug 26

Law & Justice

Disney Sued Brendan Carr’s FCC Instead of Settling With Trump Again

Aug 18

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News Media

A Wings Beat Writer Just Quit the WNBA Over a Death Threat, and Nobody Owns the Problem

Aug 12

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News Media

Trump Left Air Force One in a Catering Truck and Let the Press Fly On as a Decoy

Aug 11

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News Media

The Paramount-Warner Trial Starts March 2, 2027. CNN Has to Live Somewhere Until Then.

Aug 5

Business

Paramount’s $110 Billion Warner Deal Now Runs Through an FCC With a Conflict Problem

Jul 23

Sports

ESPN Gave Tim Tebow a Multi-Year Extension While Laying Off Karl Ravech, Ryan Clark, and Tom Pelissero

Jul 22

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Elections

ABC and NBC Refused to Air Trump’s Election Speech, and His Own Party Begged Him Not to Give It

Jul 16

News Media

Jimmy Kimmel Says Late-Night Television Is “Being Poisoned,” and He Sounds Like a Man Figuring Out His Exit

Jun 2

A darkened, empty TV news studio at dusk with a single spotlight on a vacant anchor desk flanked by silhouetted studio cameras

Entertainment

CBS Fires Two ’60 Minutes’ Correspondents as Bari Weiss Overhauls the Newsmagazine

May 29

How Online Privacy Is Shaping Global News Coverage

Jon Stewart, Re-Signed One Year at a Time Since 2024, Now Has Two Years at The Daily Show

Christiane Amanpour Is Leaving CNN After 43 Years. In May She Warned That What Ellison Did to CBS Could Happen Next.

Trump Says Leakers “Should Be Shot.” The Law He Would Charge Them Under Caps the Sentence at 10 Years.

The Justice Department Sent Antitrust Demands to Five TV Networks for Pausing Their Coverage of Trump

Shane Gillis Dropped an F-Bomb Live on SNL, and NBC Aired It Unbleeped Before 10 PM on the West Coast

Two Security Advisers Say They Told Fox News’s Benjamin Hall Not to Leave Kyiv Before the Attack That Killed Two Colleagues

Trump’s White House Press Ban Goes Before the Judge Who Restored Jim Acosta’s Pass

Twelve States Sued to Keep Paramount From Owning CNN. The Board That Settled It Answers to Paramount.

MS NOW Crews Turned Away at the White House Gate as Trump’s Press Ban Took Effect

One Podcast Clip Set Off Two Days of Caitlin Clark Coverage. She Made the Same Point in July.

Three People Died When NBC4’s News Helicopter Crashed Covering a Fatal Bus Collision

The Fragmented Mirror: How Live Digital Chatrooms Shape Modern News Consumption

Ink, the Murdoch Origin Story Murdoch Himself Blessed, Opened Venice to a Four-Minute Ovation

Gloria Steinem Died at 92. The Equal Rights Amendment Still Is Not in the Constitution.

CNN Went Down Alongside HBO and TNT, the Networks It Is About to Be Split Away From

Renaming a Lake Costs Trump Nothing. Refusing to Repeat It Cost the AP Its White House Seat.

After Michelle Obama Asked If Comedy Helps Politics, Jon Stewart Said He Has No Way to Know

Disney Sued Brendan Carr’s FCC Instead of Settling With Trump Again

A Wings Beat Writer Just Quit the WNBA Over a Death Threat, and Nobody Owns the Problem

Trump Left Air Force One in a Catering Truck and Let the Press Fly On as a Decoy

The Paramount-Warner Trial Starts March 2, 2027. CNN Has to Live Somewhere Until Then.

Paramount’s $110 Billion Warner Deal Now Runs Through an FCC With a Conflict Problem

ESPN Gave Tim Tebow a Multi-Year Extension While Laying Off Karl Ravech, Ryan Clark, and Tom Pelissero

ABC and NBC Refused to Air Trump’s Election Speech, and His Own Party Begged Him Not to Give It

MS NOW Sets June Debuts for New Katy Tur, Ali Velshi and Jacob Soboroff Shows

Scott Pelley Says Bari Weiss Wanted 60 Minutes to Make Renee Good Look Guilty

CBS Fires Scott Pelley as Bari Weiss Completes Her Takeover of 60 Minutes

Jimmy Kimmel Says Late-Night Television Is “Being Poisoned,” and He Sounds Like a Man Figuring Out His Exit

CBS Fires Two ’60 Minutes’ Correspondents as Bari Weiss Overhauls the Newsmagazine