NEWS w/Lauren Hirsch: Sony and Apollo have put in their letter to acquire Paramount for $26 billion in all-cash
nytimes.com/2024/05/02/bus…

Here's Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb's memo to faculty. 'We believe that journalists have a fundamental right to cover the news. Your efforts turned those sentiments into reality.'

On The Daily this morning (!) talking TikTok and the new law pushing the company to either divest from ByteDance or face a ban: nytimes.com/2024/04/30/pod… thanks for having me on Sabrina Tavernise & team!

NEW: A group of Alden newspapers, including New York Daily News & The Chicago Tribune, has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing them of using millions of copyrighted articles to train and power their AI chatbots nytimes.com/2024/04/30/bus…

News: The union that represents Wall Street Journal employees says it has authorized a strike vote over the company's contract proposals x.com/IAPE1096/statu…

New: Hunter Biden declares war on Fox News with threat of 'imminent' lawsuit
Lawyer argues the network has defamed him and used hacked personal photos.
axios.com/2024/04/29/hun…

Bob Bakish steps down. He's entitled to severance worth $50.6 million. a/Lauren Hirsch
nytimes.com/2024/04/29/bus…
$PARA

NEWS: OAN retracts false report about Cohen having an affair with Stormy Daniels, with apology nytimes.com/2024/04/29/nyr…

Scoop w/Lauren Hirsch: In its revised offer this weekend, Skydance also offered to give Paramount shareholders a larger stake in the combined company
nytimes.com/2024/04/29/bus…

The Financial Times and OpenAI strike content licensing deal
ft.com/content/333287…

Mystery solved!

The Onion is now owned by Jeff Lawson, the Twilio and it's being run by Ben Collins, former of NBC. Life combines with fiction and makes one strange brew

Katie Robertson

nytimes.com/2024/04/25/bus…

'The world needs laughter; it needs satirical criticism more than ever'

I talked to the new owners of The Onion: Jeff Lawson (Twilio co-founder) and Ben Collins (formerly NBC News), who formed Global Tetrahedron to buy it
Jeff Lawson Ben Collins

nytimes.com/2024/04/25/bus…

NEW: lawmakers have been trying to force a sale of TikTok from ByteDance or ban it for ~4 years. here's the inside story on how this new bill, set to be signed by Biden, was drafted in secrecy for a year by a tiny group in the House with the DOJ & NSC nytimes.com/2024/04/24/tec…

NPR CEO Katherine Maher emails staff about our story:

nytimes.com/2024/04/24/bus…

NEW: I spent the last 8 months(!) digging into the situation at NPR with my colleague Jeremy Peters. Here's what we found
nytimes.com/2024/04/24/bus…

A judge in Moscow has rejected Evan Gershkovich's latest appeal against his detention. Here's what we saw in court. Producer Ben Tavener BBC News (UK)

Countries like Russia, China and Iran 'are waging ferocious information warfare aimed at undermining democracies, aimed at undermining the United States, and we need to fight back,” ⁦Mike Abramowitz⁩ tells ⁦Katie Robertson⁩ nytimes.com/2024/04/19/bus…

Mike Mike Abramowitz named as the new director for Voice of America nytimes.com/2024/04/19/bus…