Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. “Politics and hard news are important, I don’t want to imply otherwise ...

Public TV stations will be “forced to make hard decisions in the weeks and months ahead,” PBS CEO Paula Kerger said Thursday, after the Senate approved a bill canceling all the federal funding for the ...

As the 2020 election draws near, media companies mount aggressive bids for ad dollars for MSNBC, Fox News, CNN and other news programs Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV ...

Fox News Media this week signed a licensing deal with the makers of "Ruthless," a popular conservative podcast. The co-hosts ...

Therein lies the dilemma for CNN and other news organizations, as the most attention-grabbing content gets reduced to bite-sized, hard-to-monetize bits, while their panelists seek to brand ...

Last week, I saw a new paper in the journal Nature Human Behavior called “Negativity Drives Online News Consumption.” That seems bad , I thought. Naturally, I clicked.

It’s become a sort of parable. (Aaron Sorkin used it in the HBO drama The Newsroom to rail against the indignities of online media.) When combined with the anarchic and often meme-driven nature of ...

Key Background. The choice for Threads to steer clear of news and politics on its platform is likely informed by troubles Facebook had before it reduced such content in 2021.