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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 ...