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Al Jazeera America will close by April 30th, AJAM CEO Al Anstey announced Wednesday. The network said, “The decision by the AJAM board was driven by the fact that our business model is simply not sustainable in light of the economic challenges in the U.S. media marketplace.” The network captured a lot of media attention…
paging_filter Less than three months after ESPN shut down Grantland for good, another TV channel has been filling its ranks with the sports and culture blog’s talent — MTV’s MTV News unit. At least five ex-Grantlanders have been tapped to contribute to MTV News, including Brian Phillips, Marcus Ellsworth, Holly Anderson, Molly Lambert and Mark…
“The journalistic orthodoxy” is how Jack Shafer, a media columnist for Politco, described the media establishment (when writing about the media furor over Rolling Stone’s story on El Chapo, interviewed by Sean Penn). It is a perfect phrase to describe the establishment, which is so busy nose-picking that it doesn’t see a steamroller barreling from…
View this image › 1978. Van Buren, Arkansas, Bill Clinton on a visit to Juanita Broaddrick’s (right) nursing home Getty Images / Getty Images ID: 7761199 NBC News pursued, but ultimately did not obtain, an on-air interview with Juanita Broddrick, the woman who 17 years ago publicly accused Bill Clinton of sexually assaulting her in…
Joshua Topolsky, co-founding editor of our Vox Media sister site* The Verge and most recently head of digital at Bloomberg, is working on a new digital media project that will cover a broad range of topics including politics, culture and business. The holding company name is Independent Media, and the new site, which doesn’t have a name…
Executives of Al Jazeera America (AJAM) today are holding a meeting at 2 pm Eastern Time to tell their employees that the company is terminating all news and digital operations in the U.S. as of April, 2016, resulting in the loss of hundreds of jobs. The announcement marks a stunning and rapid collapse of what, from the…
paging_filter Al Jazeera, which made a massive investment in covering the United States less than three years ago, is slamming the brakes on its American operation. Al Jazeera America, a cable news channel that debuted in August 2013, is shutting down. Employees were informed of the decision during an all-hands staff meeting on Wednesday afternoon….
In what some knowledgeable observers characterized as the death knell for a nearly 102-year-old American institution, Facebook millionaire Chris Hughes announced on Monday that he’s putting The New Republic up for sale. The 32-year-old Hughes—who was a Harvard roommate of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a relationship that helped him amass a fortune estimated at $700…
When the chips are down, and the transistors are shrinking, and the deadline hour is nigh, Thomas Friedman—a professional—can whip up a newspaper column faster than you can say “It is a shame that you are not writing for Highlights for Kids, sir.” Today, in the most valuable op-ed space in all of journalism, Thomas…
Today we are launching a national, coordinated campaign to win fair contracts with wage increases for the nearly 1,000 Guild-represented employees of Digital First Media. The campaign will build on the strength of our 13 bargaining units at DFM publications and online news sites across the United States, united by a central theme: News Matters….