Despite President-elect Donald Trump’s repeated claims (of course, via his Twitter account) that the New York Times is “failing,” the newspaper has actually been experiencing historic surges in paid subscriptions since election day. According to CNN Money, the Times has seen its largest subscription increase, in the month following the
A year after making its first $200 million investment in BuzzFeed, Comcast’s NBCUniversal is nearing a final deal to double down on their bet in the social news and entertainment company. According to report by Recode, NBCUniversal invested another $200 million in BuzzFeed at the
Five days after she posted a Facebook video of police officers using aggressive force against protestors at the Dakota Access Pipeline, Democracy Now’s Amy Goodman was arrested and charged with “participating in a riot.” According to a PBS report, the coverage Goodman was arrested for showed security guards
Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel’s brain-child may have been first conceived in his Stanford fraternity house, but the now-dominant social photo-chat app has done a lot of growing up since those early days. Now, with an estimated company value of $25 billion, Spiegel’s Snapchat has recently
While one is known for animated movies and theme parks, and the other for trolls and opinionated users, rumors of Disney’s interest in acquiring social media platform Twitter has had investors and analysts chirping throughout the last week. Twitter’s interest in a buyout is nothing new. The
It has been a quiet summer since publishing conglomerate Gannett first offered $815 million for Tronc, formerly known as Tribune Publishing. Gannett owns USA Today and 107 other news outlets, while Tronc owns the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Orlando Sentinel, and five
Former Fox News anchor, Gretchen Carlson, will reportedly receive $20 million as well as a public apology from 21st Century Fox. The former “Fox and Friends” anchor’s original suit claimed she was fired from Fox after refusing sexual advances from former chairman and CEO of Fox,
Editor’s Note: Some names used in the following story are pseudonyms, per the original report by New York magazine. Gretchen Carlson, long-time Fox News anchor and former co-host of morning show “Fox & Friends,” was discreetly let go from the network on June 23, 2016. Almost two