Benjamin Mullin

Roberta Kaplan’s work as a lawyer made her a hero to the left. But behind the scenes, she was known for her poor treatment of colleagues.

A letter to the network noted that, in previous debates, a reporter from the White House Correspondents’ Association was granted access.

Who will survive? Die? Thrive? And how? We talked to nearly a dozen top media executives and asked them to predict what lies ahead.

Robert Winnett will stay at The Daily Telegraph, after reports raised questions about his ties to unethical news gathering practices.

The newspaper has been reeling from successive revelations about Robert Winnett, its incoming editor, and Will Lewis, its chief executive.

The Amazon founder has expressed his support to Will Lewis, the C.E.O., who has faced widespread criticism this month.

Markets appear to be dismissing the central bank’s more pessimistic take on inflation, as the S&P 500 nears a new high.

After months of negotiations, Shari Redstone walked away from a tie-up with SkyDance. Here’s how a plan to reshape the media conglomerate broke apart.

There were several hitches in the last week as Skydance, Paramount and its parent company, National Amusements, reached the final stages of negotiations.

As a historic presidential election looms, several of America’s largest and most powerful newsrooms are now being led by English journalists. Why?

Will Lewis, the chief executive, pledged to employees to “improve how well I listen,” while Matt Murray, the new editor, tried to reassure staff members.

David Folkenflik of NPR wrote that the offer, in exchange for agreeing to stop his coverage of a phone hacking scandal, was made “repeatedly — and heatedly.”

Will Lewis, the chief executive of The Washington Post, objected to coverage of a legal development involving him in a phone hacking case.

Sally Buzbee, who has been editor of The Washington Post since 2021, chafed at a major reorganization by the newspaper’s chief executive.

Matt Murray, the former editor in chief of The Wall Street Journal, will take her place temporarily.

A special committee of Paramount’s board of directors supports a merger with Skydance, a studio that has increased its offer in recent days. But the deal isn’t done yet.

The two leaders have looked for money-saving measures since joining the digital tabloid in April.

The former G.O.P. presidential candidate, who has invested in BuzzFeed, believes the company needs to pivot. He wants to see commentators like Tucker Carlson in its lineup.

Mr. Watson’s lawyer has argued that many other media leaders lured investors with “puffing and bluffing,” and that Mr. Watson is being singled out because he is Black.

The two companies have expressed interest in acquiring the media conglomerate, but are backing away from their $26 billion all-cash offer.

Many employees have expressed concern that a new group of six editors called the Backstop will be unnecessary and slow down NPR’s journalism.

The department said the company had failed to design and enforce a compliance and ethics program to prevent violation of U.S. fraud laws.

The bundle, called StreamSaver, is the latest joint effort from entertainment companies looking to woo price-weary customers.

If Sony and Apollo Global win the fight to buy the media company, they plan to keep the studio business and sell everything else.

CBS and other well-known properties would be sold if Sony and Apollo were able to buy Paramount. But the new owners would keep the movie studio.

Adjusted operating profit was $76.1 million, an increase of about 41 percent from a year earlier.

The Invisible Institute, a nonprofit newsroom with roughly a dozen journalists, was recognized for local and audio reporting.

The first Black woman to run a broadcast news division, Ms. Godwin had a rocky tenure defined by infighting and damaging leaks.

After letting exclusive talks with the movie studio Skydance lapse, Paramount’s directors met over the weekend and decided to negotiate with all the suitors.

Negotiations are now likely to focus on another suitor, Sony, which has teamed up with the private equity giant Apollo on a $26 billion bid.

Paramount has been exploring a potential deal for months, talking to suitors including Skydance, producer of “Top Gun: Maverick.”

Katherine Maher, the radio network’s new chief executive, has been in the spotlight since an editor published an essay accusing the organization of leftward-leaning bias.

Bob Bakish was once a staunch ally of Shari Redstone, Paramount’s controlling shareholder. His departure comes as the company considers a major merger.

The terms of the new deal would provide Paramount shareholders with an investment to pay down debt and buy back stock.

He was once a staunch ally of the company’s biggest owner, Shari Redstone, but the relationship soured in recent months.

The appearance allowed President Biden to tell the stories of love and loss that have defined his public image.

Listeners are tuning out. Sponsorship revenue has dipped. A diversity push has generated internal turmoil. Can America’s public radio network turn things around?

The company and Apollo Global Management are discussing a joint effort, even as Paramount conducts exclusive merger negotiations with Skydance.

The company’s revenue was 15 percent higher compared with last year, and it solidified its standing as the entertainment company’s dominant streaming service.

Uri Berliner, who has worked at NPR for 25 years, said in an essay last week that the nonprofit had allowed progressive bias to taint its coverage.

Uri Berliner, a senior business editor at NPR, said the public radio network’s liberal bias had tainted its coverage of important stories.

Katherine Maher, who took over the public network last month, posted years ago on Twitter that “Donald Trump is a racist.”

The former Disney executive Ben Sherwood and Joanna Coles, the former Hearst content chief, are being given a minority stake in the digital tabloid.

An essay from an editor at the broadcaster has generated a firestorm of criticism about the network on social media, especially among conservatives.

The board of directors has to walk a fine line, looking out for investors without running afoul of Ms. Redstone, the company’s most influential shareholder.

Paramount’s board of directors, which was already deep into talks with the media company Skydance, didn’t engage with the offer.

David Ellison, the founder of the Skydance media company, met with Paramount’s board of directors late last month to discuss the deal.

The Justice Department was investigating whether the two violated a law forbidding simultaneous service on the boards of competitors.

Authentic Brands Group, which owns Sports Illustrated, is accusing Manoj Bhargava of failing to pay millions of dollars for the rights to publish the magazine.

Cesar Conde, a leader with an M.B.A. but a limited journalism background, is facing the toughest scrutiny of his career.

The Associated Press said the decisions by the two major newspaper chains “would not have a material impact on our overall revenue.”

Minute Media, owner of The Players’ Tribune, has struck a deal to operate Sports Illustrated for at least 10 years.

Pete Distad, the former executive in charge of distribution of Apple TV+, will run a new joint venture from Fox, Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery.

Its operators made a newsroom announcement, but the outcome is uncertain since the owner has signaled it wants the magazine to endure.

A roughly $1 billion bid from the former CNN chief Jeff Zucker and his Emirati backers raised concerns among lawmakers over a storied conservative newspaper.

A handful of digital start-ups are finding success — so far, at least — by learning lessons from their troubled predecessors.

The Fed chair said regulators could scale back or rework a sweeping capital-requirements proposal that Wall Street has been fighting for months.

The nonprofit had a budget shortfall of roughly $2.5 million last year amid a difficult market for fund-raising.

Vice Media, which emerged from bankruptcy last year, is planning to cut hundreds of its more than 900 employees.

The digital-media company, which has plunged in value, is selling the unit to Ntwrk at a significant discount from its 2021 purchase price.

The company, which is moving away from traditional TV, lost more than $1 billion last year at its streaming division.

Noah Shachtman, the magazine’s editor in chief since 2021, is resigning because of editorial differences with the chief executive, Gus Wenner.

If ratings for Super Bowl LVIII are through the roof, it’s probably not only because of the guy on the Chiefs.

The move takes aim at a major issue for media companies as viewers abandon cable and prices soar for broadcast rights to sporting events.

The change is the first major programming shift under CNN’s new leader, Mark Thompson.

Tech leaders faced a grilling in the Senate, and one offered an apology. But skeptics fear little will change this time.

By closing less than a year after it launched, The Messenger is now one of the biggest busts in the annals of online news.

The owner, Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, had raised concerns with Kevin Merida, who stepped down this month, over reporting about a wealthy doctor and his dog.

Ms. Maher was previously chief executive of the Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit that supports the online encyclopedia Wikipedia.

Mass layoffs, closures and reader fatigue are afflicting news organizations as Americans prepare for a consequential election year.

It used to be the most coveted real estate in sports journalism. But its power to set the agenda disappeared along with its elite photographers.

The layoffs represent the biggest newsroom reduction since the biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong bought the company in 2018.

The biggest news organization on the West Coast has been roiled by the potential layoffs of roughly 100 newsroom employees.

The announcement on Friday left in doubt what lies ahead for the venerable publication, with some staff members dismissed immediately and others told they would keep their jobs for at least 90 days.

Time magazine, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times — owned by Marc Benioff, Jeff Bezos and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong — are still losing money.

No votes had been cast at some locations when The Associated Press and TV networks projected Donald Trump as the winner, half an hour after the caucuses began.

Kevin Merida, who took over the job in 2021, said in an internal note that his last day would be on Friday.

The company, which debuted last year with big plans to disrupt journalism, generated only $3 million in revenue by the end of December.

The company, an aggressive entrant to the digital news space, is expected to cut roughly two-dozen employees this week.

The “post-cable” news network said “unforeseen internal and external factors” caused the sudden work stoppage.

The use of content from news and information providers to train artificial intelligence systems may force a reassessment of where to draw legal lines.

Several major publishers have been in talks to license content to the creator of ChatGPT, but agreement on the price and terms has been elusive.

MSNBC, NPR, Vox Media and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution are all aiming to capitalize on interest in the criminal cases against President Donald J. Trump with the shows.

Millions of articles from The New York Times were used to train chatbots that now compete with it, the lawsuit said.

The company has discussed multiyear deals worth at least $50 million to train its generative A.I. systems on publishers’ news articles.

The tentative agreement would end 18 months of negotiations that included a one-day work stoppage.

She fought to keep control of her family’s media empire. Now she’s considering an exit as financial pressures mount.

The talks, which are said to be in the early stages, add Warner Bros. Discovery to the list of companies pursuing a possible deal with Paramount.

The congressional news start-up is doubling down on information for its audience of Capitol Hill obsessives.

Ms. Redstone waged a bitter battle for control of National Amusements, the parent company of MTV, CBS and the Paramount movie studio. Now, she’s considering a sale.

Journalists are facing “deep fakes,” sagging trust, global unrest and an unprecedented Trump campaign being run “from the courthouse steps.”

A merger put him in the driver’s seat at Warner Brothers, one of the industry’s biggest studios. It has been a wild ride.

David Zaslav, the chief executive of Warner Bros. Discovery, was friends with some of the network’s biggest names. That didn’t matter when their jobs were on the line.

Citing “economic headwinds rattling our business,” Jim Spanfeller, the chief executive of Jezebel’s parent company, G/O Media, announced the suspension of the publication and staff layoffs.

The company is in the midst of a major transformation, exploring options for traditional businesses like ESPN.

The former Dow Jones executive most recently co-founded The News Movement, a start-up aimed at young audiences.

The company will pay at least $8.61 billion to Comcast, which owned a 33 percent stake of the popular streaming service.

Roger Lynch, the chief executive, said the company was grappling with digital advertising pressures, a decline in social media traffic and shifting audience behaviors.

The league’s longtime television partners, including ESPN and Turner, are undergoing major changes, which could alter how games are watched.

BuzzFeed is negotiating a sale of much of Complex Networks for under $140 million, less than half of what it paid to acquire it two years ago.