I wrote a year ago about how digital media was returning to the 2000s, with sites like HuffPost and Fox News building strategies around their strong homepage traffic

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Quartz is getting rid of its AP partnership, per a source. Seems like cost-cutting as G/O continues to put its titles up for sale. But Quartz is also at least the third media company to drop the AP this year. Gannett and McClatchy both scaled back their AP partnerships.

It's been a great year for the NBA's intellectual dark web players. LeBron eliminated, while Michael Porter Jr., Kyrie, Jonathan Isaac are all still going strong in the playoffs.

Here's Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb's memo to faculty. 'We believe that journalists have a fundamental right to cover the news. Your efforts turned those sentiments into reality.'

I already know what cyberpunk is but I honestly have no idea what to watch on Apple TV+, so that article is more relevant to my life at this point

maxey had jon stewart shook lmao

Fox News has removed a six-part Hunter Biden miniseries from its streaming platform, one day after his attorneys threatened to sue the right-wing network over the incendiary and at-times sexually explicit program about his legal troubles. via Marshall Cohen

“Business Insider top editor Nicholas Carlson is expected to leave the publication later this summer, according to people familiar with his plans. Carlson has been the global editor-in-chief of the digital news outlet since 2017”

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New in tonight’s Semafor media newsletter: Every year, David Remnick puts together a list of who could replace him as editor of the New Yorker. I wrote about who might be on that list semafor.com/article/04/28/…

In recent months, longtime New Yorker editor David Remnick has increasingly mused to peers about his inevitable departure — and who might take his place, Max Tani reports.
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Read Max Tani, aka the Great Mentioner, on succession at The New Yorker semafor.com/article/04/28/…

Obviously this is not the point, but I guess streaming has kind of made it so that some young people don’t really know what cable is…

🚨NEWS: The NBA and Amazon Prime Video have a framework for an agreement that will make the streamer one of the homes for significant regular season and postseason games for a decade, The Athletic has learned.

Full details:

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🟡SCOOP: At the low point of President Joe Biden’s polling this winter, top New York Democratic donors pushed to bring the legendary Democratic politico Rahm Emanuel back from his posting in Japan to run the re-election campaign.
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Jesse Watters seems to have walked back his apology for the Chinatown segment.

Left is Watters to Max Tani in December 2016 and right is Watters to Lachlan Cartwright yesterday

In a statement to Semafor, a New York Times spokesperson pushes back on this, saying 'the notion that any line of coverage has been ordered up or encouraged in retaliation for declining an interview, or any other reason, is outrageous and untrue.'

Scoop: G/O Media has sold The Onion. The company told employees in an email today that it was bought by a new company called Global Tetrahedron and the site's staff will be kept on

LeBron, KD, Steph era seems pretty over…