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A potentially huge boon to struggling local public stations could rest in nostalgia.

For another look at my opinion piece and reflections on the “ambient news” that helped shape the 2024 election, head to Hearst’s CT Insider, which has published this and previous columns of mine.

If driven to its logical conclusion, this rationale for editorial reticence could extend to editorials on every hot-button topic

Murdoch turmoil, election debate coverage and more.

Open AI News Corp Reddit News Corp became the latest publishing giant to ink a deal with OpenAI allowing the company to mine its content for chatbot training. This gives OpenAI access to the Wall Street Journal, New York Post and Barron’s, among other outlets under the Murdoch-owned company’s big umbrella. News of the pact, […]

The proliferation of small media shards means that common ground will be ever harder to find among American voters.

Lamentation and petty thievery.

The stubborn question of whether regulation strangles innovation has greeted the act.

The radio and TV newscaster Charles Osgood died this week at 91 years old. A Fordham graduate, a longtime friend and a real mensch, Charles was a professional hero of mine and a towering inspiration for broadcasters. 

The effects of war, on the ground in Gaza and in US newsrooms.

A former NYT editor on how the Paper of Record lost its way, and more.

Univision’s news coverage raises eyebrows, Europe confronts AI and more.

A roundup of recommended takes on the media, by the media.

A novel factor in the coming year’s elections is how AI, which has improved with startling speed over the past 12 months, will upend political campaigns and voting processes.

Media treatment of the events has generated its own bitter controversies.

Good and bad news for tech regulation, the end of the time signal and a resolution to one Hollywood strike.

An impasse revives thorny questions about the corrosive relationship between news outlets and tech giants.

Europe (maybe) reins in TikTok, streaming triumphs, Disney struggles and more…

A monthly roundup of media winners and losers.

The government must be more transparent about its dealings with social media platforms regarding harmful content.

A monthly roundup of media winners and losers.

There’s a sturdy commitment in Canada to journalism’s mission to serve the public by telling the truth that has abated in America.

What worries me more than the season’s social media snafus, and even more than its crude culture war battles, is the destabilizing and misleading role that Artificial Intelligence is likely to play in the long, muddy march to the White House.

AI in journalism is here to stay. Humans must ethically deploy it.