“The mandate applies globally, to hundreds of U.S. embassies and consulates, according to a State Department official who spoke with The Post on Tuesday on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters. Embassy security teams rely on news coverage to prepare for diplomatic travel in conflict zones. Cancellation of subscriptions — including to local news outlets — could hinder their assessment of threats, the official said.”

“The File is one of at least three not-for-profit Indian newsrooms effectively smothered since the second half of 2024 through tax authorities’ revocation of their preliminary non-profit status. Unable to receive tax-free grants or donations, with no revenue model sound enough to pay staff, overheads, web-hosting costs, etc, and with the prospect of being asked to pay income tax and goods and services tax (GST) on contributions received until now, possibly with retrospective effect, all three face legal and financial uncertainty, and other constraints in continuing to work.”

“The Pentagon’s chief spokesperson Sean Parnell has invited radio hosts Clay Travis and Buck Sexton to broadcast their show from the Pentagon, sources confirmed to Axios … Travis and Sexton replaced the late Rush Limbaugh’s radio show on Premiere Networks in 2021. The three-hour talk show, which is broadcast across hundreds of radio stations nationwide, holds weight within the Trump administration.”

“What would that media look like? It would be one where economic reporters are embedded in blue-collar communities and neighborhoods rather than financial districts, and source networks built around people with direct experience instead of outside analysts. Centering inflation coverage around wage stagnation rather than the stock market and written for people who live paycheck to paycheck. Healthcare reporting would be conducted by those who have experienced medical debt. Labor reporting that represents workers not as mute sufferers but as true experts. Housing that is considered from the perspective of the renter, not the landlord or developer.”

“Hearst has reached an agreement to buy the Austin American-Statesman from Gannett Co. Inc., adding a 154-year-old newspaper in a growing city to its portfolio and expanding its footprint in Texas … Last year, the company launched Austin Daily, a newsletter and online product reporting on Austin’s culture and politics, and acquired Austin Monthly and Austin Home magazines from Open Sky Media.”

“Ozy Media founder and chief executive Carlos Watson will pay over $96 million in restitution and forfeiture, in addition to his prison sentence, for his involvement in a fraud scheme in which he conspired to impersonate a YouTube executive and repeatedly lied to investors about the now-defunct media company’s finances.”

“Swartz sent his annual letter to Hearst employees Tuesday, detailing how the company’s various divisions performed. According to the letter, Hearst hit $13 billion in revenues last year, a new record. That growth was driven primarily by the credit rating agency and research firm Fitch and Hearst’s local TV stations, which benefited from a presidential election year. It was due to those two divisions that ‘we were able to overcome very challenging business conditions at many of our consumer media businesses,’ Swartz wrote.”

“US video sharing firm Rumble Inc., which partners with Trump Media, is also a plaintiff in the new lawsuit. It accuses the justice of stifling free speech by ordering Rumble to take down accounts of Bolsonaro supporters as well as critics of current Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva.”

“What I found with both bloodstain-pattern analysis and then even with the language surrounding shaken baby syndrome is that it’s really important to pierce that veil and learn the lexicon, to understand what these experts are saying, and figure out, are they really experts? Can any of this be peer-reviewed? What are the error rates for these things? Is this just one person’s word versus another?”