The New York Times / Matt Flegenheimer and Jeremy W. Peters
How Fox News (yes, Fox News) managed to beat “The Tonight Show” →“Though far less dissected than Emmy-nominated counterparts like Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel, Mr. Gutfeld reliably outrates their Trump-dinging monologues and celebrity-guest banter with scatological digressions, cameos from a low-rent presidential impersonator and a booking roster that can count Larry Kudlow as the get of the night.”
The Los Angeles Times / Wendy Lee
The Washington Post / Petula Dvorak
Columbia Journalism Review / Jon Allsop
Yevgeny Prigozhin and the press →“In recent days, Prigozhin has emerged as a character almost custom-made for the glare of global media interest: a petty crook turned hot-dog vendor turned ritzy caterer who served caviar to George W. Bush, then founded a private military empire, then used it to puncture the authority of an autocrat once seen as untouchable, if only in the realm of media archetype.”
A Media Operator / Jacob Cohen Donnelly
The Vice saga is over →“A lot of Vice’s problems were poor execution, but the strategy was predicated on trying to get bigger to justify the valuation. A clean cap table might be all the brand needs to start growing again; albeit, at a much slower pace and, likely, from a smaller base.”
Platformer / Casey Newton
Meta plans a news blackout in Canada →“It would be one thing if we knew for certain that this law, no matter how ill conceived or harmful to the web, would actually offer sustainable funding for journalism. But neither Australia’s law nor Canada’s requires that a majority of the money given from publishers to platforms goes to support actual journalism.”
Media Nation / Dan Kennedy
Press Gazette / Bron Maher
The New York Times / Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris
How review-bombing can tank a book before it’s published →“It can be incredibly hurtful, and it’s frustrating that people are allowed to review books this way if they haven’t read them. Worse, they’re allowed to review books that haven’t even been written. I have books on there being reviewed that I’m not finished with yet.”
Wall Street Journal / Wall Street Journal Staff Writer
The Verge / James Vincent
AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born →“Potentially, it would damage whole swathes of the web that most of us find useful — from product reviews to recipe blogs, hobbyist homepages, news outlets, and wikis. Sites could protect themselves by locking down entry and charging for access, but this would also be a huge reordering of the web’s economy.”
Rest of World / Caiwei Chen
China’s banned online communities have found a new home on Reddit →“As China has tightened its grip on online speech, the platform has become an unlikely refuge for banned Chinese internet groups such as Kai Fang Qu, Japanophile community Kanagawa Chonglang Hub, and popular gossip forum Goose Group which migrated from Chinese social media platform Douban.”