“The show is currently being tested in beta via the New York Times’ audio app, with plans to launch it later this year.”

“BuzzFeed has reduced the size of its roughly 100-person newsroom by about 40% in the past year, while shifting its focus away from long-form investigations and coverage areas, such as politics and financial news, and toward internet culture, celebrity news and the biggest news of the day.”

“Make this email more whimsical.”

“On average, women in our bargaining unit make $11,237 less than men. This equates to a pay gap of 89 cents on the dollar … In some roles, the gap is even higher. Male senior writers make an average of $22,000 more than their female colleagues.”

HB 991 “provides that journalist’s privilege does not apply to defamation claims when defendant is professional journalist or media entity.”

Meta also plans to close about 5,000 job postings that have yet to be filled. (We wrote about what the last round of cuts signals to the news industry in November.)

“Rural newspapers like [The Canadian Record] face compounding threats. Not only do publishers face the same industry pressures of rising newsprint costs and an ever-expanding internet and social media landscape, but unlike their big-city peers, they also must navigate the challenges of serving a stagnant or declining population.”

“Between 2013 and 2022, more than 60 Venezuelan newspapers went out of circulation indefinitely due to lack of funds, control by the government or inability to buy enough paper to print their editions. Television broadcasters have either been forced to self-censor or have disappeared. Ten foreign broadcasters have also been forced out.”

“The scope of Middle Eastern investments in Western cultural products is hard to overestimate, and it’s growing now for a variety of reasons.” One is that Saudi Arabia is promoting itself as a travel destination and filming location.

“The broadcaster’s bankruptcy underscores the immense challenges facing regional sports networks, which are under financial pressure as more people cancel their cable-TV service, depriving them of a key source of revenue. The wave of cord-cutting also undermined Diamond’s ability to manage the substantial debt load that Sinclair took on in the acquisition.”

(Here’s our check-in from five years ago.)