A continuing news file on the media industry: acquisitions and investments, launches and closures, editorial layoffs and union agreements, platform policy changes affecting distribution, and senior appointments. Items note what the move implies about a company's finances or strategy. Read by people whose employer or competitors appear in it.
From YouTube's subscriber bonus to TikTok's creator fund replacement, platform payout programs have been cut, capped and restructured — the lesson is now a pattern, not an incident.
Amara Okonkwo · June 16, 2026
A third of US newspapers since 2005 are gone, more than 200 counties have no local news source at all, and the pattern of loss is not random — it tracks market size.
Amara Okonkwo · May 25, 2026
News Showcase deals expanded through 2021-2023 and then quietly wound down in market after market — the payments were programs, not infrastructure.
Amara Okonkwo · May 2, 2026
CNN launched All Access at $3.99 a month in October 2024, ending years of free-traffic orthodoxy at cable-news brands and pricing far below newspaper peers.
Colin Reyes · April 9, 2026
From the NYT's December 2023 suit against OpenAI to Dow Jones and the New York Post taking Perplexity to court, publishers chose litigation as a business strategy — with mixed results so far.
Amara Okonkwo · March 17, 2026