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.
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.
Meta's January 2025 switch to community notes cut funding to the third-party fact-checking network and changed what publishers' platform traffic is worth.
Amara Okonkwo · January 31, 2026
Licensing deals multiplied after Cloudflare's default AI-bot blocking in July 2025, Meta started signing in December, and referral decline stopped being a prediction.
Amara Okonkwo · January 8, 2026