Media industry

Media industry

Zoom out: The last 10+ years have seen the hollowing out of storied publications like Sports Illustrated and Sporting News, the end of ESPN's magazine and Grantland and the erosion of local newsrooms' sports sections before the Washington Post announcement. The New York Times cut its sports section after it acquired The Athletic in 2022 - one of the few reporting-driven publications that has emerged in the current sports media landscape.

Lewis announced his departure in a two-paragraph email to the newspaper's staff, saying that after two years of transformation, "now is the right time for me to step aside." The Post's chief financial officer, Jeff D'Onofrio, was appointed temporary publisher. Neither Lewis nor the newspaper's billionaire owner Jeff Bezos participated in the meeting with staff members announcing the layoffs on Wednesday. While anticipated, the cutbacks were deeper than expected, resulting in the shutdown of the Post's renowned sports section, the elimination of its photography staff and sharp reductions in personnel responsible for coverage of metropolitan Washington and overseas.

When Team USA entered the San Siro during the parade of nations, the speed skater Erin Jackson led the delegation into a wall of cheers. Moments later, when cameras cut to US vice-president JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance, large sections of the crowd responded with boos. Not subtle ones, but audible and sustained ones. Canadian viewers heard them. Journalists seated in the press tribunes in the upper deck, myself included, clearly heard them.

The most relevant figure to Super Bowl LX is absent from it. The game will be played in his former home stadium, in the place where his protest made him a national lightning rod and a global symbol. The social issues swirling around America's largest sporting spectacle carry distinct echoes of what prompted his actions and what led to his exile. And yet he remains outside the conversation and invisible within the confines of the NFL.

We are in what some people call the post-news media era, or in a social media era. So many people who provide information' are influencers who are focused more on getting clicks and growing an audience than they are in providing accurate information, said Tapper to CNN chief law enforcement John Miller. And that reared its head. Tapper noted comments from Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos, who slammed the reckless reporting of the case at a press conference on Thursday.

Jeffrey Epstein is alive is simply a much better story than Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Dead is an ending. Alive is a franchise. Epstein's death was narratively unsatisfying to many, many people. There was no trial, no public reckoning, no parade of powerful names under oath. The story cut to black before the audience got what it was promised. Conspiracies rush in to fill that void not because they are persuasive, but because they keep the plot alive.

The shocking diminishment of The Washington Post, which has just announced it is cutting a third of its staff, is not just another story of a great paper succumbing to algorithms, social media, and the march to idiocracy. In their zeal to be seen as fair and evenhanded, journalists tend to accept the common criticism that they failed to adapt that, basically, they didn't produce enough viral TikTok videos. There's some truth to that, but the main problem lies elsewhere.

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An experienced Paramount staffer briefed on the change described it as "more strategic than financial," saying that consolidating Simon's position into Phillips' was done to "remove duplication." A second employee characterized the move as being done to "streamline processes" and make "Paramount easier to work with." A third Paramount insider familiar with the company's thinking said there were a few "targeted changes" on the personnel front in Paramount Advertising, "focused on reducing complexity."

For years, Irish radio was defined by stability. The voices were familiar, the schedules were predictable, the territory was clearly marked. But, as February 2026 gets underway, the war for Ireland's airwaves is very much on, with RTÉ and Newstalk ready to face off across the chessboard.

Last Tuesday, CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss announced that the longevity guru Dr. Peter Attia would be a contributor to the network, one of several high-profile hires to mark her takeover. Last Friday, in the latest congressional release of material related to the convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, Attia's name appeared over 1,700 times, including in emails discussing Epstein's sex life. In the most widely shared email between the two, from 2016, Attia joked to Epstein that "pussy is, indeed, low carb."

Spark 2026 arrives as Integrated Systems Europe's newest platform dedicated to the creative industries, taking place from 3-6 February 2026 at Fira de Barcelona Gran Via. Launched by Integrated Systems Events, Spark is conceived as a focused showcase where technology, creativity, and content production intersect, bringing together sectors such as gaming, broadcast, design, live events, and media. Powered by , the showcase leads a strong roster including Mo-Sys, 3Cat, and Lab of Tomorrow,