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As far as book launches go, the publication of Prince Harry’s memoir this week was the type of rollout that mere mortals can only dream of. A flurry of headline-making prerelease leaks preceded a press blitz of epic proportions: sit-downs with 60 Minutes and Good Morning America here and with ITV in Great Britain; a […]

It’s never a good thing, especially when you’re running for president of the United States, to have to say: “My company has been convicted of more than one dozen crimes that prosecutors say I explicitly sanctioned.” It’s just not a great look! Unfortunately for Donald Trump, that’s exactly the look he’ll be sporting on the […]

In August 2018, an economic miracle for the ages took place. Eleven years after a 26-year-old Jared Kushner plunked down a record-setting $1.8 billion on an aging Midtown skyscraper (on the eve of the financial crisis, no less), and just six months before the Kushner family would have to come up with the $1.4 billion […]

One of the most vile things to come out of the state of Florida in recent years has been the Parental Rights in Education Act, a.k.a. “Don’t Say Gay.” Signed into law in March, the legislation—which prohibits classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in any way in kindergarten through third grade—was introduced by Florida state […]

A sea of red shirts filled the half block outside The New York Times headquarters in Manhattan, spilling out onto the street; Scabby, the 12-foot inflatable rat with bloodshot eyes and a festering underbelly sat next to a cardboard box of extra signs: “NEW YORK TIMES WALKS OUT.” On Thursday, after months of building newsroom […]

Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder and former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was arrested and taken into custody in the Bahamas Monday on multiple criminal counts, including wire fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering, the New York Times reported. His indictment was officially unsealed Tuesday, revealing another notable charge: campaign finance violations. Prosecutors in the Southern District of […]

The Washington Post Guild went into Wednesday’s town hall with a plan. Anticipating that publisher Fred Ryan wasn’t going to take live questions—he wasn’t so happy the last time he was publicly confronted by a staffer in such a forum—they’d crowd-sourced a list of questions in advance and got more than 70 staffers to send a version of these […]

Earlier this week, Donald Trump took to Truth Social tease the news that he would be making a “MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT” on Thursday. Given that he already announced last month that he will be running for president for a third time, it was difficult to imagine what this new all-caps reveal could possibly be about. Would […]

Can Chris Licht Turn CNN Around? Licht’s confidantes and advisers must have been beaming when James Stewart’s long-awaited New York Times profile landed on December 18, like a warm bundle of holiday cheer. (Licht’s boss, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, gave the piece a hearty plug on Instagram.) After months of rough and relentless […]

It was this time last year that New York Times media columnist Ben Smith announced he’d be giving up one of the most coveted jobs in journalism. The former BuzzFeed editor’s abrupt departure quickly sparked a guessing game among media-watchers and members of the newsroom as to who would take his place. While Smith went on […]