Most online political media stars traffic in highly partisan viewpoints. Tara Palmeri hopes that playing it straight will pay off. Tara Palmeri, who formerly wrote for Puck and Politico’s Playbook, ...

The cable TV bundle is making a minor comeback – with an assist from YouTube TV. Next year, Google will introduce 10 genre-specific skinny channel bundles that combine broadcast and cable channels ...

Haley Nahman was having a weird time. She had spent most of the pandemic inside, shuttling around the one-bedroom apartment she shares with her partner, Avi. “Not to paint too bleak a picture, but ...

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As TikTok’s future hangs in the balance, the newsletter platform is trying to scoop up video creators. As TikTok’s future hangs in the balance, the newsletter platform is trying to scoop up video ...

The six-year-old self-publishing platform is still a magnet for writers, but WordPress and Beehiiv are vying for market share. After last year’s retrenchment, “we’re just coming out of defensive mode, ...

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One day last June, Patti Smith opened her laptop, typed a brief message to the thousands of readers of her Substack newsletter, and hit Send. “I would be grateful for any suggestions of songs you ...

The media industry has been among the hardest hit by the pandemic. In the U.S., the media industry was besieged by more than 30,000 job cuts in 2020—an increase of more than 200% over 2019 levels.