“Each year, each top executive at Condé Nast’s One World Trade Center headquarters submits a shortlist of four to six people who could replace them. The lists remain secret. But none draws more internal speculation than the one assembled by New Yorker editor David Remnick…in recent months, the longtime New Yorker editor has increasingly mused to peers about his inevitable departure — and who might take his place.”

“‘It’s like saying ‘video radio,’’ said Jay Cockburn, a radio and podcast producer for The Globe and Mail and Vocal Fry Studios. ‘It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the medium.'”

“The letter, signed by professors at colleges including New York University, University of Pennsylvania, Emory and the University of Texas, asks the Times to ‘immediately commission a group of journalism experts to conduct a thorough and full independent review of the reporting, editing and publishing processes for this story and release a report of the findings.'”

“Biden is the clear choice of voters who consume newspapers and national network news, while Trump does best among voters who don’t follow political news at all.”

“From this perspective, railing against social media for manipulating our zombie minds is like cursing the wind for blowing down a house we’ve allowed to go to rack and ruin. It distracts us from our collective failures, from the conditions that degrade confidence and leave much of the citizenry feeling disempowered.”

“Among the surprising number of critical issues that will only be decided once the regulations are issued (and perhaps survive court challenges) are the following: whether digital news organizations will be included within what the law refers to as ‘newspapers’; whether the subsidy is limited to news employees, or extends to business staff; whether eligible employees must be engaged in local news as opposed to, for instance, national or international news; and whether opinion journalism is included along with news reporting. The law itself makes no distinction between for-profits and non-profits.”

“In a crowded marketplace for interview shows, The Interview is hoping to stand out not just in the quality of its bookings, or in the brand identity of the Times, but with an interesting twist on the format as well. Every subject will be interviewed twice: Once for an initial conversation, likely in studio, and a second interview days later, over a phone call or a Zoom.”

“WhatsApp has more than 400 million users in India, making it the largest market for the platform…The messaging platform argued that the rules undermines encryption of content as well as the privacy of the users. It also violates fundamental rights of the users guaranteed under Articles 14, 19, and 21 of the Constitution of India.”

“Critics like Uri Berliner would have us believe that public radio is suffering because of liberal bias, but that’s based on the dubious premise that there is some large bloc of conservative listeners who’ve stopped listening, or that underwriters suddenly were offended by what they heard. There is no evidence for either proposition. Rather, this is a business problem, and it’s not at all clear what the solution is going to be.”

“In a three-to-two vote along party lines, the five-member commission appointed by President Biden revived the rules that declare broadband a utility-like service regulated like phones and water. The rules also give the F.C.C. the ability to demand broadband providers report and respond to outages.”