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“As for the station side of the business, Sinclair executives said that M&A has been ‘very vibrant’ due to the FCC’s regulatory actions and that they continue to evaluate and see an opportunity in larger broadcast combinations.” —JB

“If, by chance, you opened Claude on Election Night and asked it for an update on he latest polling data, you would have been treated to a novel sight: up-the-minute information, provided by and attributed to the Associated Press.” —JB

“The majority of funding has been awarded to local print and online news outlets and independent local TV and radio stations. Publishers that have been selected for the funding include Mill Media, Byline Times, Leicester Gazette, NN Journal and the Island Echo.” —JB

“The legal move came days after Judge Darrin P. Gayles dismissed the defamation lawsuit with prejudice…The U.S. District Judge out of Miami noted in his ruling that Trump’s team was ‘grasping at straws’ while trying to ‘manufacture’ flaws in the initial WSJ report.” —JB

“Founded in 2022 as a project of PEN America and Bard College, Kronika has set out to digitally preserve the work of independent media and journalists at risk of being erased by censorship, persecution, or war. For months, it has been working to bring Novaya Gazeta’s entire archive online, from the earliest print newspapers to special sections and regional editions, and to make them searchable in Russian and in English.” —JB

CEO Meredith Kopit Levien “faced questions about Al-powered agents that could automatically cancel subscriptions or help consumers find cheaper alternatives, potentially threatening the recurring revenue that publishers and other subscription businesses depend on. ‘So far, we’re not seeing an impact,’ Levien said when asked whether the technology was affecting cancellations.” —JB

“Bluesky is a niche Twitter-clone frequently accused of being an echo chamber for progressives. After the blue tsunami of this week’s midterms, however, its inhabitants don’t seem to be echoing themselves so much as the vast majority of American voters.” (See also: “Republicans Learn [Twitter] is the Echo Chamber.”) —JB

“Their competing explanations — and their efforts to pin responsibility on one another — exposed deep fractures in an online ecosystem that has long been one of Trump’s most powerful political assets.” —JB

“Supporters want more than just to recreate the [Corporation for Public Broadcasting], which was built for the media environment of 1967. They hope to reinvent federal support for public media in a way that goes beyond broadcasting.” —JB