Who’s Behind Newsweek?

Newsweek's Financial Connections to a Bona Fide Christian Cult

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Could this be the beginning of the end for the billionaire-owned media propaganda blitz?

A campaign to free our national press from foreign billionaires like Rupert Murdoch is gaining momentum and attracting big-name support

Tommy Robinson's Temple: The Christian Conference Uniting Preachers from the Far-Right Fringe

Organisers of the "Make Great Britain Christian Again" conference include preachers linked to far-right rallies, prompting warnings that faith is being used to provide moral cover for nationalist politics

First They Built a Secular Apocalypse Belief System. Now They Want Religious Authority.

Over the weekend, a clip about “Anthropic thinks it’s building God” started making the rounds.

Beating the drums for independent press, publishers, and writers

Whose news? Whose story? Who gets to tell it?

A well-heeled liberal group is filling the local news void with Trump-bashing coronavirus ads

Local newspapers are laying off their staffs across the US, hit by the economic impact of the coronavirus. Meanwhile, a new breed of deep-pocketed local publications such as UpNorthNews in Wisconsin and The Gander Newsroom in Michigan are filling the void.

The Metric Media network runs more than 1,200 local news sites. Here are some of the non-profits funding them.

<p>This is the first part of a two-part investigation. The second piece can be found here. As local news outlets across the US struggle to stay afloat, pop-up newsrooms are filling the void. Organizations with ties to political parties, special-interest groups, and lobbyists have emerged under the guise of news. One of the biggest such […]</p>

The Media Can't Stop Propping Up Elon Musk's Phony Supergenius Engineer Mythology

"CEO said a thing!" journalism is now utterly pervasive, and includes parroting billionaire and CEO claims with a total disregard for whether or not anything being said is actually true.

Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters

On the rise of newsletter production, consumption, and monetization, and how email is one of the most powerful and resilient publishing platforms.

The BBC Is Just Nodding Along

The corporation's news coverage has lost its soul as a bulwark against unaccountable power and extremism, writes a former BBC News producer

Semafor Joins A Very Broken US Media Industry Claiming To Have Found The Cure For Eroded Trust In News. But Have They Really?

Former New York Times reporter Ben Smith and friends have launched a new media company named Semafor on the back of $25 million in donations. You might recall that one of the organiz…

The sanewashing of Elon Musk - Lawyers, Guns & Money

As Jamelle Bouie points out, Elon Musk spends a great deal of time on the social media site he owns both personally pushing and amplifying themes directly derived from prominent works of violent white supremacy, attracting very little attention from the mainstream press: Over the past month in particular, he has adopted the imagery of […]