“On Tuesday evening, newly installed CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil closed out just his second official broadcast with a surreal segment: a glowing tribute to Secretary of State Marco Rubio…the broadcast aired a montage of A.I.-generated memes depicting Rubio in a variety of imagined roles — including as the head of Hilton Hotels. ‘Marco Rubio, we salute you,’ Dokoupil declared. ‘You are the ultimate Florida man.'”

“The London Post meanwhile continues to publish with impunity masquerading as a bona fide local news source…Looking into The London Post and the rest of 2Trom’s media outlets revealed no real journalists, no real editor and no newsroom.”

“News publishers have been here before, chasing the promise of video, shifting strategies to appease the algorithm gods, hoping to reinvent themselves before the ground beneath them shifts again. But this latest pivot involves news publishers trying to take more control into their own hands.”

“The Federalist’s [Shawn] Fleetwood shared photos of Hegseth speaking to sailors and swearing in military recruits. His two previous articles for the right-wing news site included a list of the ’10 biggest media hoaxes of 2025′ and an essay titled, ‘Ladies, You’re Loading The Dishwasher All Wrong. Here’s How To Do It The Right Way.'”

“By October, Gemini had more than 650 million monthly users, up from 450 million in July.”

“I think that everyone should be asking themselves, if the business model of the internet is going to change, what are the things we want to keep, what are the things that we want to change, and then how do we set the incentives up in such a way to change it?”

“An attempt to report on electoral misconduct and vote tampering within one major political society resulted in a legal threat within twenty minutes of offering right of reply; reportage of harassment in another political society earned us a lawyer’s letter from their president…It does seem that the students most conspicuously vying for a seat in the Commons, all too often wealthy, male presidents of political societies, are learning where the media’s jugular is.”

—Luke Dennis, general manager of Ohio public radio station WYSO, on the boom in "rage-giving" public media outlets saw in the wake of Donald Trump's elimination of federal funding (The Guardian / Stephen Starr)

“The news industry is broadly under pressure, but journalism targeted at decision makers is ‘relatively healthy,’ Justin Smith said.”

“A look inside Elon Musk’s big tent.”

“These agreements typically allow tech companies to use publishers’ content to train large language models (often including paywalled content). In exchange, publishers get attribution for their content surfaced in AI chatbots or search platforms, as well as access to technology that publishers can use to build Al-powered products and features.”

“Trump’s America is becoming a hybrid system in which formal legality remains intact while outcomes are determined by political favor. In this system, CNN does not need to be nationalized. Its parent company only needs to believe that independence is too expensive.”