A continuing news file on the media industry: acquisitions and investments, launches and closures, editorial layoffs and union agreements, platform policy changes affecting distribution, and senior appointments. Items note what the move implies about a company's finances or strategy. Read by people whose employer or competitors appear in it.
From the NYT's December 2023 suit against OpenAI to Dow Jones and the New York Post taking Perplexity to court, publishers chose litigation as a business strategy — with mixed results so far.
Amara Okonkwo · March 17, 2026
The divest-or-ban saga ended with a deal signed January 22, 2026: Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX each hold 15 percent, ByteDance 19.9 — and the audience barely flinched.
Amara Okonkwo · February 23, 2026
Meta's January 2025 switch to community notes cut funding to the third-party fact-checking network and changed what publishers' platform traffic is worth.
Amara Okonkwo · January 31, 2026
Licensing deals multiplied after Cloudflare's default AI-bot blocking in July 2025, Meta started signing in December, and referral decline stopped being a prediction.
Amara Okonkwo · January 8, 2026