CBS to cancel "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" next season citing financial reasons axios.com/2025/07/17/cbs…

New: I teamed up with elenashao.bsky.social and NYT Graphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote: nytimes.com/interactive/20… This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.

Late-night shows under pressure in a hyper-partisan streaming era axios.com/2025/07/18/lat…

Congress votes to strip more than $1 billion in funding for NPR, PBS axios.com/2025/07/18/npr…

Jimmy Fallon on Colbert news:

Trump sues Wall Street Journal for libel over Epstein letter axios.com/2025/07/18/wal…

🦾NEW OpenAI data on ChatGPT, breaking in Axios AM: • Globally, ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion prompts each day • 330 million (13%) are from U.S. • Vast majority use ChatGPT's free version Sam Altman's push to "democratize" AI's economic benefits ⬇️axios.com/2025/07/21/sam…

News: Jonathan Capehart, the Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion columnist, has taken a buyout at The Washington Post after 18 years with the paper - He'll continue to co-host "The Weekend" on MSNBC and as a political analyst at PBS News

Polymarket is poised to return to the U.S. axios.com/2025/07/21/pre…

h/t Matthew Belloni for getting me to watch a full episode of The Daily Show live on a Monday night Dr. Pat Soon-Shiong told Jon Stewart he plans to take Los Angeles Times public axios.com/2025/07/22/la-…

"Go f**k yourself": Colbert responds to Trump post axios.com/2025/07/22/col…

scoop: i’m @davejorgenson on bluesky (not @jdvance), one of the breakout stars of the Marty Baron era of The Post, is leaving to start his own company with two Post alums nytimes.com/2025/07/22/bus…

NEW: The Washington Post pivoting WP Ventures, its "3rd newsroom," to a more commercial venture that will live OUTSIDE of its core news brand —It will report into Suzi Watford, the company's strategy chief —Separation easier for brand integrations axios.com/2025/07/22/was…

NEW: Alden Global Capital's MediaNews Group is making a last-minute bid for The Dallas Morning News, which reached a deal with Hearst earlier this month. MediaNews offering $16.50 a share to Hearst's $14 nytimes.com/2025/07/22/bus…

🦊 NEW! breaking in @Axios AM: Charlie Kirk, MAGA's mega-influencer, will guest-co-host FOX & Friends for the first time this weekend • Double Charlie: Kirk will join Rachel Campos-Duffy & @charleshurt on the white curvy couch in NYC on both Sat and Sun axios.com/signup/am-pm

#Breaking: Paramount co-CEO Chris McCarthy will exit company once Skydance merger is completed, per a source familiar with the deal - McCarthy led MTV Entertainment and Showtime -He was w the company (previously Viacom) for more than 20yrs -Comes as FCC has finally approved deal

A new precedent has been set for corporate dealmaking in America. Hard to see how this type of pressure campaign won’t extend to all types of regulatory approval processes across sectors, as well as government contract deals. axios.com/2025/07/24/sky…

NEW: Meta will no longer accept political, election or issue ads in EU in response to a new law there axios.com/2025/07/25/met…

🚨Be curious, not judgmental-> "Be curious, not judgmental." Why it matters: Those four words can radically shift how you think and feel about politics, social media posts, your employer, and even friends and family. axios.com/2025/07/25/jim…

NEW: In a sign of what could be in store for other targets of Trump & his allies, Media Matters (Media Matters) is struggling to survive. The Dem-aligned group has racked up $15m in legal bills, dialed back its criticism of Trump & Musk & contemplated closing. nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/…