NEW: CNN poaches WaPo vet Philip Rucker — He is joining the network after two decades (!) with The Post — His new title is SVP, editorial strategy and news — Oliver Darcy scooped this was coming last week More Axios: axios.com/2025/01/21/cnn…

confirmed — Peter is the Washington Post's new managing editor. Release below:

The New York Times responds to the Pentagon's Trumpy workspace changes by saying "steps designed to impede access are clearly not in the public interest." Here's the full statement: "This move to expel The Times and other independent, fact-based news outlets from the Pentagon’s

New media thing! semafor.com/article/02/02/…

Elon Musk’s cost-cutting project flags more than $8 million in spending on Politico -- just a sliver of the publisher's approximately $250 million in revenue. wsj.com/business/media… via The Wall Street Journal

The Atlantic, Politico, Vox Media, Condé Nast, McClatchy and other major publishers are suing AI startup Cohere for copyright and trademark infringement, escalating the news industry’s legal battle over the technology wsj.com/business/media…

“when prompted to pull an article the Guardian published on Oct. 7, 2024, titled, “‘The pain will never leave’: Nova massacre survivors return to site one year on,” …Cohere referenced an entirely different, and nonexistent article”-Alexandra Bruell wsj.com/business/media…

Latest exclusive from @vranicawsj - A lawyer at IPG fielded a phone call in December from a lawyer at X. The message was clear: Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk’s social-media platform, or else... wsj.com/business/media… via The Wall Street Journal

A statement from Newsmax on the Trump administration's barring of The Associated Press. Newsmax was one of dozens of media orgs that signed a letter to the White House in support of The A.P.

Scoop Puck: Politico White House correspondent and WHCA President Eugene Daniels is leaving Politico to join MSNBC, where he will co-host a weekend roundtable show.

All the terrific reporting from WIRED about DOGE is driving loads of subscriptions. It's awesome to see. apnews.com/article/elon-m…

Jeff Bezos offered his clearest vision yet for the Washington Post’s future, saying the paper’s opinion page would focus on the support and defense of  “personal liberties and free markets” -- via Alexandra Bruell wsj.com/business/media… via The Wall Street Journal

Update from a source on the Los Angeles Times buyouts: Roughly 48 people in the newsroom took buyouts, with the largest group (~16 people) coming from the reporting ranks. About eight are managers. This is a pretty significant chunk of the remaining staff.

Changes Google made to product-review sites were supposed to help provide better search results. They have caused an existential crisis for some publishers and freelance writers. wsj.com/business/media… via The Wall Street Journal

Back after a long mat leave. Thank you, WSJ! Help a momma out and send some scoops, please.

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Scoop: Amazon to pay New York Times at least $20 million a year in AI deal wsj.com/business/media…

Dotdash Meredith is rebranding as People Inc. Also fun (and, in some cases, sad) charts showing digital traffic for a handful of iconic magazine brands. wsj.com/business/media… via Isabella Simonetti The Wall Street Journal