The BBC is making a play in the US. Can it find a market?

Some puffery at CBS News. Plus: Radley Balko reads the receipts, New York magazine thieving from the New York Times, and a “high-ranking dumb” drug bust.

Real Madrid TV has indulged in outlandish theories and populist motifs to draw in audiences: “It’s the currency of our age.”

OpenAI’s Atlas and Perplexity’s Comet present a new challenge for media companies that want to limit AI access.

Even after the ceasefire, Israel has blocked members of the press from entering. The country has said “there will come a time soon” when journalists flood in—but preemptively cast doubt on the story they might cover.

Why Isaac Chotiner doesn’t mind the “gotcha” label.

A reflection on the New(s) Knowledge Symposium.

Archivists worry in particular about photographs that have never been digitized.

Larry and David Ellison are poised to become the Trump era’s reigning media moguls.

Signal Hill, a new audio magazine, embraces the weird.

Some media critics thought not.

The student stars of Indiana. Plus, Idaho women’s prisons, protests below the fold, and a whiz kid loses his cool.

The White House press secretary told him “your mom” chose Budapest as the site for a meeting with Vladimir Putin. HuffPost’s senior White House correspondent says it’s all part of America’s slide toward autocracy, and journalists must take collective action.

The Columbia professor talks about her new series about how the challenges facing journalists have evolved with the times.

When outlets depend on a single platform, what works to reach readers today can vanish tomorrow.