Amos Barshad is the staff writer and senior Delacorte fellow at CJR. He was previously on the staff of New York magazine, Grantland, and The Fader and is the author of No One Man Should Have All That Power: How Rasputins Manipulate the World.
State attorneys general are trying to stop Paramount Skydance from merging with Warner Bros. Discovery. Itâs the best shot left at preventingâor at least stallingâwhat seems inevitable.
Jonathan Choe, âthe news influencer slash journalist,â as he says, used to work in local TV. Now he is part of the MAGA-endorsed âfuture of independent journalism,â squeezing through cracks in the traditional press.