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. It’s the best shot left at preventing—or at least stalling—what seems inevitable.
Jonathan Choe, “the news influencer slash journalist,” as he says, used to work in local TV. Now he is part of the MAGA-endorsed “future of independent journalism,” squeezing through cracks in the traditional press.
To Dave Zirin, a journalist who writes about sports and politics, “the newsroom just isn’t the newsroom anymore.” So he bought a bar for drinks, tacos, and gathering.
