“Young Americans, people of color, and people without college degrees increasingly get their information about the world from nontraditional sources … Echelon found that 58 percent of voters have not paid for any news in the last year. About 40 percent of voters say they pay for a cable or streaming service that includes a news channel. But the number of people paying to read journalism directly is shrinking to a tiny minority. Only 12 percent of voters said they have paid to subscribe to one or more news sources in the last year.”

“The fear of robots replacing authors is a false binary. I see it as the beginning of two diverging markets, readers who want to connect with other humans across time and space, or readers who are satisfied with a customized on-demand content pellet fed to them by the big computer so they never have to be challenged again.” – Daniel Kibblesmith, who received the letter from HarperCollins. Bloomberg reports HarperCollins made the deal with Microsoft.

“Even before 250,000 digital readers unsubscribed from The Washington Post in protest, the paper was on track to lose at least as much money as it lost last year: $77 million.”

The Daily’s episode “Harris Baits Trump: Inside Their Fiery Debate” was the third most-popular episode after a Crime Junkie episode and Joe Rogan’s interview with Donald Trump.

“Nine out of ten read news at some point over the month on publisher websites and apps (including the BBC). Seven out of ten visited publisher newsbrands (so websites or apps from current or former newspaper publishers, not including the likes of the BBC) in the month. U.K. young people read six news articles per day on average (looking at the whole sample across the month-long period).

“Bluesky’s exiled Trump-era Twitter resistance posters have given it something quite valuable to a new social network: a coherent identity. Bluesky users like to say that they’re having more fun than people on other networks, but my sense is that their fun comes largely from the fact that they know why they are there. It’s an environment for like-minded people to learn, to express outrage, to grieve, to support, and to plan. Given that Trump is about to give them an inexhaustible supply of (legitimate!) outrage over the next four years, that strong identity could serve as a durable engine for community building.”

“We expect the new lead author to keep developing the vision, scope, and substance of the report in close collaboration with senior colleagues at the Institute. He or she will do so in collaboration with the research team and his/her responsibilities will include questionnaire design, question testing, and decisions about including supplementary research and other sources of data.”

“In the third quarter of 2024, the median North American brand was selling only 71 digital subscriptions per 1 million online users, while it sold 203 subscriptions four years earlier.”

“Until now, it’s relied on third-party vendors to sell Apple News ads, limiting the revenue potential for itself and the thousands of publishers that distribute content on the free version of Apple News.”

“Now that he is back in office, compared to networks like NewsMax and OANN and lots of podcasts and lots of websites, it’s mainstream,” said Wendy Via, the co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism and an expert on far-right politics in the US. “[Fox News] will be the place that all of his cronies, all these people that he’s going to appoint or nominate, they’re gonna go and sing his praises.”

“There has been a gradual flow of users from X toward rival platforms since Elon Musk bought the network in October 2022, but the influx has accelerated since the tech entrepreneur became closely involved with Donald Trump’s re-election campaign and then his fledgling second administration.”

“If you are feeling self-congratulatory in any way, when you’re going into trying to understand something, you have a problem,” Hansen explained. “You have to keep pushing deeper and deeper and deeper into understanding while remaining open-minded to the possibilities.”