Margot Susca

What’s worse are the tens of millions $ in management fees private investment firms took in years corporate newspaper chains like Gannett and GateHouse laid off reporters claiming ad losses. www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

this is like a reverse "daisy." an ad so reprehensible that it detonates the candidate's campaign. tiffinohio.net/posts/acton-...

“Remember: always be truthful, not neutral.” buff.ly/4Rr4YCj

“Virtually all the new news sources are in urban areas, while rural America is increasingly arid news and information territory.” buff.ly/NWAaDX3

A massive, and massively underrated, threat to a functioning democracy. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/11/u...

But Paramount Skydance + Warner Bros. 🦗🦗🦗 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...

As local news shrinks, public and nonprofit outlets are experimenting. Chicago Public Media, for one, is building a digital gathering place for five of its city’s neighborhoods. https://latamjournalismreview.org/articles/nonprofit-news-is-betting-on-unorthodox-ways-to-grow/

Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.

The Cornell Daily Sun is doing what journalism at its best can and should do. Reporters are asking difficult questions, challenging institutional silence and refusing to let a serious allegation disappear into bureaucracy and delay. www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.

The US ranks 64th on Reporters Without Borders press freedom ranking this year plunging from 42nd in 2022. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/09...

McClatchy owner Chatham Asset Management manages more than $8 billion in assets. www.lpm.org/news/2026-09...

ABC files First Amendment lawsuit against the FCC. www.axios.com/2026/08/18/a...

New: The White House on Monday leveled a sharply personal attack against CNN reporter Kristen Holmes, invoking her children in the process. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

It is journalistic malpractice for the New York Times to allow David Ellison to write this. ‘I believe this fight is not really about market share. If it were, it wouldn’t have been reviewed or approved by regulators reflecting 65 countries, including the United States…’

David Ellison asks New York Times readers to judge “us by the year we just had.” So let’s look at a few figures he failed to include about the year since his family took over Paramount…. U.S. Layoffs: 1,000 Int’l Layoffs: 1,600 Fired: Scott Pelley & Cecilia Vega www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...

This is, of course, absurd for any democratic society worthy of the name. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/b...

Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.

Just hours after Warner Bros shareholders approved Paramount's takeover, Trump was the guest of honor at David Ellison's pre-Correspondents Dinner event. Trump must also approve the deal. The irony of honoring someone who attacks the media would be rich — if the whole situation weren't so corrupt.

Ann Telnaes on this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

More than a decade ago, when the United States was a much different place, The Denver Post got attention in some circles for not having anything about Easter on the front page and instead dedicating it to coverage of cannabis 4/20 rally. That's what was "controversial" on this holiday in 2014.

"I found out about the death of Renée Good and Alex Pretti from Signal chats before it was posted on any other published source." Our first installment in News Diaries, a new series on people's habits for finding and consuming news. www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/news...

Today at 3pm ET: @transjournalists.org is hosting an interactive workshop — led by @rcfp.org's @a-marshall-plan.bsky.social — that will guide journalists through the FOIA request process, how to find stories in records, and more. Info: https://members.transjournalists.org/event-6611805

Striking Down Pentagon Press Limits, Judge Vindicates Independent Journalism www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

Exactly as the Ellisons intended, more bad news for the storied national broadcaster CBS.

Expect more layoffs and even less local news now that the FCC has approved the $6.2 billion Nexstar-Tegna deal. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

@aramsinn.bsky.social hosting former Washington Post editor and foreign correspondent Alisa Tang for a talk on journalism and resurrection after being fired by a billionaire.

SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors. My report:

Kristi Noem...welcome to Dancing with the Stars!

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Mullin’s real national debut was challenging Teamsters president Sean O’Brien to a back alley brawl. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaRV...

C’mon NYT! We all could use a break. 🐝

Enjoyed being a guest on @wbai.org’s Frontline Voices show discussing the sweeping democratic implications and cultural impacts of the $110 billion Paramount / Warner Bros. merger. Two of the country’s most important news channels—CBS and CNN—will become tools of the billionaire Ellison family.

At some point you wonder not just if insiders using information to place bets, but maybe also reshaping their advice to make those bets profitable.

A list of news outlets and social media sites whose billionaire owners, investors or parent companies also have U.S. government defense contracts: Axios CBS NBC The Washington Post TikTok YouTube X Soon: CNN

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

The spiked James Talarico interview CBS corporate doesn’t want Americans to see. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

Wow.

I talked to @aljazeera.com about the FCC. What a time to be finishing a book about media billionaires. www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...

Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):

2026…so far.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand. Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Washington Post laid off its reporter covering Amazon. From @columjournreview.bsky.social

Framing Washington Post layoffs as anything other than a billionaire owner killing journalism to curry favor with the government he does business with is journalistic malpractice. You think the guy who owns Amazon hasn’t figured out digital?

Democracy dies in the bright light of billionaire ownership.

I mean, it's a really weird time to have written a book about all of this but also feel like you just scratched the surface of the terribleness.