News organizations, book publishers, and even self-publishers with quick trigger fingers are all competing to squeeze the most value out of a PDF anyone can download for free.

The podcast audience is proving to be catnip for Democratic politicians, especially those hoping to keep it 1600 come January 2021.

Luminary gets pushback from Spotify and The New York Times: temporary glitch or the real start of the platform wars? Plus: Gimlet gets a union, a new podcast incubator, and Mueller Mueller everywhere.

The majority of the site's editorial staff resigned this morning, and the future of a much-anticipated watchdog for technology companies is very much in doubt.

The reform seeks to ensure publishers and other copyright holders are paid their fair share when their work appears online. But critics fear it could have broader implications.

Hint: It starts with impactful, inclusive journalism.

Want to read the big report? No, not the Mueller Report, the document many have thirsted after for months as the special counsel investigated Russia's influence on the 2016 elections. (You can find…

Newspaper company CEOs will be the first to tell you a new round of consolidation won't solve their problems. But it might give them another year or two of breathing room.

Yesterday, I wrote about YouTube's algorithmic screwup which somehow associated images of Notre-Dame Cathedral burning with the 9/11 attacks and embedded information about those attacks under news…

Why is another digital news organization starting a membership program? Ad revenue is unsteady or declining across the industry, and media companies of all stripes are trying to figure out where their…

The latest round in the eternal fight over social media boundaries.

Plus: How independent podcasters make money, Snap Judgment expands to a new platform, and Macs are getting a separate Podcasts app.

WHYY has acquired the digital news startup Billy Penn from Spirited Media. Public media companies have snapped up several such sites in recent years.

Always-streaming reporters, a searchable past, and new internal tools and external products: 5G will have a big impact on news, just as previous-generation networks did.

A reminder that even efforts to limit misinformation can end up spreading it instead — and that human editors watching over the algorithms can be a pretty good thing, too.

The business model is still a problem. Misinformation is still a problem. Media manipulation is still a problem. But 250 reporters gathered (at Google's Chicago office, no less) to talk about how to…

NJ Spotlight and NJTV News may be onto a trend: "Really the quality of the journalism and business model made it viable for us and make it viable for the other legacy stations around the country."

The billionaire owner on unions ("I think they did the unionize thing out of desperation"), esports ("We must start fighting for the 16-year-olds all the way to the 30-year-olds, because that's not…

The initial indictment against the WikiLeaks leader doesn't seem to implicate journalistic issues as directly as some had feared — but some still see darker impacts on reporting, and more charges…

Political polarization is a serious problem. Chris Evans, the actor who plays Captain America, hopes to unify the nation with a new outlet “aimed at reducing partisanship and promoting respectful…