Part 4: In our final episode, the Capital Gazette is swept up in the troubles of the newspaper industry. Its corporate owners are making painful cuts, and a hedge fund with an ominous reputation seeks control. Staff members, who survived the 2018 shooting and kept the Capital going, wonder if the paper can last.

How did influencers become our moral authorities?

Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. At the end of a trying 2020, here’s what they had to say.

“To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform.”

Peter Kafka has been speaking to the most important people in media for the last decade. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Is it time for concede this old battle and accept that video podcasts are a thing?

A square deal for Tidal’s high-quality streams.

Did you miss Twitter’s early days? TikTok’s too? Clubhouse is your new chance.

He started making tech review videos when he was 15. Now 24, he’s a YouTube powerhouse.

The host, P.J. Vogt, and a senior reporter, Sruthi Pinnamaneni, each apologized after former colleagues accused them of working against union organizers and “multiple efforts to diversify.”

The big platforms finally policed Donald Trump. But there’s no one — really — to police the platforms except their owners and employees.

Image via Pixabay Peruse a newsstand full of men’s magazines and you’ll probably notice a few common themes. The cover either features a bikini model or a suit-clad male celebrity. Inside, you’ll find stories meant to appeal to what many in the mid-20th century would have considered the “ideal” man -- articles about scotch, cigars, and custom suits.

Marques Brownlee on how he is scaling his brand

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Huge investments, mergers and experiments prove that getting into audio content is a lucrative move for publishers – but 2021 could be the year the dream of the open podcast economy dies an ignominious death. Chris Sutcliffe rounds up the year as part of our Media Moments 2020 report. Many, many deals have stalled or been delayed […]

On this special subscriber video call, we will walked through our brand-new list of the 50 most promising early- and mid-stage private venture-backed startups. The companies, identified through months of detailed reporting, span fintech, robotics, video streaming, gaming, automation software and more. We walked through the reporting, including lots of previously unknown financial details, that informed our rankings and what we're paying attention to as we work on the next version of this list.

Salesforce-Slack and Penguin-Simon & Schuster both show a failure to enforce antitrust laws creates monopolies.