New submitter salyavin writes: The final issue of Linux Format has been released. After 25 years the magazine is going out with a bang. Interviewing the old staff members, and looking back at old Linux distros […] The last 10-15 years have been absol…

Wired’s web site “is going to stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act,” their global editorial director announced this week:

They’re called public records for a reason, after …

The Los Angeles Times publishes a weekly “Boiling Point” newsletter about climate change and energy issues. And this week they examined whether the scientific fact of a change climate is reflected in the mass media:
For the second year running, nonprof…

CNN decries “false and bizarre” news stories being published by Microsoft on MSN.com, “one of the world’s most trafficked websites and a place where millions of Americans get their news every day.”

Microsoft’s decision to increasingly rely on the use …

The Washington Post looks at the “millions of independent creators reshaping how people get their news, especially the youngest viewers.”

News consumption hit a tipping point around the globe during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, with mor…

70 million Americans live in a county without a newspaper, according to a 2022 report cited in this editorial by the Washington Post’s editorial board”
Who’s to blame? The internet, mostly. Whereas deep-pocketed advertisers formerly relied on newspape…

Rupert Murdoch is stepping down as chair of Fox and News Corp, after building a media empire over seven decades that revolutionized news and entertainment and made him one of the world’s most influential and controversial tycoons. WSJ: Murdoch, 92 year…

Vice Media Group is planning to sell to investors for about $400 million — a fraction of its once high-flying $5.7 billion valuation back in 2017. The investors include Fortress Investment Group and Soros Fund Management, according to the Wall Street …

“Vice Media Group appears to be the latest digital media company in trouble,” writes longtime Slashdot reader DesScorp. “The New York Times reports that the company is preparing for bankruptcy after being unable to find a buyer. Vice canceled Vice News…