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☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which started publishing in the late 1700s and won a Pulitzer Prize as recently as 2019, will shut down on May 3. Its unionized workers recently ended a more than three-year strike after […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! The Briefing will be on hiatus until Thursday, Jan. 8. Happy holidays! ❄️ In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story This week, Netflix announced deals with iHeartMedia and Barstool Sports to publish video podcast episodes from select shows exclusively on Netflix beginning in early 2026, furthering the streaming platform’s push into podcasting.  […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story After Warner Bros. Discovery struck a deal last week to sell its studio and streaming services to Netflix, Paramount Skydance responded by launching a hostile takeover bid. But there is a key difference between the two potential transactions: While […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The Joe Rogan Experience is 2025’s top podcast across Spotify, YouTube and Apple Podcasts – the sixth straight year Joe Rogan claimed the top spot on Spotify, but the first time he topped […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! The Briefing will be on hiatus until Thursday, Dec. 4.  Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🌽 In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story President Donald Trump’s interactions with the news media have made headlines in a few different ways this week. He insulted a Bloomberg News reporter […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The BBC apologized to President Donald Trump on Thursday for the way a 2024 documentary edited a speech he gave before the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Two top BBC executives had already resigned […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Indamedia, a media group supportive of Hungarian president Viktor Orban, announced last Friday that it has acquired a handful of publications including Blikk, a popular tabloid with millions of monthly readers. Blikk’s editor-in-chief […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story According to a new Washington Post analysis, the Department of Homeland Security has released several videos of protests and law enforcement operations labeled with incorrect dates or locations on social media over the […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story New research from the European Broadcasting Union and the BBC finds that AI assistants often misrepresent news content. The study analyzed 3,000 responses to questions about the news from AI assistants, including ChatGPT, […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Fox News, the former employer of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, joined a group of news outlets refusing to sign the Pentagon’s new press policy that prohibits journalists from gathering or reporting information not officially authorized […]