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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 Three members of the media in Washington state have filed a lawsuit against the state House of Representatives after their applications for statehouse press passes were denied over their political advocacy. All three plaintiffs have […]

☀️ 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 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! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The Federal Communications Commission has ordered an early review of ABC’s broadcast licenses, citing the network’s diversity, equity and inclusion policies. The move also follows criticism of ABC’s late-night host Jimmy Kimmel by […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The Washington Post announced sweeping layoffs on Wednesday, eliminating around one-third of its staff. Its sports, local and foreign desks were among the hardest hit.  Executive Editor Matt Murray described the cuts as necessary for the stability of the company, citing a steep decline in online traffic amid the […]

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Lachlan Murdoch, eldest son of Rupert Murdoch, will maintain corporate control of the family’s media empire in the coming decades, according to a settlement reached by the family this week. Its properties include […]

Plus, Assange says he pleaded “guilty to journalism” to end incarceration

☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story President Donald Trump is suing The Wall Street Journal and its owners, including Rupert Murdoch, for $10 billion. The lawsuit accuses the news organization of defamation over a story it published last week reporting […]