Axios agrees to sell to Cox for $525 million in cash
"Axios" is Greek for "worthy" — and now we know how much the company is worth, less than six years after its news site debuted.
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Authors and bookstore owners worry a big publishing merger will affect diversity
The proposed merger between Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster will likely change things for authors and readers - for better or worse
Republicans have long feuded with the mainstream media. Now many are shutting them out
A trend of GOP candidates ignoring or actively avoiding legacy media — particularly national outlets — is building this year. That can hamper voters' ability to make informed choices.
Many Republicans on the campaign trail are shunning mainstream press
Republican candidates for public office are now commonly refusing to grant access to reporters from mainstream national news media, often speaking to friendly partisan press.
Why conservatives invited Hungary's autocratic leader to headline Dallas event
Hungary's prime minister Viktor Orbán, who has suppressed civil liberties and intimidated media and corporate critics, will address the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas.
News brief: Blinken attends ASEAN meeting, Viktor Orbán, curtailing drug prices
Secretary of State Blinken is attending a meeting of southeast Asian nations. Hungary's leader will speak at the CPAC event in Dallas. Democrats may make gains against high prescription drug prices.
'Rough Translation': Redefining local news in an interconnected world
A hyper-local news site in New York started accepting stories from a writer in Ukraine. Why was the outlet covering a story taking place thousands of miles away?
Alex Jones concedes that the Sandy Hook attack was '100% real'
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones testified that he now understands it was irresponsible of him to declare the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre a hoax.
Remembering alternative radio pioneer Larry Josephson
Josephson, who died July 27, started out in 1966 as the host of a free-form morning show on WBAI in New York He later hosted shows and told jokes on many public radio stations.
2 podcasts look back at the messy decades of the American counter-culture
Mother Country Radicals explores the history of the militant left-wing group the Weather Underground. I Was Never There tells the story of a regional hippie folk hero who disappeared in the late '80s.