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A suddenly roofless Tropicana Field. A construction crane toppling over and crashing into the Tampa Bay Times offices. Those are some of the searing images that aired on the major networks when Hurricane Milton made landfall on the Florida Peninsula Wednesday night as a Category 3 storm. (TVNewser) As Hurricane Milton approached Florida, meteorologists were…

The European Union’s top court sided with a privacy challenge to Meta’s data retention policies. It ruled Friday that social networks, such as Facebook, cannot keep using people’s information for ad targeting indefinitely. (TechCrunch) “Following this ruling, only a small part of Meta’s data pool will be allowed to be used for advertising–even when users…

The vice presidential debate between Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz drew 43.1 million viewers Tuesday night, significantly fewer than the face-off between the vp candidates in 2020, according to Nielsen. (NYT) An average of 9.1 million people tuned into CBS, which hosted the debate, followed by 7.7 million who watched on…

The Today couch will look a little different in 2025. Hoda Kotb revealed on air Thursday morning that she will be leaving NBC News’ flagship morning show early next year. (TVNewser) In a memo to her team–and later in an emotional on-air reveal Thursday–Kotb said her 60th birthday this summer helped trigger the departure: “I…

The defamation trial pitting Newsmax Media against Smartmatic ended the same day it began. Hours after jury selection commenced Thursday at the Leonard L. Williams Justice Center in Wilmington, Del., the network announced that a settlement had been reached in the case. (TVNewser) Smartmatic sued Newsmax–along with a host of other conservative media companies and…

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ Infowars media platform and its assets will be sold off piece by piece in auctions this fall to help pay the more than $1 billion he owes relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook (Conn.) Elementary School shooting, under an order expected to be approved by a federal judge. (AP) Infowars’…

The East Coast media world was rocked by the news that political journalist Olivia Nuzzi had been suspended by New York magazine after an alleged affair with former 2024 presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Former CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy broke the news in his Status newsletter. (TVNewser) Nuzzi did not proactively disclose her…

Axel Springer struck a deal that will see its media assets–which include Politico, Business Insider, and newspapers Bild and Die Welt–hived off into a private company with the aim of building an international digital news media powerhouse. (The Guardian) Axel Springer’s profitable classifieds businesses are to become separately held entities under U.S. firm KKR and…

Macollvie Neel, editor of The Haitian Times, was ready to start her workday from home Monday when her doorbell rang. What she thought might be a delivery turned out to be more than a half-dozen police officers. “I looked and there were police cruisers outside my house,” Neel recalled Tuesday in an interview with CNN….

The Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation unveiled its design for a National Mall monument honoring journalists killed in the line of duty, representing the first memorial for slain journalists on federal grounds. (The Daily Beast) The concept designs come as part of a lengthy but necessary regulatory process before the anticipated completion of the Fallen Journalists…