A number of news organizations–including NBC News, The New York Times, and NPR–were informed on Friday that they would be losing office space at the Pentagon. Those changes are part of a new annual media rotation program announced by the Department of Defense. Going into effect on Feb. 14, the program will see NBC and…
President Donald Trump’s stiff 25% import tariffs imposed on Canada and Mexico over the weekend–plus a 10% tariff on Chinese goods–has already triggered counter-tariffs, trade wars, and threats of legal cases. Mexico’s tariffs have been delayed by one month, Bloomberg reported. For marketers whose brands want to continue doing business with the U.S.’s three major…
The National Transportation Safety Board has announced it won’t email reporters information about its investigations into the Philadelphia or Washington, D.C. air crashes anymore. “For media covering the airplane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia–all NTSB updates about news conferences or other investigative information will be posted to this X account,” it wrote on Elon Musk’s…
The conservative news publisher The Dispatch, which first launched on Substack in 2019, is staffing up and expanding its advertising business amid a nationwide shift in political sentiment. The 27-person outlet generated between $5 million and $10 million in revenue last year, nearly 80% of which came from its roughly 45,000 paying subscribers. Of the…
We’re only 10 days into President Donald Trump’s second administration, and the flurry of activity within the White House has set the country on its ear. Which is exactly why Alex Wagner is ready to listen. The MSNBC anchor is spending Trump’s first 100 days back in the Oval Office criss-crossing the U.S. to uncover…
Live from Washington, D.C., it’s the latest edition of MSNBC Live. The cable network’s in-person event division is co-hosting the fourth and final Democratic National Committee leadership forum alongside Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service on Jan. 30. This is the last forum before the Feb. 1 elections that will determine the DNC’s…
There’s a new administration in the White House–and a new class of journalists will be covering it. President Donald Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt presided over the first press conference of the second Trump era on Tuesday and revealed that, going forward, the briefing room door would be open to podcasters, social media influencers, and…
Viewers tuning into Monday’s edition of the CBS Evening News will be greeted by a reimagined broadcast that returns to the newscast’s New York roots–with a new ensemble team of journalists. In place of Norah O’Donnell, John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois will be co-anchoring the Evening News out of the famed Studio 47 within CBS…
Meta has added a new topic to the list of its recent right-leaning actions, as several providers of abortion pills experienced issues that have been intensifying over the past two weeks, according to The New York Times. Posts from two of those companies were blocked, blurred, or removed on Facebook and Instagram, while several abortion…
Former Spectrum News 1 anchor Loretta Boniti will join the Department of State Treasurer as the Director of Strategic Communications and Media Relations. Boniti was a political anchor and senior political reporter for more than 16 years at Spectrum News. She is the new director of strategic communications and media relations under State Treasurer Brad…
The new administration has brought with it new social media conspiracy theories. Facebook and Instagram users in the U.S. claimed that they were being forced to follow President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance’s accounts, while TikTok users hinted at an unwelcome change in the application’s algorithm. Among the Facebook and Instagram users complaining…
The success of advertising rests on clear, concise, and culturally considerate communication. Yet only 22 days into 2025, legal mandates and corporate maneuvers would suggest that facts are not important to consider when crafting what we say, how we say it, or how we show it. Everyone was left a little shaken following Mark Zuckerberg’s…
The numbers are in and 24.589 million total viewers watched President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, per Nielsen Media Research. That viewership spanned 15 networks, and peaked at 34.4 million during the 12:15 p.m. ET quarter-hour when Trump took the oath of office. (All times Eastern.) Not surprisingly, Fox News led the way in viewership….
Just hours after taking office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday night instructing the attorney general’s office to delay enforcing the law that banned TikTok in the U.S. effective Sunday for 75 days, The New York Times reported. While signing the order, Trump told reporters, “The U.S. should be entitled to get half…
Donald Trump was sworn in as America’s 47th president on a chilly Monday in Washington, D.C. President Trump took the oath of office a little after Noon/ET inside the U.S. Capitol rotunda. “From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world,” Trump said in his 30-minute inaugural address….
As the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the TikTok ban, brands and publishers are grappling with how to maintain their connection to young consumers. The reality of losing TikTok has sparked reactions ranging from strategic reevaluation to outright panic. However, history shows us that platforms evolve, algorithms shift, and audiences adapt. Here’s what marketers need to…
President-elect Donald Trump is set to begin his second term in the Oval Office on Monday, Jan. 20. The Inauguration Day ritual will attract considerable attention as Trump returns to office with a tighter grasp on the various branches of power. In addition to Republican control of the House and Senate, he also has a…
TikTok has told advertisers that it will automatically pause ad campaigns in the U.S. starting January 19, three agency executives told ADWEEK. TikTok will likely be banned in the U.S. on that date, unless it gets a last-minute reprieve. However, historical data, campaign performance reports, and creative assets will remain accessible, according to Shuree Jones,…
President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office the day after the law banning TikTok in the U.S. goes into effect, is reportedly mulling an executive order that would stay the ban by 60 days or 90 days to allow time for negotiating a sale of the application by Chinese parent company ByteDance, or some other alternative….
Take a stroll down a Target aisle and you might spot the period care brand August. You’d have TikTok’s algorithm to thank for that. After launching in 2020, August gained traction on TikTok with co-founder Nadya Okamoto’s viral video about traditional pads taking 800 years to decompose, compared to August’s six to 12 months. The…
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