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Byline: Sarah Ellison As he geared up for his new sideline as a newspaper publisher, biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong invited four veteran executives from other big-city papers to talk with [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison, Jonathan O'Connell and Josh Dawsey One night last month at Mar-a-Lago, Chris Ruddy positioned himself in a familiar spot: right next to Donald Trump. The occasion came [...]

Byline: Paul Farhi and Sarah Ellison A nonpartisan political organization is facing blowback from its employees after hiring journalist Mark Halperin, whose career as a prominent TV pundit hit a [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison The fate of Tribune Publishing appeared nearly sealed this week after the company said it has stopped negotiating with a Maryland multimillionaire who sought to buy the [...]

Byline: Elahe Izadi and Sarah Ellison A Wyoming-based Swiss billionaire who formed half of the consortium making a bid to buy Tribune Publishing Co. has backed out of the deal, [...]

Byline: Elahe Izadi and Sarah Ellison Last year, as a group of Baltimore Sun reporters embarked on long-shot endeavor to find a new owner that could save their paper from [...]

Byline: Elahe Izadi and Sarah Ellison Maryland business executive Stewart Bainum Jr. wants to purchase Tribune Publishing Co. for $650 million - 10 times the amount he agreed last month [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison and Elahe Izadi One month after a Maryland billionaire struck a tentative deal to return the Baltimore Sun to local ownership, the plan may be in jeopardy [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison It sounded like a riddle, the question the new boss posed to Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron in a 2013 meeting. 'Why are you taking the [...]

Byline: Elahe Izadi and Sarah Ellison Fox Business has canceled 'Lou Dobbs Tonight' one day after the host was named in a multibillion dollar defamation lawsuit against the network and [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison and Jeremy Barr Since Donald Trump's election loss in November, Sean Hannity seems to have been working through a process, live and on camera, on his nightly [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison When Martin Baron announced his upcoming retirement from The Washington Post on Tuesday, it made clear what is either a crisis or opportunity for American journalism: Several [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison NEW YORK - The Fox News executive who oversaw its election-night 'decision desk' is retiring at the end of the month, a move due in part to [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison Three days after Thanksgiving, filmmaker Laura Poitras received a blandly chipper text signaling the end of her time with the media organization she co-founded and which she [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison Maria Bartiromo is the solo host of more than 16 hours of television every week on sister networks Fox News and Fox Business. It's a number unmatched [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison During his decades on the congressional beat, John Bresnahan has spent countless hours listening to the private concerns of his congressional sources. Democrats expressed private concerns about [...]

Byline: Jeremy Barr and Sarah Ellison After four long days of uncertainty, the purveyors of mainstream media credibility - including The Washington Post, New York Times, Associated Press and all [...]

Byline: Paul Farhi and Sarah Ellison The co-founder of the digital-news site Vox will leave the organization and join the New York Times, in another sign of upheaval among start-up [...]

Byline: Elahe Izadi and Sarah Ellison Fox News cut away from White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany's remarks at a news conference Monday evening because she claimed without evidence that [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison and Josh Dawsey The last day of Donald Trump's 2020 presidential campaign began just after 7 a.m., as polls opened on the East Coast, with a call [...]

Byline: Jeremy Barr and Sarah Ellison As a wonky number-cruncher, Arnon Mishkin is probably not used to being the butt of political attacks. But that's what happened Thursday, when President [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison Fox anchor Bill Hemmer was gearing up to do another review for viewers of a map of the United States that at 11:20 p.m. was looking surprisingly [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison and Jeremy Barr Whether it was CNN beaming holograms of its far-flung correspondents onto the set, or Dan Rather's folksy play-by-play ('This race is shakier than cafeteria [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison and Jeremy Barr Spend a couple hours with Fox News on a typical weeknight, and you may come to see the potential election of Joe Biden as [...]

Byline: Paul Farhi and Sarah Ellison The mystery surrounding the identity of 'Anonymous' - the unnamed 'senior official in the Trump administration' who wrote a damning New York Times opinion [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison One morning in mid-September, Nikole Hannah-Jones woke to a text message from a friend noting an unusual event on President Donald Trump's schedule: the first 'White House [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison and Paul Farhi Since becoming the overseer of Voice of America in June, Michael Pack has fired subordinates, disbanded advisory boards and declined to renew the visas [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison and Jonathan O'Connell In the spring of 2019, the National Enquirer appeared once again to be riding out another storm in its long, tumultuous history. The gossip [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison The eldest son of the future president strode onto the stage at the 2016 Republican National Convention in a gray suit with his hair slicked back, awash [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison and Elahe Izadi This is what was on Thomas Chatterton Wiliams's mind when he decided to write a short letter on the risks to liberalism and open [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison After an inquiry from a reporter, it took less than a day for Fox News to receive the resignation of Tucker Carlson's chief writer, who was exposed [...]

Byline: Elahe Izadi and Sarah Ellison Fox News veteran Shepard Smith, who abruptly departed the network last year, will host a news program on CNBC starting this fall. 'The News [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison WASHINGTON - On Monday, President Donald Trump's long-deferred pick to head the U.S. Agency for Global Media, finally started work after a bruising, two-year Senate confirmation battle. [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison Ask Heath Freeman why he got into the newspaper business and the explanation is specific and bloodless. It was 2009, and the Great Recession was forcing many [...]

Byline: Jada Yuan and Sarah Ellison NEW YORK - ore than a week into demonstrations that saw peaceful protesters swarmed by police in riot gear and his own daughter placed [...]

Byline: Elahe Izadi, Paul Farhi and Sarah Ellison What began as an undercurrent of newsroom grumbling built into an unusual Twitter tidal wave of public outrage among journalists at the [...]

Byline: Paul Farhi and Sarah Ellison Megyn Kelly says she became curious about Tara Reade from the intermittent and irregular bursts of news coverage about her accusations against Joe Biden. [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison and Elahe Izadi Andy Lack, who has served as chairman of NBC News and MSNBC for five years after a longtime affiliation with the company, is stepping [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison and Elahe Izadi Andy Lack, who has served as chairman of NBC News and MSNBC for five years after a longtime affiliation with the company, is stepping [...]

Byline: Sarah Ellison and Elahe Izadi In the darkest moment of Trump's candidacy, when so many had abandoned him in the wake of the infamous 'Access Hollywood' tape, Kayleigh McEnany [...]