It’s hard to view the past year in the news business as anything other than testy and tumultuous. What started as a rather promising job market instead ended with an ad slowdown dominated by …
. According to the International Federation of Journalists, 12 journalists and media staff have been killed in Ukraine as of early December, the highest of any country. As the war drags on, the Biden administration and Capitol Hill lawmakers are concerned of the public losing interest, and a factor in that is the extent to which networks continue to devote resources to the conflict.
over press freedoms in Ukraine, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a law that expands government regulatory oversight.Standard General’s proposed $8.6 billion acquisition of Tegna, which has 64 stations in 51 markets, is not one of the larger media mergers of recent years, but it, with the FCC expected to complete a review early next year.