Russia has banned the ubiquitous street displays of the currency’s value, and perhaps nostalgia, to hide any hint of weakness. By Leonid Bershidsky. (Dec. 20, 2018)

CBS is considering ending its longstanding contract with TV ratings provider Nielsen as it looks for new ways to measure audiences in the multiplatform universe. The nation’s most-watched TV network is prepared to drop Nielsen’s measurement services if the two sides can’t come to an agreement by the end of this month, according to a person familiar with the matter. CBS’ current contract with Nielsen – valued at more than $100 million a year — expires at year’s end, the source said.

In less than three minutes, Tucker Carlson suggested immigrants make the United States “dirtier,” contradicted himself on their values and gushed over Mexicans frustrated with Central American caravans. The opening tear cost his Fox News show an advertiser, at least for now. Few advocates, if any, argue the economic merit of immigration, Carlson said in his opening monologue Thursday evening. The nation needs skilled workers, but Carlson said that is not who arrives here. (Fact check: Not true.)

Nexstar set to become the largest US operator of local TV stations after buying Tribune Media.

The publisher is trying to sell the remainder of the company to Bustle Digital Group.

Helping children distinguish fake from real news will give them a lifelong benefit. By Prateek Puri.

Mainstream media in the US is consolidated to such a point there are now 6 gigantic corporations that control 90% of the American TV and radio media stations. The consumer is fed the illusion of choice, but there are a small handful of elite individuals now dictating what you allowed to see, hear, read and, ultimately, think. Beware! The mainstream media consolidation now has a stranglehold on information and is threatening our ability to know the truth.

The companies had the option to kill the sale, announced in May 2017, if it had not closed by Aug. 8. Tribune also filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court, claiming Sinclair failed to live up to its commitment to make its best effort at getting regulatory approval.

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After decades of influence, the media mogul isn’t so much a person as an epoch

Billionaire Fidesz cashier turned harsh Orban critic Lajos Simicska is selling his entire business empire, including his media holdings, in a deal that will have enormous political and economic implications.

On the day this week that Roseanne was canceled because of a racist tweet, researchers from Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health estimated Hurricane Maria caused at least 4,645 deaths in Puerto Rico. Now that is a story. That's almost 5,000 people who may have died, more than 70 times the official government toll of 64. It is more than twice the number who died when Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005.

LA Times, Chicago Tribune and others redirect to pages saying sites are currently unavailable in most European countries

Oh, Rupert Murdoch. When we last checked in with him, he was literally begging Facebook to pay News Corp. money because (he claimed) News Corp was "enhancing the value and integrity of Facebook." We noted at the time that Murdoch -- a...

The perpetrator in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, is already a household name, although I will not name him here. He was arrested a couple of miles from the school after he killed, in a matter of minutes, 17 people and wounded 15 others.

Critics of the left aren’t oppressed and they don’t believe in “rational debate.” By Nathan J. Robinson.

Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger told CNBC on Tuesday that he remains "confident" the deal with Twenty-First Century Fox will move forward. Disney's $52 billion bid for Fox was announced in December. On Monday, sources told CNBC that Comcast is planning a $60 billion all-cash bid to acquire Fox's assets if the U.S. government approves AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner.