Ethan May
@EthanMayJ
Audience Engagement Manager at NBCU Local Previously: @washingtonpost @PostOpinions, @IndyStar, @CoMissourian. @mujschool alum. 📢 Pay for local news. 📢
Hey journalists, here's your daily reminder that it's an honor to tell someone's story. Never forget that.
substack! A.I.! Local newspapers! Inside "Ripple," The Post's plan to dramatically increase the scope of opinion writing it publishes nytimes.com/2025/06/03/bus…
NEW: @washingtonpost pivoting WP Ventures, its "3rd newsroom," to a more commercial venture that will live OUTSIDE of its core news brand —It will report into Suzi Watford, the company's strategy chief —Separation easier for brand integrations axios.com/2025/07/22/was…
"The only AI-related business strategy that makes any sense whatsoever is one where media companies and journalists go to great pains to show their audiences that they are human beings." 404media.co/the-medias-piv…
“So what’s working? Original reporting can break through the noise and even overcome, at times, the hurdles that social-media companies have created” nymag.com/intelligencer/…
"Google's Offerwall tool can serve short ads and surveys to readers in exchange for access to publishers' content. The tech giant said publishers can display custom options like newsletter sign-ups, single-visit micropayments or subscription enrollment." axios.com/2025/07/08/goo…
Scoop: CNN quietly relaunched its FAST channel CNN Headlines last week - Now has original, live programming - Anchor for new live hours expected to be announced soon @axios axios.com/2025/07/08/cnn…
WBD’s decision to split into two, marks the latest in a long line of corporate shake-ups that have created headwinds for iconic media brands - We’ve placed decades worth of M&A history into one chart below - Subscribe to @axios Media Trends for more: axios.com/signup/media-t…
81 Years Ago Today...The most important weather forecast in history occurred! It was done, by James Stagg, 'the meteorologist who saved the world', forecasting for D-Day during World War II! Really good article from The New York Times below! nytimes.com/2025/06/05/wea……
ESPN chairman says network still interested in MLB deal despite opt-out trib.al/OVrik1x
Large tornado moving through St. Louis as seen from the Arch. #mowx #stlwx 📸: Gateway Arch Park and EarthCam
More video that illustrates the sheer power and intensity of the storm from St. Louis today #mowx #Tornado
PLANES 'BUMP' AT DCA: An American Airlines plane "bumped into" another plane on the taxiway at DCA. Here's what Congress members sitting on the clipped plane say happened: nbc4dc.com/EL1Q5sO
"A tech platform can single-handedly rebuild a creative industry if its incentives are aligned." axios.com/2025/03/18/an-…
Val Kilmer, a homegrown Hollywood actor who tasted leading-man stardom as Jim Morrison and Batman, but whose protean gifts and elusive personality also made him a high-profile supporting player, has died at 65. nytimes.com/2025/04/01/mov…
“Collectively, the AI search engines provided incorrect answers to more than 60% of queries.” ~ @CJR 🔗 cjr.org/tow_center/we-…
NEW: Big changes coming to @washingtonpost newsroom — Splitting National desk, separating out politics — Combining biz, tech, science, health, climate — Print getting siloed — Changes meant to broaden coverage/audience More on @axios axios.com/2025/03/10/was…
The AI newsletters have expanded Patch's reach from 1,100 U.S. communities to 30,000 in just a few months. Of Patch's 3 million newsletter subscribers nationally, 400,000 subscribe to its new AI newsletter products. axios.com/2025/03/04/pat…
