Natalie Korach

NEWS: NPR's head of news and acting content chief announced she'll step down just days after Congress wiped out all federal funding for public media. Edith Chapin says she needs time away after holding two senior executive jobs for two years My story: npr.org/2025/07/22/nx-…

scoop: Edith Chapin is stepping down as NPR’s top editor and chief content officer. She handed in her notice before defunding went through, but this news comes at a difficult time for the public radio network.

🦊 NEW! breaking in @Axios AM: @charliekirk11, MAGA's mega-influencer, will guest-co-host @foxandfriends for the first time this weekend • Double Charlie: Kirk will join @RCamposDuffy & @charleshurt on the white curvy couch in NYC on both Sat and Sun axios.com/signup/am-pm

I had brief phone call with President Trump this morning. When asked about the wedding photos showing Epstein attended, he responded, “You’ve got to be kidding me,” before repeatedly calling CNN “fake news” and hanging up. cnn.com/2025/07/22/pol…

Scoop: Anti-woke warrior Bari Weiss seeks more than $200mn (up to $250mn!!) for media start-up The Free Press ft.com/content/0f1ce3… via @ft with @annaknicolaou @IvanLevingston @DanielThomasLDN

Washington Post executive editor Matt Murray says WP Ventures head Krissah Thompson is leaving The Washington Post

A statement regarding @WSJ

scoop: @davejorgenson, one of the breakout stars of the Marty Baron era of The Post, is leaving to start his own company with two Post alums nytimes.com/2025/07/22/bus…

Patrick Soon-Shiong says he will take the Los Angeles Times public cnn.com/2025/07/22/med…

Excited to join The Daily Show tonight with Jon Stewart, looking forward to a fun conversation! @TheDailyShow

Statement by @weijia on behalf of the @whca on Trump excluding the @WSJ from the White House press pool as punishment for its coverage:

Is it weird to go to a barbershop and ask the barber for the tapered fade that you have in an AI-generated picture of yourself as a dog who also happens to be standing next to a dog version of Mike Florio

My favorite fun fact that no one knows about this picture is that it was actually taken the night before and @kaitlancollins had to tell him it was going viral

Big news. @havivrettiggur joins @TheFP as a regular contributor. His first livestream will be this Wednesday. thefp.com/p/haviv-rettig…

Scoop: A WSJ reporter was slated to be part of the travel pool this weekend when Trump travels to Scotland. After the paper's Epstein story last week, the WH booted them from the pool. w/ @iriesentner politico.com/news/2025/07/2…

"Is this what we have come to—depending on Rupert Murdoch to stand up for press freedom?" Tina Brown writes on Substack of Trump's recent legal threats against the WSJ open.substack.com/pub/tinabrown/…

This is just the set up to an old John Mulaney horse in the hospital joke

RTRS: DONALD TRUMP FILES LIBEL LAWSUIT AGAINST DOW JONES, NEWS CORP, RUPERT MURDOCH, TWO WALL STREET JOURNAL REPORTERS, COURT RECORDS SHOW; COPY OF COMPLAINT NOT IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE

The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this stuff is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive" 404media.co/the-astronomer…

New: I teamed up with @elenalingshao and @nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote: nytimes.com/interactive/20… This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.