Jessica Toonkel
@jtoonkel
Deputy Media Editor, The Wall Street Journal. [email protected]. RTs not endorsements. DMs open
“You’re not taking a year are you?” Netflix has quietly pulled back its much-lauded parental-leave policy, one of several cultural changes as it reins in employee freedom. Lots of exclusive nuggets here including internal emails, documents and recordings $NFLX…
Sad that Dan and Jay are gone. They are two of the good ones at CNBC. I’m sure this is just the beginning of the shakeup to come. Good luck to Cho in rebuilding a digital newsroom that currently relies almost entirely on reporting by NBC News to cover national news.
scoop: @jyarow and @Colarusso42 are leaving CNBC as part of an editorial shakeup ahead of the Comcast/Versant spin. David Cho, most recently the top editor of Barron's, is joining as editor-in-chief, according to a staff memo.
scoop: Skydance's David Ellison has held early talks about acquiring The Free Press. w/ @laurenshirsch nytimes.com/2025/07/11/bus… Bari Weiss et al could have a role in shaping the editorial voice of CBS News, if the deal comes to fruition.
ChatGPT admitted it failed to interrupt a Wisconsin man’s apparent manic episode. OpenAI says it’s trying to reduce ChatGPT’s reinforcement of negative behavior. wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgp…
With his nemesis, Elon Musk, out of the picture, Sam Altman has forged closer ties with President Trump, dining with the president at his private golf club and declaring he has left the Democratic Party. w/@DanaMattioli @jdawsey1 wsj.com/tech/ai/sam-al… via @WSJ
I am so proud of my brave, brilliant colleagues @khadeeja_safdar and @joe_palazzolo, proud to live in a country where the founders put freedom of speech in the very first amendment, and proud to work at The Wall Street Journal. wsj.com/politics/trump… via @WSJ
Of all the reasons to fire Colbert as billionaire Larry Ellison's company takes over, "financial considerations" drawing a certain amount of skepticism variety.com/2025/tv/news/c…
wsj.com/politics/trump…
“The letter bearing Trump’s name, which was reviewed by the Journal, is bawdy—like others in the album. It contains several lines of typewritten text framed by the outline of a naked woman, which appears to be hand-drawn with a heavy marker. A pair of small arcs denotes the…
WSJ: "Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.” wsj.com/politics/trump…
Exclusive: For Jeffrey Epstein’s 50th birthday, friends created a book of bawdy letters. One was from Donald Trump. on.wsj.com/3TL8s7C
Netflix raised its revenue forecast for the year and topped its projected second-quarter revenue and profits, extending a strong run that has propelled the streaming service’s shares to new highs w/@ReichJosie wsj.com/business/earni… via @WSJ
President Trump lashed out at his supporters for opposing the decision not to release more material from the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and accused them of buying into a Democratic narrative wsj.com/politics/polic… via @WSJ
Sen. Elizabeth Warren introduces the presidential library anti-corruption act. Bill is aimed to prohibit money from big companies and foreign governments from pledging millions as a way of cozying up to administration or settling legal disputes. Bill comes after Paramount and…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has agreed to invest $2 billion in xAI, investors close to the companies said, nearly half of the Grok chatbot maker’s recent equity raise on.wsj.com/3IozIX8
Google has agreed to pay about $2.4 billion in a deal to license the technology of AI coding startup Windsurf and hire its CEO and some of its employees @berber_jin1 @KatherineBlunt wsj.com/tech/ai/google…
Apple has offered Formula One as much as $150 million a year for the U.S. rights to air its races and is the top contender to secure a deal @thesimonetti wsj.com/business/media…
Some of New York’s wealthiest financiers are scrambling to build a network of outside groups that plan to oppose Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani as a last stand against the surging progressive candidate wsj.com/politics/polic… via @WSJ
It is boom time in Washington for the influence industry, according to interviews with more than a dozen Republican lobbyists @jdawsey1 @rebeccaballhaus @MaggieSeverns wsj.com/politics/polic…
As CEO of X, Linda Yaccarino navigated two turbulent years of charm offensives and legal threats to stabilize a bruised business—just in time for Elon Musk’s merger of X with xAI w/@VranicaWSJ @ajsaeedy wsj.com/business/media…
Linda's departure isn't a surprise to those who've been following what's been going on at the company. Our take on her departure w/@VranicaWSJ and @jtoonkel: wsj.com/tech/yaccarino…
Musk not doing much to dispel the speculation that Grok's pro-Hitler responses were the last straw for @lindayaX
Thank you for your contributions