Sara Fischer
@sarafischer
Media Correspondent @Axios, Media Analyst @CNN ([email protected])
🙏🏻 thank you @SABEW & @axios
🏆 It brings me loads of joy to announce @sarafischer won SABEW's Best in Business award for her Newsletter 💪 The judges: "The author clearly hustles and is very plugged in to her beat." sabew.org/2025/03/2024-b…
News: @CapehartJ, the Pulitzer Prize-winning opinion columnist, has taken a buyout at @washingtonpost after 18 years with the paper - He'll continue to co-host "The Weekend" on @MSNBC and as a political analyst at @NewsHour
Polymarket is poised to return to the U.S. axios.com/2025/07/21/pre…
🦾NEW @OpenAI data on ChatGPT, breaking in @axios AM: • Globally, ChatGPT users send over 2.5 billion prompts each day • 330 million (13%) are from U.S. • Vast majority use ChatGPT's free version @sama's push to "democratize" AI's economic benefits ⬇️axios.com/2025/07/21/sam…
Trump sues Wall Street Journal for libel over Epstein letter axios.com/2025/07/18/wal…
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.
Congress votes to strip more than $1 billion in funding for NPR, PBS axios.com/2025/07/18/npr…
Late-night shows under pressure in a hyper-partisan streaming era axios.com/2025/07/18/lat…
CBS to cancel "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" next season citing financial reasons axios.com/2025/07/17/cbs…
Substack raises $100M, becoming a unicorn A breakdown of its raise history: axios.com/2025/07/17/sub…
Netflix is getting ahead of any political drama around how much local content it produces for markets outside US, telling investors: —"Our most significant investment remains in the US" —"From 2020-2024, we estimate that we contributed $125 billion to the US economy."
Exclusive: @Meta names longtime exec Connor Hayes as its head of Threads — Instagram head Adam Mosseri has led the app since it launched in 2023 More on @axios axios.com/2025/07/17/met…
Exclusive: @Reddit CMO Roxy Young is departing the social media company after more than eight years Her exit comes amid other leadership changes at Reddit following its IPO More on @Axios: axios.com/2025/07/17/red…
If you work in cable, you better read this to find out who your next boss might be.
SCOOP: Starz is raising cash to buy Lifetime and History unless Hearst gets there first. Roku’s Charlie Collier and Byron Allen might want cable brands, too. @snoodit and @claireatki see the companies for sale, who’s bidding, and how buyers perceive them theankler.com/p/the-grim-biz…
"If you lose a local newspaper in a small community, someone can come in at another point and start up another local newspaper. But once broadcast licenses are gone, they’re gone." washingtonpost.com/technology/202…
Listen to me talk about AI, Grok and antisemitism here - cnn.com/audio/podcasts…
Scoop: Dozens of local newspapers owned by Lee Enterprises are raising prices, blaming tariffs & inflation — Newsprint is exempt from Trump's Canadian import tariffs, but printers are still warning publishers that rates will rise axios.com/2025/07/15/tar…
You actually kind of want the smallest group of people who can fit the whole thing in their head.” - Zuckerberg on AI recruiting “The amount that is being spent to to recruit the people is actually still quite small compared to the overall investment” - Zuckerberg on comp got…
From @Jessicalessin's interview with Mark Zuckerberg for The Information's TITV earlier today:
NEW: @FoxNews to license the @RuthlessPodcast podcast as part of its digital expansion into new media axios.com/2025/07/15/fox…
💡After @nvidia hit $4T, I interviewed CEO Jensen Huang in DC about why he thinks DOOMERS are wrong about AI killing white-collar jobs: "Everyone's job will change. Some people will lose jobs. There will be MORE jobs. Every job will be augmented by AI" ⬇️Why he doesn't wear a⌚