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Dan Rather Is Still Chasing the News

1 September 2025 at 17:03
He’s 93, and 20 years removed from signing off as a CBS anchor. But he’s still tapping out stories. “As Popeye used to say, I am what I am.”

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Dan Rather publishes a newsletter three times a week, and it has more than half a million subscribers.

Israel Must Let the Media Into Gaza

31 August 2025 at 18:00
The ban indicates that Israel’s leaders are deliberately trying to conceal the war’s full horror.

© Illustration by Rebecca Chew/The New York Times

Carol Saline, 86, Dies; Journalist With a Story to Tell, About Her Dying

31 August 2025 at 00:51
Terminally ill, she contacted obituary reporters looking to be interviewed about her life and imminent death — to be “at her own wake,” a colleague said.

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The journalist and author Carol Saline in 2021. She said she wanted to die the way she had lived, “with a glass of champagne in one hand and a balloon in the other, singing off key, ‘Whoopee, this has been one hell of a great ride.’”

How Fox Sports Is Using Horse Racing to Tap Into the Sports Betting Market

By: Joe Drape
30 August 2025 at 17:00
Fox’s Saturday broadcasts of Saratoga horse races have averaged 501,000 viewers, more than the National Hockey League’s regular season on TNT or college basketball’s on Fox/FS1.

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Fox Sports is deepening its relationship with Saratoga and the broader New York horse racing industry.

Benny Johnson Was Fired for Plagiarism. At the White House, He’s Embraced.

30 August 2025 at 17:01
Benny Johnson, a right-wing podcaster, has enjoyed rare access and promotion from the Trump administration.

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Benny Johnson, a podcaster, was invited by the White House to sit in the new media area at the administration’s press briefing in August.

Trump Officials Move to Fire Most Voice of America Journalists

By: Minho Kim
30 August 2025 at 11:48
The layoffs set up a potential battle with a federal judge who blocked previous efforts by Kari Lake, a fierce Trump ally, to restructure the agency.

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A Voice of America studio in Washington.

John Malone Helped Create the Modern Media Industry. He’s Not Sure We’re Better Off.

29 August 2025 at 22:32
John Malone helped create the modern media industry over the last half century. In a new memoir, “Born to Be Wired,” he looks back on what he has wrought.

© Ryan David Brown for The New York Times

John Malone, a captain of the media industry over the past several decades, aboard his yacht in the Boothbay region of Maine.
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