Though Kurtz isn't as critical of the White House as Michael Wolff was in his book "Fire an Fury," he is very critical of the media, saying the press is "falling into the president's trap,"
The streaming media giant is now worth more than Dow components Goldman Sachs, Caterpillar and United Technologies. And its $100 billion+ market value has vaulted it ahead of many traditional media rivals as well.
Alex Jones, the far-right conspiracy theorist, is working on a book with New York Times bestselling author Neil Strauss, according to a proposal sent to major publishers that was obtained by CNN.
Rupert Murdoch has long expressed frustration with how companies like Facebook and Google use news content. Now he's upping the ante, calling on Facebook to pay publishers a carriage fee the way cable companies pay for channels.
When In Touch Weekly published an interview this week with a porn actress who claimed to have had a sexual relationship with Donald Trump, it created another firestorm for the White House to put out.
Twitter will inform nearly 700,000 people in the U.S. that they either followed a Kremlin-linked troll account, or retweeted or liked a tweet sent by one of the accounts, the social media company said Friday.
The CEO and publisher of the Los Angeles Times is under investigation by the paper's parent company, Tronc, following an NPR report about "questionable behavior."