Telecom giant AT&T is said to be close to announcing a deal to buy Time Warner, the owner of CNN, HBO and TNT. A merger would make Ma Bell, which also owns DirecTV, an even bigger player in the media world.
The Wall Street Journal is seeking a "substantial number" of buyouts in an effort to avoid "involuntary layoffs," the newspaper's editor-in-chief Gerard Baker said Friday.
In 1974, a 29-year-old local news reporter in Sarasota, Florida, went on a WXLT-TV news broadcast and told viewers, "In keeping with Channel 40's policy of bringing you the latest in 'blood and guts', and in living color, you are going to see another first -- attempted suicide."
NBCUniversal is planning to double its investment in BuzzFeed, discussing a deal that would put another $200 million into the news and entertainment site, a source with knowledge of the matter confirmed.
The audience for the final Trump-Clinton face-off was smaller than the first time around, but bigger than the rematch -- and significantly larger than the final debates of 2008 and 2012.
Donald Trump, who's well known for his love of unscientific online polls, lost an online post-debate survey on the far-right website Breitbart to Hillary Clinton.