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Trey Gowdy, the former chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has signed on to provide political and legal analysis on Fox News and the Fox Business Network. Gowdy is the latest in a long line of former legislators to snag broadcasting jobs in the wake of the midterm elections. Earlier this week, former Republican senator and vocal Trump critic Jeff Flake were enlisted as an on-air personality for CBS. Mia Love, who represented Utah's 4th congressional district, and former Ohio governor John Kasich, both also Republicans, will appear on CNN, while recently ousted Democratic senator Claire McCaskill is heading for NBC News and MSNBC. CNN is also bringing on Andrew Gillum, a Democrat who failed in his attempt to be elected governor of Florida.
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Popular Mechanics is exiting the Hearst Building in Manhattan for a less high-profile address: Easton, PA, about 70 miles west of its current digs, a report in the New York Post says. The move is part of a wave of cost-cutting at Hearst. The magazine’s current editor, Ryan D’Agostino, is remaining in New York City and taking on the title of director of special projects. The editor-in-chief spot in the new Easton offices will be filled by Alexander George, who was previously technology editor. While a memo sent out last week by Hearst president and CEO Steven Swartz said that Hearst’s magazine division still generates a profit for the company, the Post’s source said that the division’s 2018 profits of $265 million represented a drop from the 2017 figure.
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Condé Nast is launching Vogue Business, a website and newsletter that will cover the business of the fashion industry. The new title will be overseen by Vogue International president Wolfgang Blau—not Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. It will be edited by Lauren Indvik, who was previously head of news and features at Vogue International. Indvik will head up an independent editorial team in London, where Vogue Business will operate as a wholly separate entity. Vogue Business is the first product to come out of what Condé Nast is calling the "incubator," a division which develops new products and services for the company.
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach an agreement that will make a set of more than 200 animated, masked and creature characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars available for use by Sora, OpenAI’s short-form generative AI video platform... CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has moved Tony Dokoupil, a co-host at “CBS Mornings” since 2019, into the anchor’s chair for the “CBS Evening News,” following the departure of John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois... USA Today editor-in-chief Caren Bohan has left the paper.
Michael Kaminer, who was responsible for the Observer’s “Power List” for the past 13 years, has cut ties with the publication... The New York Times Company continues the march toward its goal of 15 million subscribers by the end of 2027... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is providing more than $6 million in funding to eight organizations working to address the challenges local news and information environments face along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Conservative outlets Fox News, Newsmax and the Daily Caller are holding back from signing Pete Hegseth’s edict restricting press access in the Pentagon... CBS News sees the first executive departure of the Bari Weiss era as head of standards and practices Claudia Milne exits... Indiana University shuts down the print version of The Indiana Daily Student.
Rothschild family plans to unload 26.7 percent stake in The Economist... STAT, a digital media company that focuses the life sciences, brings back Damian Garde, who anchored its biotech newsletter and podcast from 2016 to 2024... High Times officially resumes print publication (following its 2024 shutdown) with the release of a limited-edition, collectible 50th anniversary issue. 
CBS News is set to hand over its reins to The Free Press co-founder Bari Weiss as Paramount acquires her site for $155M... C-SPAN comes on board as an official media partner of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, which is charged by Congress to lead the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence... A new Gallup survey says that the level of trust that US audiences have in the media has hit a new low.
