With his vast investment in The Washington Post’s digital publishing technology, the Amazon founder could soon control the backbone of most large American newspapers.
Dan Froomkin
Dan Froomkin is an independent journalist, media critic, and founder/editor of the nonprofit organization Press Watch. He has been a reporter, editor, and columnist at The Intercept, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. His first jobs were at local newspapers.
Posted inJuly/August 2021, Magazine, Politics
Is Facebook Buying Off The New York Times?
Under the cover of launching a little-known feature, the social media giant has been funneling money to America’s biggest news organizations—and hanging the rest of the press out to dry.
