Media Capture
Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (October 7-14)
The DOJ approves the CVS-Aetna merger, radically altering the landscape of US health care; Sheldon Adelson pumps millions into GOP races; Silicon Valley’s Saudi...
Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (September 22–29)
Facebook’s bad week included a new security breach, high-profile resignations and damaging exposés; tech giants are spending billions on physical infrastructure and lobbying for...
Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (September 16–22)
The White House is getting ready to go after tech platforms and the EU is going after Amazon, while Louisiana’s attorney general wants to break...
Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (September 7–16)
Is the government's response to the 2008 financial crisis responsible for the rise of populism in the US and Europe?; the real Google censorship...
Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (July 7–14)
Brett Kavanaugh is expected to bring his pro-business bent to the Supreme Court; the DOJ is appealing the AT&T-Time Warner merger approval; Britain fines...
Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (May 26–June 2)
Google gives up Project Maven following "terrible" backlash; angry Facebook shareholders demand an end to Mark Zuckerberg's "dictatorship"; American startups are in a 13-year slump; and Italy...
Editors’ Briefing: This Week in Political Economy (May 12-May 19)
Wells Fargo is in hot water again; President Trump reportedly pushed the US Postmaster General to double the rate that Amazon pays to ship...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (April 1–April 7)
This week in political economy.
Facebook acknowledged this week that the Cambridge Analytica data breach affected 87 million users (reportedly including 2.7 million Europeans)—37...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 3-March 10)
This week in political economy.
ProPublica has created a searchable database of 2,475 political appointees by the Trump administration, the result of “a year...
Case 2000: How Netanyahu and Israel’s Most Powerful Media Mogul Planned to Subvert the Market for News and Ideas
It doesn’t involve a high-profile American billionaire, and yet of the two cases on which the police recommended indicting Israel’s prime minister, “Case 2000”...
