The company's announcement could lead to a major shake up that would impact everything from NBC News and MSNBC to Bravo and the Golf Channel.
Potential suitors for The Washington Post are eagerly positioning themselves, waiting for the day in which Jeff Bezos might choose — or be convinced — to sell the prized outlet.
Brian Williams will have to anchor hours of high-stakes programming in a polarizing environment, ideally without alienating Amazon's customer base.
If Jeff Bezos was hoping his Monday opinion essay would win over critics, or simply restore tranquility within the halls of The Washington Post, he was mistaken.
"We’re seeing a lot of premature surrender by businessmen and politicians alike. And that’s because they’re all taking Trump’s threats both seriously and literally. The fear is palpable."
Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong have chosen to preemptively bend the knee to an autocratic wannabe, throwing their newspapers into turmoil and abdicating their responsibilities as media owners.
Amid the current upheaval, the Los Angeles Times has notably refrained from publishing any coverage of the chaos enveloping its own newsroom
With less than two weeks until ballots are cast in November, The Post has remained conspicuously silent on the highest-stakes election in recent memory.
Once flush with cash and able to freely deploy resources, major networks are being forced to keep a careful eye on their spreadsheets.
Olivia Nuzzi was informed of Vox Media's decision last week. In truth, her fate had effectively been sealed the moment Vox sought the services of a white-shoe law firm.
The media executives spoke to Status about what they have gotten right — and wrong — two years after founding Semafor.
"A Trump presidency, if it happens, is going to be a jolt in the arm for media," a source in the book world told Status. "And that applies as much to a flagging nonfiction publishing market as it does cable ratings."