Breaking the News
Breaking the News is a weekly media roundtable hosted by media critic Jeff Jarvis along with The Mayday Network cofounders Julie Roginsky and Michelle Kinney. Each Friday, the show examines the media's biggest wins, misses, and blind spots. It explores how the stories people receive shape power, politics, and what Americans believe is possible.
Episodes
The Paramount-Warner Merger: The Deal is Done, Who Owns Hollywood Now?
The Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Skydance merger is complete, and Julie Roginsky and Jeff Jarvis break down what it means when the Ellison family, Trump-friendly money, and financing from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE end up controlling so much of America’s soft power. They dig into the debt load, the hedge fund and private equity playbook that already hollowed out newspapers and radi
"Cornell Won't, We Will" Student Journalists, CNN's New Owners, and Who Controls Our Stories
Student journalists at The Cornell Daily Sun did what far bigger newsrooms wouldn't. They stayed on the Cornell 7 story for two years, named the seven accused men, protected the woman who came forward, and refused to soften the details. Michelle Kinney, Julie Roginsky, and Jeff Jarvis open Breaking the News by honoring Cereese Qusba and Sophia Dasser, the two young women who broke the story, and b
Bari Weiss, Peter Thiel, and the Billionaire Media Tycoons Clearing the Runway for Authoritarianism
Recorded live Friday September 25, 2026
Julie Roginsky, Michelle Kinney, and Jeff Jarvis break down a brutal week for the free press. Axel Springer chief Matthias Döpfner publicly honored Trump megadonor Peter Thiel in Berlin — with Bari Weiss delivering the tribute — while dismissing his own Politico and Business Insider staffers who objected. Jeff, who's spent real time around Döpfner (at Davos!
Emmys (Matthew Rhys!) Recap, CBS Airs Pentagon Propaganda, Kushner's Secret Putin Deals Exposed, and Sydney Sweeney's New Ad 🥴
This week on Breaking the News, Julie Roginsky, Michelle Kinney, and Jeff Jarvis dig into a stacked week: a surprisingly solid Emmys night, AI's growing shadow over Hollywood and publishing, Sydney Sweeney's sports-betting ad and whether it's actually a shrewd business move, and the slow unraveling of CBS's 60 Minutes under Barry Weiss. And yes, Michelle gushes about Matthew Rhys's three-Emmy swee
25 Years Since September 11: Jeff Jarvis's Story From Under the Towers, Plus Where We Were That Day
Recorded live on September 11, 2026
On the 25th anniversary of September 11th, Julie Roginsky, Michelle Kinney, and Jeff Jarvis share where they were that day and how the last 25 years have changed the way they see it. Jeff was under the World Trade Center that morning, on the last PATH train in before the towers fell, and stayed to report through the day — his account anchors the conversation. J
The Quiet Insurrection: How Fear Is Reshaping Washington and the Press | Breaking the News
Julie Roginsky, Michelle Kinney, and Jeff Jarvis break down the media's split-screen response to Trump's primetime election speech, from ABC and NBC's blackout to CBS airing it with a disclaimer before getting grilled on air over the decision. They argue the real story isn't Trump's evidence, which collapsed on contact, but a president openly threatening ABC and NBC's broadcast licenses through FC
Scott Pelley Left CBS' 60 Minutes in a Blaze of Glory. Where Are the Rest of Them? Who's Left Standing?
Scott Pelley cross-examined his own network on the way out the door — and he's not going to stop speaking out anytime soon.
This week on Breaking the News, Julie Roginsky, Michelle Kinney, and Jeff Jarvis break down what the demolition of Sixty Minutes actually means, why the Ellisons bought Paramount with nothing to lose, and what happens when CNN becomes the next test case.
Plus: Dylan Byers,
The 60 Minutes Massacre | Breaking the News
The takedown of 60 Minutes. Who ordered it, who carried it out, and what happens next — Breaking the News with Julie Roginsky, Michelle Kinney, and Jeff Jarvis.
Air Date: Friday May 29, 2026
Stephen Colbert Is The First Cultural Casualty of a Fascist America | Breaking the News
[RECORDED LIVE FRIDAY MAY 22, 2026]
Stephen Colbert's show is ending because the president of the United States can't take a joke. Julie Roginsky, Michelle Kinney, and Jeff Jarvis are live with Breaking the News at 11AM ET every Friday on Youtube and Substack.
The New CBS Regime Faceplants - Again | Breaking the News
CBS News sent its anchor to Taiwan instead of China. Then got him kicked out of his hotel. Then his cameraman collapsed on air. Meanwhile Paramount is cutting a podcast deal with Stephen Miller's wife (ofStephen) Trump called a New York Times reporter treasonous on Air Force One, there were zero women at the US-China summit, and the media still can't write a straight headline. Julie Roginsky, Mich
Women Are Still the Story They Won't Tell | Breaking the News
Julie K. Brown broke the Epstein story. A white male editor blocked her Pulitzer — twice. She just got it anyway. A decade late. Julie Roginsky, Jeff Jarvis, and Michelle Kinney on the misogyny that's no longer even trying to hide — in media, in politics, at the New York Times, and at CNN. The Me Too movement isn't dead. The people in power just need you to think it is. Jeff Jarvis is the ally we
The Scott Jennings Problem: CNN, the Supreme Court, and a Democracy in Freefall | Breaking the News
[Recorded live May 1, 2026.] Michelle is out this week, so Julie Roginsky and Jeff Jarvis take it from here. CNN is circling the drain. Scott Jennings is running the place -- why is no one covering the real story?
The Supreme Court just handed democracy a gut punch. And Julie has changed her mind about expanding the Court — and she'll tell you exactly why.
The Mayday Network is women-founded, wom
Breaking the News: Why The White House Correspondents' Dinner Is the Worst Night in Washington
Julie Roginsky, Michelle Kinney, and Jeff Jarvis tear apart the WHCD — access journalism, the (15!!!) CBS tables, Pete Hegseth's drink order, and why there is no amount of money that will ever buy you talent, taste, or class.
Also: the death of Condé Nast, the Met Gala goes full billionaire, and where the hell are the artists like Taylor Swift in this perilous moment for America?
White House Correspondents' Dinner 2026: Bari Weiss, Pete Hegseth, and the Media's Surrender | Breaking the News
The White House Correspondents' Dinner is a conflict of interest wearing a tuxedo — and this year, it's worse. Bari Weiss invited Pete Hegseth. CBS is losing Stephen Colbert and replacing him with Byron Allen. The Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swann Iran war chapter drops — and the sources make themselves look very good. Jared Kushner is negotiating with Iran in Pakistan. Melania's past is about to
The New York Times Has a Women Problem and We're Not Letting It Go | Breaking the News
Julie's back from Japan and she's got things to say. The New York Times ran two op-eds declaring Me Too dead and the future no longer female — on the same day it buried a story about a church trying to strip women of the right to vote. Meanwhile, Iran dropped an AI-generated Lego hit on Pete Hegseth that honestly out-trolled the entire Democratic Party. Plus: an American fighter jet downed over Ir
Michael Cohen Is a Scorned Man, MAGA Declares Liberal Women the Enemy, and Julie's Fox News Feelings
Nobody should be surprised about's Michael Cohen long con. Julie and Michelle weren't. He's teaming up with Laura Loomer on Rumble, Kkkaroline Leavitt is already tweeting it out, and the whole thing is so coordinated it practically came with a press kit. This is what a scorned man looks like when he finds a new grift.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp went on CNBC and explained that AI exists to strip politi
Trump Shrugs Off American Deaths, Chance of Retaliatory Attacks at Home. The Media Still Won’t Say It: This Is WW3.
Asked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Donald Trump responded -- “I guess.” https://time.com/7382697/trump-iran-war/
At the same time, Russia is reportedly providing intelligence to Tehran targeting U.S. forces, the conflict is spreading across the Middle East, and the American press still refuses to say what this increasingly looks like.
This is World War II
Who Controls the Media -- Controls Democracy.
Legacy media is changing fast — and not for the better.
Julie Roginsky, Michelle Kinney, and Jeff Jarvis break down the accelerating collapse of trust in news institutions, the looming takeover reshaping CNN and major entertainment companies, and what happens when journalism, culture, and democracy collide.
If the old media system is ending, what replaces it — and who do we trust next?
We also tal
Colbert vs. CBS — And the Death of Old-Timey Media
[RECORDED FEBRUARY 20, 2026]
Stephen Colbert pushed back. CBS flinched.
And the ground is shifting under everyone. Anderson Cooper stepped away from 60 Minutes. Jake Tapper looks increasingly squeezed inside CNN’s shrinking cable universe. In a post-cable world, where does someone like Tapper even land? Who survives when the old guard collapses?
This isn’t just about one show or one network. I
Don Lemon and Georgia Fort Arrested | Media Silence, Epstein Distractions, and the End of Press Freedom
[RECORDED LIVE FRIDAY JANUARY 30, 2026]
Journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were arrested despite a judge finding no legal basis to do so. This is tyranny.
Michelle Kinney, Julie Roginsky, and Jeff Jarvis unpack what these arrests reveal about the state of press freedom in the United States, why legacy media continues to downplay authoritarian behavior, and how journalists outside the corporat
The Media’s Role in America’s Authoritarian Slide
In the first episode of Breaking the News, Jeff Jarvis, Julie Roginsky, and Michelle Kinney examine how American media is helping normalize authoritarianism — from the killing of Renée Goode to the press’s increasingly sanitized coverage of Trump’s behavior and abuse of power. Through a sharp, unsparing conversation about language, narrative, and access journalism, they connect how violence, corru
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