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Some of the largest U.S. newspaper groups — like Tribune, McClatchy and Media News Group — are owned, controlled by or in debt to hedge funds or private equity groups. CNBC looks at how this happened.

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin returned to television on Thursday, eight months after he exposed himself to colleagues at The New Yorker

Michael Cohen, a former lawyer for ex-President Donald Trump, admitted to facilitating hush money payments at his behest to Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels.

U.S. journalist Danny Fenster was detained at Yangon International Airport before he could board a plane to Kuala Lumpur.

There aren’t many legacy media companies left to combine after this month’s deals, but here are three potential combinations that make sense.

Audio is the hottest trend in social media, and start-ups like Clubhouse and Discord have the attention of tech giants from Facebook to Twitter and Microsoft.

Amazon is close to a deal to buy MGM Studios for between $8.5 billion and $9 billion, sources say, its biggest acquisition since it bought Whole Foods in 2017.

Suzanne Nossel explains why she finds John Cena’s apology to China “troubling” after he called Taiwan a country during an interview for his upcoming film.

Ten years after Mark Haines passed away, CNBC honored him by auctioning an NFT of his historic market call at the depths of the Great Recession. 

Amazon’s $8.45 billion deal for MGM marks the first Big Tech purchase of legacy media ever — but it’s really just a bolt-on acquisition.

If Tim Cook wants to compete against Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, he may need a huge acquisition. There’s history to suggest WarnerMedia-Discovery could fit.

Verizon is adding Apple Arcade and Google Play Pass subscriptions to its growing list of bundled offerings for select wireless subscribers.

AT&T decided regulatory and ownership challenges were too fraught to merge WarnerMedia with NBCUniversal, according to Discovery shareholder John Malone.

Billionaire media mogul John Malone told CNBC’s David Faber that Discovery’s global presence will be particularly beneficial for WarnerMedia’s HBO Max.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s company Goop has been warned that its U.K. operations could be shut down after failing to file its accounts. 

The NBA attracted an audience of 5.6 million on Wednesday night for the play-in game feature two of its biggest stars in LeBron James and Steph Curry.

Google is the market leader in online advertising and earns more than 80% of its revenue from ads. Here’s a rundown of how the business works.

“These failings, identified by investigative journalists, not only let my mother down, and my family down; they let the public down too,” Prince William said.

Chris Cuomo advised N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo and encouraged him to take a defiant stance against the allegations, The Washington Post reported.

The merger between the two companies will lead to the creation of a new giant in the U.K. telecoms industry.