Former anchor Brooke Baldwin exited the network after 13 years not because of Trump coverage or pandemic chaos, but because of something far more ordinary—and insidious.

Vanity Fair catches Caitlin Clark in the eye of a media storm, as she gets primped before taking the stage Monday night. The women’s hoops phenom talks about going pro and driving unprecedented interest to the sport. “I feel like I’m relatable,” she says.

Since leaving New York, the acclaimed editor has traded his red pen for a paintbrush, and in his new book, The Work of Art, he probes practitioners across mediums to get to the bottom of the creative process. “Some people really enjoy being put on the couch this way,” he tells VF.

Jan Sramek wants to “deliver a big solution” to the state’s housing crisis by building a new town from scratch. He may have considered every detail, but that doesn’t mean he’s been very considerate.

In the podcast’s fourth season, cohosts Sarah Koenig and Dana Chivvis set their sights on Guantánamo Bay, telling the story of the prison camp through the personal experiences of those on the ground. “We don’t really talk about this as a country anymore, and we have never had any truth and reconciliation,” says Koenig.

Since the last Biden-Trump face-off, the media company has a new owner and global mandate, as well as increased competition in DC from Politico alums. Managers are mobilizing accordingly, pressuring staff to up their game—and leaving some “demoralized and frustrated” in the process.

The once free-spending owner, alongside new president David Stearns, is changing course in search of sustained success that’s long eluded the team from Queens. Whether in business or baseball, says outfielder Brandon Nimmo, you either “adapt or die.”

He’d apparently rather have his assets seized by the New York attorney general.

The investment frenzy around AI is driving valuation so much that some investors are wondering when the bubble might burst.

Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg, the authors of a new book on the “world’s fastest-growing sport,” discuss F1’s stateside rise, a brewing scandal, and the chances of a Saudi takeover of the circuit.

The former president has kept his finances in the dark. But now he’s pressed for cash and Truth Social could be the answer.

Management has questioned staffers, including Daily producers, after The Intercept revealed internal debate over a yet-to-air episode on Hamas weaponizing sexual violence. Such a probe is highly unusual, say staffers, one of whom dubbed it a “witch hunt.”

The author and Voice veteran chats with Vanity Fair about her acclaimed new oral history of America’s OG alternative newsweekly. “It had a hold on political and cultural movements that other publications didn’t,” she says. 

I have yet to receive a promised severance following the media start-up’s abrupt collapse, which left hundreds of us without jobs.

The New York Times’ flagship newsletter is hugely popular with readers, a source of tension among some reporters, and, for top leaders, more of what the traditional paper needs.

Chiefs scribes entered the season expecting the team’s defense of a Super Bowl title to dominate headlines; instead, they found themselves swept up by a modern-day version of DiMaggio and Monroe. “You have to cater to what the public craves and wants,” says one.

Top reporters have urged executive editor Sally Buzbee and publisher Will Lewis to address the gutted research department, a casualty of the paper’s roughly 10% staff reduction. The buyouts, they say, have “left us at a real disadvantage both in experience and sheer numbers.”

It’s not clear if Cuban has changed hearts and minds.

Staffers are eyeing the exits after a year that began with layoffs and is closing with an AI scandal and the firing of top executives. Can the iconic magazine regain its footing?

What will the New Year bring for CNN, Fox, The Washington Post, Paramount, The Telegraph, and more?