Washington Post Staff: “Best and worst from Super Bowl 2024: The highlights, plays and kisses”
Santul Nerkar, New York Times: “Ad nods to Taylor Swift and football, drawing cheers and criticism”
Washington Post, Jerry Brewer: “The bigger picture behind the Travis Kelce-Andy Reid confrontation”
John Koblin & Kevin Draper, New York Times: “Super Bowl broadcast is a crossroads for CBS Sports”
Benjamin Mullin, New York Times: “Paramount lays off hundreds of workers”
Todd Spangler, Variety: “Paramount Global laying off 800 employees as CEO Bakish cites need to cut costs”
SpongeBob’s Super Bowl
Ramishah Maruf, CNN: “SpongeBob SquarePants is going to announce this Super Bowl broadcast”
Jordan Moreau, Variety: “’SpongeBob’ opens Super Bowl with rousing ‘Sweet Victory’ performance”
Alegra Frank, The Daily Beast: “The SpongeBob Super Bowl was more fun than the real game”
Tim Marcin, Mashable: “SpongeBob and Patrick hosted Nickelodeon’s Super Bowl broadcast. It was better than the real thing.”
Lauren Mechling, The Guardian: “Nickelodeon’s Super Bowl broadcast: and ingenious, wildly chaotic splash”
Sports Streaming Partnership
Joe Flint, Jessica Toonkel, Isabella Simonetti & David Marcelis, Wall Street Journal: “Why three media giants made a Hail Mary bet on sports streaming”
Emma Roth, The Verge: “The ultimate sports streaming service will have to fight itself”
Tucker Carlson’s Russian Visit
Michael M. Grynbaum, New York Times: “Tucker Carlson urges Putin to release American journalist”
Adam Gabbatt, The Guardian: “’Talkshow or serious conversation?’ Tucker Carlson’s interview of Putin offered neither”
Max Tani, Semafor: “Tucker Carlson met with Edward Snowden in Moscow”
Pjotr Sauer, The Guardian: “Putin says release of US journalist Evan Gershkovich may be possible”
What if it were free?
Kevin Lind, Columbia Journalism Review: “They gave local news away for free. Virtually nobody wanted it.”
Daniel J. Hopkins & Tori Gorton, American Journal of Political Science: “Unsubscribed and undemanding: Partisanship and the minimal effects of a field experiment encouraging local news consumption”
Angela Fu, Poynter: “One Utah paper is making money with a novel idea: print”
