Breaking the News is a weekly media roundtable with media critic Jeff Jarvis, and The Mayday Network cofounders Julie Roginsky, and Michelle Kinney. New episodes drop every Friday, breaking down the media’s biggest wins, misses, and blind spots — and how the stories we’re told shape power, politics, and what Americans believe is possible.
Latest episodes
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1 h 14
The Kushner Slush Fund and the Men Who Bought CNN It’s All Connected | Breaking the News
Recorded live Friday October 23, 2026 -- Christiane Amanpour is leaving CNN after 42 years, and it is no coincidence that she’s walking out the door just as the Ellison-Skydance ta…
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49 min
The New York Times Is Failing Us: Friedman, Bumiller, and the Guilfoyle Fallout | Breaking the News
Julie Roginsky, Michelle Kinney, and Jeff Jarvis break down the turmoil at CBS and 60 Minutes, Lisa Kennedy Montgomery’s Daily Mail column about Kimberly Guilfoyle, and The New Yor…
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57 min
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, a…
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52 min
"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 wo…
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1 h 18
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…
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1 h 17
Emmys (Matthew Rhys!) Recap, CBS Airs Pentagon Propaganda, Kushner's Secret Putin Deals Exposed, and Sydney Sw…
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 p…
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1 h 13
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 y…
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1 h 20
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 wit…
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1 h 00
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…
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1 h 06
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 Ma…
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45 min
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…
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42 min
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 S…
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1 h 06
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…
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1 h 09
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 i…
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54 min
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 th…
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48 min
White House Correspondents' Dinner 2026: Bari Weiss, Pete Hegseth, and the Media's Surrender | Breaking the Ne…
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 re…
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1 h 10
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 abo…
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1 h 13
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, a…
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1 h 13
Trump Shrugs Off American Deaths, Chance of Retaliatory Attacks at Home. The Media Still Won’t Say It: This Is…
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…
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27 min
Donald Trump Prepares to Fire DHS Sec Kristi Noem, Per WSJ
Reports are swirling that Donald Trump may be preparing to fire Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. We discuss what’s happening, what it could mean, and why the chaos inside D…