Netflix Buys Rights to WWE Raw, Other Shows in Live Streaming Push; The Sports Illustrated Cover, a Faded Canvas That Once Defined Sports; The Harvard of the Unwoke; Facebook Made a Major Change After Years of PR Disasters, and News Sites Are Paying the Price; How Group Chats Rule the World

This week we are pausing The Flack in honor of our dear friend and colleague Mike Casey.

When The New York Times Lost Its Way; Harvard Faculty Appeal to the University’s Board to Address Growing Number of Crises; Top 25 Podcasts in 2023; Striking Findings From 2023; A Look Back at the top Business Stories of 2023

“We Sometimes Have to Hear Speech We Hate,” Legal Experts Weigh in on the Campus Crisis; Publisher of Sports Illustrated Ousts CEO Ross Levinsohn; Reading Print Magazines is an Elite Pursuit; Zara Pulls Campaign That Critics Said Resembled Gaza Destruction; Elon Musk Is Going Down a Conspiratorial Rabbit Hole and Taking X With Him;

Your Local Newspaper Might Not Have a Single Reporter; Are Christmas Cards a Dying Art?; You’ve Received an Interview Request From a Reporter. Should You Accept or Decline? ; Succeeding at the “Social” Part of ESG; Audio Books Just Got Cheaper — If You Know Where to Look.

‘Eat the Rich’: How a Union Slogan Set Off a Merch Bonanza; Gannett’s Taylor Swift Reporter, Revealed: Meet Bryan West, the First Full-Time Swiftie Journalist; The Battle of the Century: UFC vs. 1,200 of Its Own Fighters; How to Line Up a Great Connections Solve; Disgraced WeWork Founder Adam Neumann Still Worth $1.7B After Company’s Bankruptcy.

Pro-Hamas Protests Show How Higher Education Has Finally Crossed the Line; Consumers Are Less Interested in Brands Taking Stances on Sociopolitical Issues, Survey Finds; How to Pronounce the Trickiest English Words: Ask This Frenchman; Selena Gomez Is Being Dragged for Her ‘Ignorant’ Statement on Israel; States Sue Meta Claiming Its Social Media Platforms Are Addictive and Harm Children's Mental Health

No Winners So Far in Hamas-Israel PR War; TikTok Clarifies Its Moderating Policies Amid Israel-Hamas War; The Rebirth of Local News Depends on All of Us; X, Formerly Twitter, Tests Charging New Users $1 to Tweet, Retweet; An Old Rotary Phone Helps People Cope With Grief

Netflix to Bring Down the Curtain on Its DVD-by-Mail Service; The New Phone Call Etiquette: Text First and Never Leave a Voice Mail; Are We Witnessing the Death of the Writer? Facing the AI Crossroads in Class and on the Page; The Ryder Cup is Broken, and There’s No Easy Fix; A New Coca-Cola Flavor at the End of the World

Atlanta News Outlet Aims for Half a Million Digital Subscribers in Under Four Years; Deion Sanders’ Sunglasses Notch $1.2 Million in Sales in First Day; Apple iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max Review: Close to Perfection; UAW Chief Shawn Fain Disrupts Detroit's Labor Tradition; What Does the Word 'Girl' Mean Now and Why Has It Become So Popular?; There is no Replacement for Quality Journalism