I’m sure you all have dozens of newsletters in your inbox about Donald Trump and the election. Sorry… this is another one. Indeed, I decided to wait to publish until we knew the result. (I promise I’ll write about something else on Friday.) As I ​said the other day​, there is only one story in town.

You can read about the politics of the election elsewhere, and I’ll doubtlessly discuss it with my co-host Emma Burnell on this week’s ​House of Comments podcast​ episode. Here, though, I want to look at the media coverage and reaction.

First, something not about the election. Check out the latest episode of The Addition Podcast. Journalist and researcher Carl Miller joins to explain his gripping new podcast “Kill List”. It is an extraordinary series, that brings together hit men, human relationships and the dark web.

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Media Meltdown After Trump Win

There was a new kid in town last night. Prime Video brought in Brian Williams to anchor its coverage in an absolutely enormous studio. I liked that some of the Puck correspondents were involved in it. The most fascinating thing to me, though, was when I opened the Prime Video app, there it was - live news coverage next to live coverage of the Champion’s League match the service was also showing.

This is a bit of an outlier situation because a) the US Presidential election only happens every four years, and b) Prime Video only has Champions League games on a Tuesday, which just so happens to be when US elections are held. However, the combination of live sports and live news made it seem rather like a traditional cable. Once they have debriefed from last night, it will be interesting to see how much further Prime Video goes into these kinds of live news events and how that transforms the service.

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