Ozy Media boasts that it has more than 26 million subscribers for its newsletters, but former employees say this is another example of deceptive tactics at the embattled digital media company, ...

Ozy Media has stiffed a dozen college kids out of their $10,000 “Genius Awards” after the troubled news site’s disgraced founder Carlos Watson was arrested on federal fraud charges.

Ozy Media Chief Executive Carlos Watson lied to an investor that his company had received a $600-million takeover offer from a large tech company, federal prosecutors said in a wide-ranging fraud ...

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Carlos Watson, CEO of Ozy Media, departs U.S. Federal Court in Brooklyn after being arrested and charged with fraud in New York City, New York, U.S., February 23, 2023.

Convicted Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson and his company have been ordered to pay nearly $96 million in penalties for his “brazen and audacious” securities fraud, according to a report.

Lawyers for Ozy Media, the defunct media and entertainment company founded by Carlos Watson, allege in a new lawsuit that Ben Smith, BuzzFeed and Semafor (the media startup co-founded by Smith in ...

Ozy Media announced on Friday that it will cease operations. The decision comes five days after the The New York Times published a bombshell report about its business practices, which kicked off ...

Ozy Media co-founder and CEO Carlos Watson was convicted of attempting to defraud investors of “tens of millions” of dollars to keep his business afloat. Watson, a 54-year-old former TV host ...

Ozy Media has sued digital media company Buzzfeed, startup news outlet Semafor and its founder Ben Smith for allegedly stealing trade secrets from the now-shuttered U.S. media and entertainment ...

Carlos Watson indicated Monday morning that he had much to discuss with advertisers, even though his company, Ozy Media, has been besieged by a torrent of difficult news about its relations with ...

Ozy Media, Once a Darling of Investors, Shuts Down in a Swift Unraveling. The digital media start-up had come under scrutiny for its business practices after articles in The Times.

Ozy Media said it wouldn’t shut down after all, days after its board said the embattled digital-media startup was ceasing operations amid growing questions over the company’s business ...