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Early Monday morning, Todd Maisel, a photojournalist, stood out in the rain on South Street, near the Battery Tunnel. Watching the passersby, he spotted a woman walking her dog, her umbrella braced against the wind. Maisel lifted his camera. Just as a gust turned the umbrella inside out, the woman’s dog grabbed his leash in […]
America’s local news has reached its death spiral phase. Look no further than today’s grim announcement from the New York Daily News, a once proud fighter in the city’s news wars. On Monday, the tabloid’s owner, Tronc, announced the latest in a slog of job cuts, this one totaling 50 percent of the staff and […]
Javier Cabral was hunting for pan dulce when I finally got him on the phone. A longtime food journalist and an associate editor at LA Taco, Cabral was looking for something specific: conchas, Mexican sweet breads you can find all around Los Angeles. Specifically, Cabral was looking for vegan conchas, the kind that can only […]
When I sketched the first ideas for PolitiFact’s home page in 2007, I included a “Truth-O-Meter” to rate politicians’ statements from true to false. The meter became an iconic feature of our fact-checking website that was highlighted on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, the Today show, and hundreds of segments on cable news channels. […]
As far back as I can remember, I have known exactly what I wanted my job to be. I worked at my grade school newspaper (shout-out to The Bobcat Chat), then my high school paper, then my college one. My...
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It was 1933, and the Great Depression was pummeling the newspaper industry. The New York World, once owned by Joseph Pulitzer and the city’s largest paper, had closed two years earlier, throwing 3,000 people out of work. In many cities,...
Yowza - CBS stock falls on report of New Yorker article alleging misconduct by Les Moonves https://t.co/zz1cyzv2sD
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) July 27, 2018
The Justice Department has opened an investigation into possible ad sales coordination between Sinclair, Tribune & other local TV companies, @keachhagey and @DrewFitzGerald report:https://t.co/300HUVuSvy
— Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) July 26, 2018
"Mueller wants to question the president about the tweets." https://t.co/ATcfmKjGJ3
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) July 26, 2018
Troy Young named president of Hearst Magazines, publisher of titles such as Cosmopolitan and Esquire https://t.co/GG3UCqWkij via @WSJ
— Jeffrey Trachtenberg (@JeffreyT1) July 25, 2018
Sinclair announces changes to its bid for Tribune to appease the FCC https://t.co/HETizvbygt via @CNNMoney
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) July 18, 2018