Since the beginning of this year, when licensed shops in California were granted permission to sell marijuana for recreational use, sellers have asked Gary Robbins, a science and technology reporter for the San Diego Union-Tribune, to be careful with his language. “They’ll send me an email saying, ‘Why did you use “pot” in that headline?’” […]
An unexplained break from a stable family routine. A bathroom only very slightly out of order: a rumpled towel on the floor, a broken vase, tiny specks of blood. An unbelievable 9-1-1 call and, soon after, an arrest. Countdown to Capture has all the ingredients of a good true crime podcast, but it’s not a […]
In a dilapidated, colonial courthouse, two Reuters reporters who exposed a military massacre of 10 Rohingya civilians sat handcuffed as they listened to a judge rattle off his reasons for convicting them under Myanmar’s Official Secrets Act. In phones and notebooks belonging to Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, and Wa Lone, 32, police had found a […]
“16 Shots,” WBEZ’s new podcast with the Chicago Tribune about the fatal police shooting of Laquan McDonald, launched on August 29. That day, the Tribune also published a story from a selective and controlled 40-minute interview with Jason Van Dyke, the police officer charged with murdering McDonald, who was later threatened with contempt for speaking […]
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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,...
Wow: Tonight, Fox News's Martha MacCallum will have an exclusive interview with Judge Brett Kavanaugh and his wife Ashley Estes Kavanaugh
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) September 24, 2018
“According to a source briefed on Trump’s thinking, Trump decided that firing Rosenstein would knock Kavanaugh out of the news, potentially saving his nomination and Republicans’ chances for keeping the Senate.” https://t.co/zwV1gUwaIl
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) September 24, 2018
"As Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings became a national story, the discussions among Ramirez and Kavanaugh’s classmates took on heightened urgency, eventually spreading to news organizations and to the Senate." https://t.co/x5kZdEc9lQ
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) September 24, 2018
Michelle Guthrie has been fired as managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; David Anderson is now acting managing director (@meadea / The Guardian)https://t.co/fJoJVDjbEEhttps://t.co/2ILwUEKn13
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer) September 24, 2018
Vox Media is valued at roughly $1 billion. It's on pace to miss its annual revenue target of $200 million by more than 15%:https://t.co/3vjHZsaaf2
— Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) September 23, 2018