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Sinclair fires reporter as she battles cancer
Alex George had already been through a lot. In the summer of 2017, four weeks after graduating from the University of Michigan, she moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, at the age of 22, to work as a general assignment reporter at WTVC, an ABC-affiliate, on a two-year-contract. Then, in May, after a gruelling first year at...
Pushed Even Further: US Newsrooms View Mobile Alerts as a Standalone Platform
Executive Summary In 2017, we did a deep dive into mobile push alerts, publishing a report in collaboration with the Guardian Mobile Innovation Lab that looked at newsrooms’ push notification usage and strategy. But a year is a long time in the world of push alerts—and, of course, mobile phones. As the year anniversary of our study...
A journalist exposes the systemic failures that led to his wife’s death
The tragic story of 34-year-old Laura Levis’s death went viral in 2016. Peter DeMarco, Levis’s husband, wrote a poignant letter offering his gratitude to the medical staff who cared for his wife in her final days. The letter, which ran in The New York Times and gained attention across the country, detailed gestures from more...
Brazilian journalists gird for tough times under Bolsonaro
The day after he captured Brazil’s presidency in a run-off, Jair Bolsonaro spoke with Globo News, Brazil's largest television network. Bolsonaro, dressed casually in a light blue polo shirt and dark blue jacket, opened the October 29 interview by citing the Book of John in the Bible: “‘You will know the truth, and the truth...
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