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Every successful magazine, like every successful revolution, condenses an atmosphere. The atmosphere may be political or it may be cultural. It may be a matter of taste or a question of style. Very often it is generational. If your youth was anything like mine, you grew up reading what your parents kept around the house,...
Even for a town like Las Vegas, April 6, 2016, was a big night. The city was gathering to celebrate the opening of the T-Mobile Arena, a $375 million building on the south end of the Strip that had been three years in the making. It was a glitzy Vegas bash. The Killers, a hometown...
Majd Daniel wants to tell the stories of his people: Palestinian citizens of Israel. The 27-year-old from northern Israel most likes to interview people “who were there in the Nakba”—the catastrophe, the Palestinian term for Israel’s founding—“to learn about old Haifa and all the Palestinian villages that were destroyed.” When we spoke in November, he...
Reporting about large-scale finance decisions is difficult for any journalist—but a team of German investigative reporters has crowdsourced a major investigative story revealing flaws in a closely guarded credit scoring algorithm. Most citizens in Germany have a Schufa score, which is something like the FICO score in the US. Various bits of consumer data are...
Five years ago, I came across an article in The New York Times about a spate of robberies in the Bronx. It was the kind of story that has been a staple in the metro sections of newspapers since there...
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Seventy-two years ago, I worked the paper route on the west side of Montgomery, Alabama, delivering the Alabama Journal to my neighbors, who were mostly African American. One afternoon, in 1946, I met, and would eventually befriend, the son of my...
Major networks interrupted their entertainment programming, and for what? The lamest rerun on television: https://t.co/gLBEq3xdqs
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) January 9, 2019
ICYMI: Journalist Pelin Ünker sentenced to jail in Turkey over Paradise Papers investigation https://t.co/Y8E2uA0mIO
— Poynter (@Poynter) January 9, 2019
BREAKING: CBS News president David Rhodes steps down, network names veteran producer Susan Zirinsky as replacement.
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 7, 2019
The newsroom just got news that the Dallas Morning News is laying off 40 people amidst a “restructuring”. We’re told about half of those will be from the newsroom.
— Dom DiFurio (@DomDiFurio) January 7, 2019
Saudi Arabia to seek death penalty against 5 suspects in slaying of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. https://t.co/CmmtZ95L6J
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 3, 2019