On January 8, National Parks Traveler reported that Joshua trees had been cut down in their namesake national park during the partial federal government shutdown. Then the comment section blew up—with allegations of false reports and #fakenews, calls to protect the parks, and debates over border-wall funding. “Assuming the story is correct, I can only...
The greater Cincinnati area, which encompasses parts of Northern Kentucky, including Covington, is reliably Republican and deeply Catholic. “How Catholic?” asked Cincinnati Magazine in 2016. So Catholic that the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, then the nation’s 38th most populous diocese, operated the sixth largest parochial school system in America. So Catholic that, in the 1960s, Cincinnati’s...
On last night’s episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight, the conservative commentator took a few minutes to weigh in on last week’s massive media layoffs. Not so much the layoffs themselves, but a move by Twitter on Sunday to crack down on anyone telling the recently fired journalists that they should “learn to code.” Former employees...
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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...
ICYMI: Verizon Media, HuffPost’s Parent Company, Announces Sweeping Layoffshttps://t.co/sei4Tw1dcm
— Poynter (@Poynter) January 23, 2019
News: @mekosoff and @annabreslaw are leaving Gawker after just two weeks due to concerns about Carson Griffith, the recently hired editorial director. https://t.co/cxZM04j0zR
— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) January 23, 2019
Exclusive: Vox Media is acquiring The Coral Project https://t.co/D4wgJfKI1f
— Sara Fischer (@sarafischer) January 22, 2019
After more than three years at the helm as editor-in-chief, Janine Gibson has just told London staff she’s leaving BuzzFeed UK
— Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef) January 18, 2019
Ahmed Hussein-Suale, a journalist in Ghana who helped expose corruption in African soccer, was shot dead Wednesday by gunmen in an Accra suburb (@matthewchampion / BuzzFeed News)https://t.co/mpUkfI4A6whttps://t.co/yzfzPXFUEi
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer) January 17, 2019