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There are things about the recent implosion of The Markup that make it unique—in particular, that it raised $23 million with nothing but a trio of co-founders and a brief description of the product they wanted to create. A launch like that places enormous pressure on a project. After not very long, Julia Angwin, one...
On April 11, Kathi Duffel, an English teacher at Bear Creek High School in Stockton, California, received a letter from the Lodi Unified School District about her work with The Bruin Voice. The letter requested pre-publication review of a Voice story about an 18-year-old Bear Creek student who is a sex worker, citing concerns that...
During an April 15 Stanley Cup playoff game, Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin squared off against Carolina Hurricanes rookie Andrei Svechnikov. The fight took seconds. Ovechkin grabbed the rookie’s jersey before Svechnikov could shake his gloves loose. Svechnikov didn’t grip Ovechkin’s jersey at the shoulder to disrupt the veteran’s punches; his own had to loop...
On April 21, Easter Sunday, a series of coordinated bombings killed hundreds in Sri Lanka. In the tense hours following the attacks, a social media blackout left much of the country barred from major communication channels—Facebook, Viber, WhatsApp—in the interest of “national security.” The ISIS-supported attack marks the most violence the country has faced since...
I am not a fangirl. I may have camped out in Central Park once to see the Backstreet Boys perform for Good Morning America. I may have started my own BSB email newsletter and fan site in the sixth grade. I...
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In 2003, with what felt like an angel on my shoulder, I wrote a story that became a myth. It was a once-in-a-lifetime piece. An emblem for human courage in the face of adversity, and an inspiration for motorcyclists like...
.@nytimes editorial page editor James Bennet has recused himself from 2020 election coverage following the announcement that his brother Senator Michael Bennet intends to run for president. Full statement follows. pic.twitter.com/w7UiX85gDQ
— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) May 2, 2019
Recode officially joins Vox, which purchased it in 2015, with Samantha Oltman, formerly of BuzzFeed News, as editor in chief (Vox)https://t.co/XS6uEPxcPyhttps://t.co/Dg3tgU6SqC
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer) May 1, 2019
Inside the Shrinking Newsroom of the Paper That Shapes the Primaries https://t.co/Q7Y3aDVk7d via @politicomag
— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) April 30, 2019
The Telegraph in the UK is shifting to a "subscriptions first" strategy and putting more of itself behind a hard paywall, but at the same time it's trying to free up resources to invest in journalism, rather than cutting newsroom head count. https://t.co/pPLM6VHTdv
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) April 29, 2019
Businesswoman Mellody Hobson and her husband, filmmaker George Lucas, are seeking to take control of Ebony and Jet magazines’ photographic archives https://t.co/Ur827EJdsO via @WSJ
— Soma Biswas (@SomaBisWSJ) April 24, 2019