Top news of the week: 14.08.2022.
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North Carolina’s third-largest city, Greensboro, once had a thriving newspaper in the News & Record. What’s left after years of media-conglomerate cuts is a shell of the paper’s former ...
Canada’s Online News Act shows how other countries are learning from Australia’s news bill
The potential here is for democratic governments to evolve their digital policy models based on each other's experiences.
The Kansas City Defender is a nonprofit news site for young Black audiences across the Midwest
"We do advocate against the racist function of policing, [but] we focus equally on being present in the community, doing poetry nights, basketball park takeovers, and other ...
For ransomware gangs, journalists are another tool of the trade
They've tried to manipulate reporters on multiple occasions.
Blame Craig: How Facebook’s AI bot explains the decline of the news industry
"Definitely craigslist.... I don't know that facebook is really to blame for anything specific." And maybe the Pope <em>did</em> endorse Trump after all!
If you want an electric car, buy one this week
Biden's about to sign a bill that would instantly make many EVs more expensive
Illuminate Ed Pulled from ‘Student Privacy Pledge’ After Massive Data Breach
Updated Embattled education technology vendor Illuminate Education has become the first-ever company to get booted from the Student Privacy Pledge, an unprecedented move that follows a ...
What toilets say about the latest Trump news cycle
<p>Back in February, Axios shared an early finding from a (still) forthcoming book by Maggie Haberman, a reporter at the New York Times who had heard that, while Donald Trump was president, ...