Top news of the week: 20.11.2022.
Everything to know about Canada’s Online News Act hearings
<p>Parliamentary hearings for Canada’s Online News Act–or the Liberal government’s attempt to rectify the imbalance between platforms and publishers–have so far yielded insight into the ...
Meta’s layoffs make it official: Facebook is ready to part ways with the news
"Meta had the resources at its peak to do incredible things. Not just the dollars, but the encouragement to think of the best outcome possible, to make the biggest impact we could."
The Boston Globe names NPR news chief Nancy Barnes as its next editor
Barnes, who has strong local roots and has been the lead editor in Houston and Minneapolis, will be the Globe’s 13th editor in the organization’s 150-year history and the first woman to ...
Gannett tells its news division that more layoffs are coming Dec. 1
From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling ...
Journalism That Holds Power to Account
A federal judge allowed the company to acquire a clearinghouse of health insurance claims. UnitedHealth says it won’t use the data to give itself an edge, even as some company documents ...
Shadow Diplomats
The untold story of how hundreds of rogue honorary consuls, including alleged terror financiers and criminals, have undermined a little-known system of global diplomacy.
NPR announces opening of Kyiv, Ukraine Bureau
The Ukraine Bureau will be led by Joanna Kakissis
Protocol, the tech-news focused website, will shutter and lay off its entire staff
Protocol, the upstart technology news website launched by former Politico owner and publisher Robert Allbritton in early 2020, will shutter later this week and lay off dozens of staffers, ...