Has a book ever brought you closer to or come between you? My sister Clara (Kiki) is a voracious reader. A few years ago he told me how “The Warmth of Other Suns” had affected him. He said it was the most important book he had ever read. I read it and thought it was …
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With over one million weekly listeners for its AM and FM stations, WNYC experienced significant staff turnover last year. Fourteen journalists resigned or were fired from a staff of more than 150 editorial staff. In April, the station laid off four people working in the newsroom. SAG-AFTRA has filed an unfair work practice complaint with …
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Twitter said on Tuesday it will provide users with access to ad-free articles from the Washington Post, Reuters, BuzzFeed and other publications through its subscription service called Twitter Blue. The offer is part of Twitter’s effort to find new revenue streams. company in January acquired revue, a service that lets people create newsletters, and a …
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Twitter said on Tuesday it will provide users with access to ad-free articles from the Washington Post, Reuters, BuzzFeed and other publications through its subscription service called Twitter Blue. The offer is part of Twitter’s effort to find new revenue streams. company in January acquired revue, a service that lets people create newsletters, and a …
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Two reputable scientific journals retracted two articles based on DNA samples from Uyghurs in western China after questions arose about whether the subjects had given full consent. The two studies were published in 2019 by the International Journal of Legal Medicine and Human Genetics, both owned by the academic publisher Springer Nature. They listed multiple …
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Snopes, which has long presented itself as the internet’s leading fact-checking source, withdrew 60 articles after a BuzzFeed News investigation found that the site’s co-founder had plagiarized news sources as part of a strategy aimed at increasing web traffic. “As you can imagine, our staff were frightened and appalled by this situation,” Snopes chief operating …
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