Employment Rates Are Improving For Everyone But Journalism Majors

Shot of a reporter ready to conduct an interview on the street | PeopleImages.com via Getty Images Entry Text We’re back with your daily dose of depressing journalism news: unemployment rates are dropping for nearly all college majors, with the notable exception of journalism students.A new study from Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the…

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KFC’s Latest Novelty Food Is Edible Coffee Cups Made of Cookies — Grub Street

They’re even artificially scented to smell like fresh-cut grass or wildflowers. Surely one of many who cannot wait to eat their cups. Photo: Courtesy of KFC For its latest food-that-probably-shouldn’t-actually-exist, KFC has gone beyond Double Downs and instead created edible coffee cups. (The gimmick is timed to the launch of Seattle’s Best at all of…

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Trolling female gamers in the name of satire isn’t funny—it’s abusive

A video appeared recently that that reawakened fears about Gamergate. It caused game developer Brianna Wu to file a restraining order against the man in the video. It was also a factor in her reasoning to pull her company, Giant Spacekat, out of gaming festival PAX East, fearing for her employees’ safety. It scared Wu, it scared other female developers…

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Verizon issues furious response to FCC, in Morse code, dated 1934 | Ars Technica

cache hit 1091:single/related:5f5a4fba033d6dae2cb3fb65e384b257 empty Verizon is just so mad at the Federal Communications Commission today that a normal press release wouldn’t do.After all, Verizon issues so many press releases denouncing the FCC for trying to regulate telecommunications that today’s vote on net neutrality required a special one to make sure it would be remembered. So Verizon wrote…

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