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Freedom Communications Inc., owner of the Orange County Register, filed for bankruptcy protection Sunday, and its chief executive said he plans to lead a bid to acquire the troubled newspaper company. The Santa Ana-based newspaper firm, which also owns the Riverside Press-Enterprise, filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court’s Central District of California….
Effective immediately we are suspending the publication of Grantland. After careful consideration, we have decided to direct our time and energy going forward to projects that we believe will have a broader and more significant impact across our enterprise. Grantland distinguished itself with quality writing, smart ideas, original thinking and fun. We are grateful to those who made…
There are two ideas that people on the internet love to hide behind when they get in trouble, despite the fact that they have absolutely no understanding of what those ideas actually mean. The first is freedom of speech, which countless assholes have used as justification for death threats, rape threats, and other things that…
Even in ideal conditions, it is not easy making a living as a freelance writer. It is much harder when the places you write for don’t pay you promptly. That’s where we come in. In most industries, a worker is paid before—or directly after—a service is rendered. Want a massage? Pay up front. Want your…
A turning point for POLITICO Director of Operations Kara Kearns’s career took place Sept. 10, 2001, the last day of her junior-year residency at MSNBC. “On the morning of Sept. 11, I was in my car with every possession of mine in my trunk,” she said. “I was driving home because I had to start school in a…
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I’ve always been a big fan of libraries. I received my first library card on my 4th birthday, which my parents tricked me into thinking was the best birthday gift in the world. It wasn’t exactly a gift – you simply had to be 4 in order to get a library card. It was…
Amazon has posted an aggressive response to the “everyone at Amazon is miserable but also paid well but also crying all the time” story in the New York Times. That story was published 64 days ago, which, according to my proprietary productivity algorithm, works out to about 21 words per day. This will presumably be…
During the summer of 2014, as the Black Lives Matter movement flared amid a spate of questionable police killings, the little known hashtag #every28hours began appearing with increasing frequency on social media. The hashtag is shorthand for the statistic, drawn from a 2013 report by the black activist group Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, that an…
Last month, The Atlantic published an 18,000-word article by Ta-Nehisi Coates called “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” It was the second epic piece in what appears to be a series in which Coates examines the toll of white supremacy as American policy on black life in the United States. The article…