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To state the obvious, it seems like an odd time to discontinue the one Times beat devoted solely to race and ethnicity. (A few words of reminder: Michael Brown of Ferguson, Eric Garner of Staten Island, Tamir Rice of Cleveland.) But that’s what happened this week, as the Times announced that Tanzina Vega, who has…
Jonathan Chait has written an article for New York Magazine about his concerns that political correctness threatens free debate by trying to silence certain points of view. Political correctness, in Chait’s view, is a “system of left-wing ideological repression” that threatens the “bedrock liberal ideal” of a “free political marketplace where we can reason together…
Mayfair Games, the publisher behind Settlers of Catan and Cones of Dunshire, is offering Extra Extra and Flea Market within the next two months. Settlers of Catan is pretty fun, but if you find yourself playing it as much as the Green Bay Packers, it might be time to mix things with another tabletop game….
Wikileaks sent a letter to Google on Jan. 26 asking details on what materials Google handed over to the the FBI after a warrant was issued in March 2012. Wikileaks also wants to know why Google did not inform Wikileaks employees of the request until Dec. 23, 2014. Google released emails of three Wikileaks members to…
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paging_filterWilliam Turton, 17, stands out from his tech reporter colleagues at The Daily Dot, a fast-growing digital media site dedicated to covering Internet culture.But that doesn’t mean they respect the high school junior any less. “He does not speak or act his age at all,” said Kevin Morris, the Daily Dot editor who brought him…
Facebook announced yet another tweak to the algorithm that governs its users’ News Feeds yesterday. The social network has introduced a new tool that allows users to flag a post as “a false news story.” The move follows a few other attempts by the platform to better delineate different types of content. For example, in…
“We’ve all done it,” begins one of the spicier dialogues in the new Netflix political thriller, “House of Cards.” Janine Skorsky, a veteran political reporter, is revealing to her young colleague, Zoe Barnes, how female journalists in Washington snag their scoops. “I used to suck, screw, and jerk anything that moved just to get a…
Credit: Image by Thinkstock The desire to build a community and reader engagement around articles is a growing focus for publishers and organisations on the web. Community, social media or user-generated content teams have become a mainstay of digital news organisations, and further possibilities for engagement are explored regularly. Now business site CFO has thrown…
Why did the Orange County Register send reporters and photogs to cover 40 — yes, four-zero, 40 — high-school sporting events in one weekend? No, it’s not another news mob. Nor is it a one-time thing. At a time when many newspaper companies are starting to think digital first, the Register is investing in print. The…