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“It’s not wrong if it’s the truth.” —Lois Lane According to the DC Comics calendar, today marks the birthday of the one and only Lois Lane. First appearing in 1938’s Action Comics”#1, Lane came to embody power traits throughout the century, garnering as much acclaim as Superman. During a time when women had limited opportunities and even less…
If there’s one macro trend with which almost every publisher is struggling, it’s the increasing distribution power of platforms like Facebook, and how that is continuing to disrupt traditional media business models. Where they once controlled the entire process from creation to consumption, media companies now see their power over almost all the elements of…
POST WRAPPER POST HEADER ENTRY CONTENT Download PDF What this report finds: The teacher pay penalty is bigger than ever. In 2015, public school teachers’ weekly wages were 17.0 percent lower than those of comparable workers—compared with just 1.8 percent lower in 1994. This erosion of relative teacher wages has fallen more heavily on…
In response to a sexual assault controversy that’s currently engulfing the New York comedy scene, women’s satire site Reductress has devoted its entire landing page to humor articles (primarily written by women) about rape. “Man Who Sexually Assaulted You Likes Your Facebook Post About Sexual Assault” reads one headline, while another touts “I Anonymously Reported…
If you don’t live in or around Louisiana, you may not know that. And it’s not your fault. Cable news has mostly ignored it. Sure, there’s been coverage, but not as much you’d expect given the scale of the suffering. As Rod Dreher noted on his blog, a screenshot of CNN’s home page over the…
Following a day-long auction against the online publisher Ziff Davis, the media conglomerate Univision is buying Gawker Media’s assets—including Deadspin, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Kotaku, and Lifehacker—for $135 million. However, the fate of the company’s flagship website, Gawker.com, remains unclear. Recode’s Peter Kafka reported yesterday that Univision’s final and successful offer shall “encompass all seven of…
Photo Lisa, left, and Anna Hahner in the women’s marathon Sunday. The twins finished 81st and 82nd, in times well off their personal bests. Credit Sergio Moraes/Reuters RIO DE JANEIRO — The Olympics are as much about what warms the heart or initiates debate as who wins the medals. But what warms the heart or…
Insurance giant Aetna will stop selling health insurance through most of the exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act in 2017 because the company said it is losing money in many of those markets. On Monday, Aetna said it will sell individual insurance policies in only 242 counties in four states, down almost 70 percent…
The wealth gap between blacks and whites in America will take hundreds of years to close — if ever. If current trends persist, it will take 228 years for black families to accumulate the same amount of wealth as whites, according to a report released this week from the Corporation for Economic Development and the…