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What we should hope for if Baltimore gets a ‘newspaper war’

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Last summer, as the country reeled from the murder of George Floyd and the police killing of Breonna Taylor, American food media went through its own race-related upheaval. Fueled by the broader national reckoning as well as internal controversies, many publications launched conversations about appropriation, white privilege, and the relationships between professional success, cultural heritage,...

Belarus’s Information War

Oct 6, 2021 By Charles McPhedran

It’s April in 2018, and Stepan Putilo, nineteen years old, smirks as he speaks into his laptop camera. With a landscape painting hanging on a white wall—and little else—in the background, the setup looks like that of a freshman news anchor in his hastily decorated first apartment. Putilo lives in Warsaw, in exile from his...

The remnants of Hong Kong’s independent press

Sep 29, 2021 By Rachel Cheung

This past June, Hong Kong police raided the newsroom of Apple Daily, a widely-read newspaper that has campaigned for democracy and against the Chinese government. They froze millions worth of assets and arrested its senior editors on charges of foreign collusion. Days later, the paper closed. Hong Kong media now resembles that of mainland China,...

Retail Politics

Sep 27, 2021 By E. Tammy Kim

Bitter Lake, in northwest Seattle, derives its name from the acidic residue of a long since demolished sawmill. Small and oblong, it now hosts noisy, profusely defecatory gaggles of Canada geese and sits beside houses, apartments, and the Broadview Thomson elementary and middle school. In the spring of 2020, camping tents began to pop up...

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