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Copies of the report by Robert Mueller have been distributed, like flashlights during a deep fog. What we’ve made out so far, and will continue to see, is a landscape of not only the new but also what had been there all along—what we’d become accustomed to seeing only through the obscured view of heavy...
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On a Sunday in early February, Lilian Tahan, executive director of the Brazilian news website Metrópoles received a call from the morning editor. News was coming out that Sabrina Bittencourt—the activist behind the recent downfall of famous faith healer João Teixeira de Faria, also known as “John of God,” over sexual assault charges—had committed suicide....
In Tajikistan, America’s beacon for a free press may have been corrupted
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a network of radio stations funded by the US government to counter misinformation abroad, pledges to provide “fair and objective news, analysis, and discussion.” It was described last month in this magazine as “Washington’s open, public way to compete with Russian state-controlled media and disinformation.” But it may actually be helping...
World Press Photo disinvites photographer to industry awards
The World Press Photo Foundation disinvited an award-winning photographer from its annual awards ceremony Thursday following allegations of “inappropriate behavior,” according to the foundation. This is the first time in the organization’s six-decade-long history that it has done so. Andrew Quilty’s photographs of the aftermath of a bombing in Kabul, some of which ran in...
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I wrote a story that became a legend. Then I discovered it wasn’t true.
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The New York Times will publish a 16-page special print section tomorrow, including summaries & highlights from the paper's annotations of the Mueller Report.
— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) April 18, 2019The National Enquirer is being sold for $100 million to James Cohen, CEO of Hudson News https://t.co/iKeDyMCe5G
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) April 18, 2019Like Assange or not, the US affidavit is clearly criminalizing #journalism. This could set a very bad precedent for #pressfreedom in the US and potentially around the world. https://t.co/ApVecWVjOX
— Daniel O'Maley (@domaley) April 17, 2019Fascinating insights, via cognitive science, into why misinformation has such power. For example, we often remember things without recalling their source. Our biases also feed in: Memory is better at consistent narrative than accurate recording. https://t.co/QeCqp6TIed @NiemanLab
— Jane Singer (@JaneBSinger) April 17, 2019On balance, Floyd Abrams says, "it seems to me that the government has used significant restraint in making only this single rather unique charge against Assange and the ultimate impact on the press may thus be limited." https://t.co/7223pjBGN2
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