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Fox News has not interviewed Trump in 100+ days, nor aired his recent rallies live; sources: the snubs are intentional and extend to the highest levels of Fox — The former president hasn't been interviewed on the Rupert Murdoch-owned cable network in more than 100 days, and other Republicans often get the attention he once did.
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Nicholas Kristof returns to The New York Times as a columnist after stepping down to run for governor of Oregon; Kristof began writing NYT columns in 2001 — The journalist who first started here in 1984 and began writing columns for us in 2001 returns to Times Opinion.


Jerry Ceppos, who was the dean of two journalism schools and the managing editor of The Mercury News when the newspaper won two Pulitzer Prizes, dies at 75 — He led the organization to two Pulitzer Prizes while focusing its lens on technology and diversity
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A profile of The Washington Post's Sally Buzbee, including interviews with her and colleagues on newsroom restructuring, Twitter, and managing a remote team — The executive editor opens up about her first frenetic year atop the masthead—tackling everything from newsroom restructuring to Twitter tumult …
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Luck, John Lasseter's first film as head of Skydance Animation, debuts on Apple TV+ on August 5; Lasseter was ousted from Pixar in 2017 over workplace behavior — John Lasseter was toppled five years ago by allegations about his workplace behavior. He's back with an animated film and a studio that could be Pixar 2.0.
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Alabama prison officials examined female reporters' clothing and tried to block an AL.com reporter from witnessing an execution because her skirt was too short — Alabama prison officials examined female reporters' clothing and tried to block a female reporter with AL.com …
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A profile of Sam Sanders, the founding host of NPR's It's Been a Minute show who left public radio after 12 years to launch a pop culture podcast for Vulture — After 12 years at NPR, the former host of “It's Been a Minute” is stepping out with a new pop culture podcast — uncensored, uninhibited and unbothered.
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Guatemalan authorities arrested journalist José Rubén Zamora, elPeriódico's president and a vocal government critic, and raided the outlet's offices on Friday — José Rubén Zamora, an award-winning journalist and president of the elPeriódico newspaper …
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A look at the tracker built by NYC nonprofit news outlet City Limits to count people in the city's shelters, “a wonderful example of public-service journalism” — A nonprofit news outlet has spent the past half year publishing more complete data on homelessness.


Q&A with Keith Bernstein, whose online service Tempo will allow companies that want to use music legally to input a playlist of songs and figure out licensing — Crunch Digital's Keith Bernstein on empowering new businesses to know more about proper licensing. “Music has value,” he says, “and music is undervalued.”


A look at Outside's aggressive and successful anti-union campaign, which included the argument that a union would jeopardize its ability to attract VC money — Outside Magazine ran an aggressive anti-union campaign that highlighted the company's unique funding structure, current and former staff say


Police arrest a man with a loaded gun outside the Brooklyn home of an Iranian American journalist who was the target of a 2021 Iran-orchestrated kidnapping plot — Masih Alinejad, a journalist who lives in Brooklyn, was the target of an international kidnapping plot last year, according to a federal indictment and the writer.