• What an NYT Reporter’s Doxing Threat Says about the Paper’s ‘Standards’

    What an NYT Reporter’s Doxing Threat Says about the Paper’s ‘Standards’

    The popular pseudonymous blogger behind Slate Star Codex claims that he’s been forced to delete the blog after a New York Times reporter threatened to reveal his identity. It is the latest example of the paper’s willingness to grant anonymity according to inconsistent, ideologically self-serving criteria. In the only post remaining on the site, Slate …
  • DOJ fielding news industry’s antitrust complaints about Google

    DOJ fielding news industry’s antitrust complaints about Google

    Google is getting fat off the struggling news industry by using its position as the nation’s dominant search engine to force publishers into unfair agreements, according to a new research report. The Alphabet-owned internet company has become such a powerful force for driving Web traffic that it even dictates how news publications format their web …
  • Brad Pitt surprises Missouri State University grads with quarantine shout-out

    Brad Pitt surprises Missouri State University grads with quarantine shout-out

    Brad Pitt surprised graduating seniors at Missouri State University with a special video message from quarantine. The video was posted on MSU’s Twitter feed and starts with the university’s president, Clif Smart, alongside mascot, Boomer the Bear, saying he had special guest to deliver a message to students of the class of 2020, who were …
  • Pompeo Warns China against Interfering with U.S. Reporters in Hong Kong

    Pompeo Warns China against Interfering with U.S. Reporters in Hong Kong

    Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday warned China against interfering with the work of American reporters in Hong Kong, following China’s expulsion of several U.S. reporters from the mainland. “It has recently come to my attention that the Chinese government has threatened to interfere with the work of American journalists in Hong Kong. These …
  • Bloomberg Quashed 2013 China Exposé over Concerns CCP ‘Will Probably Kick Us Out of the Country’

    Bloomberg Quashed 2013 China Exposé over Concerns CCP ‘Will Probably Kick Us Out of the Country’

    Bloomberg editors and news executives prevented reporters from following up on an award-winning 2012 investigation into China’s wealthy elite over concerns that the Chinese Communist Party could retaliate by kicking the outlet out of the country, according to audio recordings obtained by NPR. In late October 2013, Bloomberg’s founding editor-in-chief Matthew Winkler explained in a …
  • TV anchors, on-air guests go pantsless during broadcasts from home

    TV anchors, on-air guests go pantsless during broadcasts from home

    Television personalities are trying to get to the bottom of the coronavirus broadcasts — by not wearing any. A video montage compiled by John Oliver’s “Last Week Tonight” contains dozens of clips of local news anchors across the country asking colleagues and guests on-air, “Are you wearing pants?” “I do have pants on. You’re just …
  • China Expelling American Journalists from NYT, WSJ, Washington Post

    China Expelling American Journalists from NYT, WSJ, Washington Post

    China on Tuesday moved to strip the press passes of American reporters at the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post, as Beijing faces accusations of covering up the extent of the coronavirus health crisis. Journalists from the three outlets whose press credentials are set to expire in 2020 will be required to …