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Masih Alinejad speaks onstage during a conference hosted by Women In Cable Television on Oct. 16, 2018, in New York City.

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  • Law

The Journalist Iran Allegedly Sought To Kidnap Says She Would Have Been Killed

Masih Alinejad, an Iranian American journalist, says she is the target of an alleged kidnapping plot recently described in a federal indictment: "It's just obvious that they were going to execute me."

July 15, 2021
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By:
  • Steve Inskeep
U.S. Agency for Global Media General Counsel David Kligerman stands for a portrait in Washington, D.C, on Jan. 25. He was one of the six executives who faced retaliation under the agency's former CEO, Michael Pack.

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  • Politics

A Report Clears Federal Officials Who Were Suspended By A Trump Appointee Over VOA

The State Department inspector general says six executives at the U.S. Agency for Global Media were unfairly punished after they raised concerns about steps taken under Trump appointee Michael Pack.

July 10, 2021
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By:
  • David Folkenflik
In an interview with NPR, Barry Diller, chairman of IAC, called the movie business dead. Here, he walks to a session of the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Idaho on Wednesday.

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  • Business

Barry Diller Headed 2 Hollywood Studios. He Now Says The Movie Business Is Dead

In an exclusive interview with NPR, the IAC chairman laments the state of the movie industry, saying the rise in streaming has upended both the business model and the quality of films being made.

July 08, 2021
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By:
  • David Gura
Georgia election workers begin their recount of ballots after the November election. Despite three recounts of the tally, former President Donald Trump and his allies falsely claim electoral fraud cost him the state.

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  • Politics

How Pro-Trump Local News Sites Keep Pushing 2020 Election Misinformation

A small news site founded days after the 2020 election has become a go-to source for Republicans eager to claim that former President Donald Trump actually won the state of Georgia last fall.

July 02, 2021
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler
Pinterest is the 14th most popular social platform in the world. The platform has long prohibited ads displaying harmful messaging.

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  • Business

Pinterest Bans All Weight Loss Ads

Pinterest will now ban all ads containing weight loss language or imagery, adding to the platform's growing roster of prohibited content.

July 01, 2021
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By:
  • Savannah Sicurella
Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones accepts a Peabody Award in May 2016.

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  • Business

After Contentious Debate, UNC Grants Tenure To Nikole Hannah-Jones

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's trustees' earlier refusal to take up her case inspired a bruising national debate over race, journalism and academic freedom.

July 01, 2021
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By:
  • David Folkenflik
Tucker Carlson, host of <em>Tucker Carlson Tonight</em>, on the set of his Fox News program in 2017.

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  • Media

Tucker Carlson Says The NSA Wants Him Off The Air. Fox News Isn't Following His Lead

The Fox News star claims the National Security Agency has seen his emails and texts and plans to leak them to force him off the air. But the network hasn't backed up those claims with any reporting.

July 01, 2021
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  • David Folkenflik
Outside the Fox News headquarters building in New York City.

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  • Media

Fox News Pays Record Fine Over #MeToo Violations of NYC Human Rights Law

Under a settlement with New York City, Fox News will not require staffers to enter secret arbitration in new contracts for the next four years. The process kept harassment claims from public view.

June 30, 2021
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  • David Folkenflik
In this June 29, 2018, file photo, pictures of five employees of the <em>Capital Gazette</em> newspaper adorn candles during a vigil across the street from where they were slain in the newsroom in Annapolis, Md.

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  • Law

The 'Capital Gazette' Gunman's Trial Began Today. Here's What You Need To Know

Five people died in the attack on the Capital Gazette on June 28, 2018. The mass shooting was the deadliest attack on a newsroom in modern U.S. history.

June 29, 2021
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  • Jaclyn Diaz,
  • Dominique Maria Bonessi,
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Marc Andreessen, co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz. The venture capital firm recently launched a media property recently known as Future, the latest in a string of Silicon Valley companies making in-house publications aimed at friendly, pro-tech coverage.

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  • Technology

Stung By Media Coverage, Silicon Valley Starts Its Own Publications

Venture capital powerhouse Andreessen Horowitz has launched a website it calls "the future of media." The firm has backed Clubhouse and Substack, two efforts to take messages directly to the public.

June 26, 2021
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By:
  • Bobby Allyn
A man buys multiple copies of the latest Apple Daily newspaper in Hong Kong. Police raided the office of Apple Daily, the city's fierce pro-democracy newspaper, in an operation involving more than 200 officers. Secretary for Security John Lee said the company used "news coverage as a tool" to harm national security, according to local media reports.

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  • Asia

Hong Kong's Apple Daily To Shut Down This Weekend After Having Its Assets Frozen

The pro-democracy newspaper will run its last edition on Saturday — signaling the end to Hong Kong's once freewheeling and muckraking reporting environment as well.

June 24, 2021
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  • Emily Feng
Police tape blocks access from a street leading to the building complex where the Capital Gazette is located on June 29, 2018, in Annapolis, Md. The suspect barricaded a back door in an effort to "kill as many people as he could kill," police said.

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  • Law

Jury Selection Begins In Trial Of Gunman Involved In Capital Gazette Shooting

The attack at the Maryland newspaper in 2018 killed five employees. The gunman has pleaded guilty and the jury is set to decide whether he was "criminally responsible for reason of insanity."

June 23, 2021
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By:
  • Dominique Maria Bonessi
A bid for tenure by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been opposed by a leading donor of the journalism school, <em>Arkansas Democrat-Gazette </em>Publisher Walter Hussman.

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  • Media

UNC Journalism School Tried To Give Nikole Hannah-Jones Tenure. A Top Donor Objected

The star New York Times reporter's bid for a tenured professorship has run aground on racial politics and an approach to journalism that runs counter to the donor whose name adorns the school.

June 21, 2021
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By:
  • David Folkenflik
Code Switch host and senior producer Shereen Marisol Meraji.

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  • Race

Some Bittersweet Code Switch News

We are thrilled (and, frankly, devastated) to announce that Code Switch host and senior producer Shereen Marisol Meraji will be leaving Code Switch in August for a couple of new opportunities.

June 17, 2021
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  • Code Switch
Apple Daily editor-in-chief Ryan Law is escorted by police to a waiting vehicle outside the entrance of the Apple Daily newspaper offices in Hong Kong on Thursday.

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  • Asia

Police Arrest 'Apple Daily' Editors Under Hong Kong Security Law

The five editorial executives, including the editor in chief, were arrested Thursday morning amid a raid of the news outlets' offices.

June 17, 2021
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By:
  • Emily Feng
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