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NPR Suspends Editor Who Claimed Left-Wing Bias at Outlet Had ‘Lost America’s Trust’; Dana White, Donald Trump and the Rise of Cage-Match Politics; Google Blocking Links to California News Outlets From Search Results; Hot Market for Pencils Help Kids Turn Lead Into Gold; There Are Plenty of Power Publicists. But Only One Works for Taylor Swift.; Shake Shack Shades Rival Chick-fil-A With Sunday-Only Free Chicken Sandwich Offer
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LA Times Edits Column and Apologizes After Drawing the Ire of LSU Coach Kim Mulkey; Free Speech Is Alive and Well at Vanderbilt University; one way to stay young forever: type in lowercase; Authoritarians Threaten Journalists Around the Globe; Gmail Debuted 20 Years Ago. It Wasn’t an April Fool’s Joke.
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Royal Photo Scandal: Another Doctored Image Emerges as Kate Middleton Controversy Deepens; ESPN Boss Jimmy Pitaro’s Chaotic Race to Remake the Sports Giant; Apple Is Poised to Go All In on AI, Including a Partnership With Google; Why Some 20-Somethings Are Saying No to TikTok; Inside the Music Industry’s High-Stakes AI Experiments
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Is American Journalism Headed Toward an ‘Extinction-Level Event’?; Inside The New York Times Big Bet on Games; NPR Founding Mother Linda Wertheimer Is Retiring. Read Her Bittersweet Goodbye Note.; Why You Keep Getting Useless Alerts on Your Phone.
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Netflix Buys Rights to WWE Raw, Other Shows in Live Streaming Push; The Sports Illustrated Cover, a Faded Canvas That Once Defined Sports; The Harvard of the Unwoke; Facebook Made a Major Change After Years of PR Disasters, and News Sites Are Paying the Price; How Group Chats Rule the World
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This week we are pausing The Flack in honor of our dear friend and colleague Mike Casey.
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When The New York Times Lost Its Way; Harvard Faculty Appeal to the University’s Board to Address Growing Number of Crises; Top 25 Podcasts in 2023; Striking Findings From 2023; A Look Back at the top Business Stories of 2023
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