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Famous writers at New Yorker are up in arms after fact-checker’s firing The media company dismissed four employees, including a fact-checker at the 100-year-old magazine, for “extreme misconduct.” Many of its famous writers are outraged.

“A line, long smudged, has been crossed,” staff writer Tad Friend wrote on an all-staff email chain. “Union busting sucks,” wrote author Susan Orlean.

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Famous writers at New Yorker are up in arms after fact-checker’s firing The media company dismissed four employees, including a fact-checker at the 100-year-old magazine, for “extreme misconduct.” Many of its famous writers are outraged.

“It’s frankly embarrassing that executives would make baseless claims about a fact-checker.”

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Famous writers at New Yorker are up in arms after fact-checker’s firing The media company dismissed four employees, including a fact-checker at the 100-year-old magazine, for “extreme misconduct.” Many of its famous writers are outraged.

This was supposed to be a season for celebration at the New Yorker.

Instead, some of the most famous writers in America are up in arms about parent company Condé Nast firing a fact-checker for “extreme misconduct."

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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

Remarkable story from @taracopp.bsky.social:

"U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols"

White House defends Trump calling female reporter ‘Piggy’ The president has escalated his attacks on the press amid political blowback for his handling of files related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

At the White House today, the Press Secretary defended President Trump's comments calling a female Bloomberg reporter "Piggy."

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Inbox: Fox News named Bill Melugin as a congressional correspondent.

One America News says it will air an interview between Pentagon correspondent Alexandra Ingersoll and Secretary Pete Hegseth. OAN was the only outlet that regularly covered the Pentagon in person that signed the recent press access policy.

NPR and CPB settle, reinstating $36 million in satellite funding NPR had sued the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to cut off its funding.

> New: NPR and CPB, two public media giants, settle their legal feud.

Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.

Lynsey Addario in ‘Love+War’: A War Photographer’s Life on the Front Lines and at Home - Nieman Reports A new documentary captures Lynsey Addario’s work as a photojournalist balancing conflict reporting and motherhood.

"I almost never talk about my children when I'm on assignment, because I don't want to be sidelined and don't want [anyone to think] 'Oh, she can't do it anymore because she's a mother.'" @lynseyaddario.bsky.social

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How Talking Points Memo lasted a quarter century. Josh Marshall reflects on building “a tabloid for smart people” and how his politics blog survived in a “chaotic and unstable and bad business.”

"It is a chaotic and unstable and bad business, but if you have an owner who is really committed to the journalism and also really feels a personal need to keep the thing going, that changes the equation." @joshtpm.bsky.social to @liamjscott.bsky.social

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Don’t call it MSNBC. MS NOW takes on Trump’s Washington. Going it alone without NBC’s name or deep bench of reporters, the rebranded cable news network MS Now wants you to know nothing has changed — except for a few things.

ICYMI:

"Don’t call it MSNBC. MS NOW takes on Trump’s Washington."

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Don’t call it MSNBC. MS Now takes on Trump’s Washington. Going it alone without NBC’s name or deep bench of reporters, the rebranded cable news network MS Now wants you to know nothing has changed — except for a few things.

NBC owner Comcast began spinning off its cable news networks MSNBC and CNBC, plus other brands, into a new company called Versant.

While CNBC is keeping its name, MSNBC is assuming a fresh moniker: MS Now.

Don’t call it MSNBC. MS NOW takes on Trump’s Washington. Going it alone without NBC’s name or deep bench of reporters, the rebranded cable news network MS Now wants you to know nothing has changed — except for a few things.

“Nobody’s calling our shots except good news judgment about what the public needs to know” — @carolleonnig.bsky.social about @ms.now

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Don’t call it MSNBC. MS Now takes on Trump’s Washington. Going it alone without NBC’s name or deep bench of reporters, the rebranded cable news network MS Now wants you to know nothing has changed — except for a few things.

MSNBC is now MS NOW.

Going it alone without NBC’s name or bench of reporting talent, the rebranded cable news network is staffing up. MS Now wants you to know that nothing has changed — except for a few things.

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The cheap health insurance promoted by Trump officials has this catch As millions brace for higher insurance prices, plans touted by the Trump administration are attracting attention. They are cheaper, but coverage is often skimpy.

They bought cheap health insurance promoted by the Trump administration. Then they needed surgery.

Don’t call it MSNBC. MS Now takes on Trump’s Washington. Going it alone without NBC’s name or deep bench of reporters, the rebranded cable news network MS Now wants you to know nothing has changed — except for a few things.

“To replace NBC News’s roster of reporters and hosts, MS Now is building a newsroom of its own. The network says it is the rare process of bulking up in a news ecosystem battered by persistent layoffs and shrinking resources.”

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Don’t call it MSNBC. MS Now takes on Trump’s Washington. Going it alone without NBC’s name or deep bench of reporters, the rebranded cable news network MS Now wants you to know nothing has changed — except for a few things.

MSNBC is now MS NOW.

Going it alone without NBC’s name or bench of reporting talent, the rebranded cable news network is staffing up. MS Now wants you to know that nothing has changed — except for a few things.

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BBC apologizes to Trump for 2024 documentary but rejects defamation claim British broadcaster responds to $1 billion lawsuit threat from president’s lawyer over the editing of footage from Trump’s speech before the attack on the Capitol.

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The BBC says it formally apologized to President Donald Trump over a documentary episode after he threatened to sue over it. However, the broadcaster rejected his claims that it was defamatory. Legal experts say it’d be a tough task to win too.

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Brendan Carr should ditch speech-chilling policy, former FCC chairs say A bipartisan group of predecessors says the agency’s current chairman is improperly wielding a little-used policy against broadcasters critical of President Donald Trump.

Brendan Carr should ditch speech-chilling policy, former FCC chairs say

Read more in this @washingtonpost.com story by @scottnover.bsky.social:

Brendan Carr should ditch speech-chilling policy, former FCC chairs say A bipartisan group of predecessors says the agency’s current chairman is improperly wielding a little-used policy against broadcasters critical of President Donald Trump.

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A group of bipartisan former FCC commissioners and chairs are calling on @BrendanCarrFCC to repeal the agency’s “news distortion” policy which, they say, he's using to chill free speech. My latest for @washingtonpost:

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Brendan Carr should ditch speech-chilling policy, former FCC chairs say A bipartisan group of predecessors says the agency’s current chairman is improperly wielding a little-used policy against broadcasters critical of President Donald Trump.

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A bipartisan group of former FCC commissioners and chairs are calling on Chairman Brendan Carr to drop the agency’s “news distortion” policy they say chills free speech. My latest for @washingtonpost.com:

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House Democrats release Epstein email that claimed Trump ‘spent hours’ with victim In a 2011 email, the disgraced financier wrote to Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims.

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“I think you should let him hang himself. If he says he hasn’t been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency,” the author Michael Wolff wrote to Jeffrey Epstein.

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Inside the CIA’s secret mission to sabotage Afghanistan’s opium In a decade-long secret operation, the CIA modified poppy seeds and dropped them by the billions from aircraft over Afghanistan in an attempt to weaken the potency of the country’s opium crop.

Read Warren Strobel's wild report on the CIA's effort to undermine Afghanistan's opium.

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Here's the letter that Trump's lawyer Alejandro Brito sent to the BBC threatening a defamation lawsuit if it doesn't retract the Panorama documentary by Friday.

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Trump threatens BBC with lawsuit amid editing scandal fallout Lawyers for Trump say the British government-supported broadcaster defamed the president in its report about Trump’s speech on Jan. 6, 2021.

NEW for @washingtonpost.com:

>> Donald Trump sent a letter threatening the BBC with a defamation lawsuit. The threat comes after two BBC leaders resigned amid fallout from a whistleblower report alleging misleading editing of Trump's Jan. 6, 2021 speech.

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BBC’s top leaders resign over Trump speech editing controversy The BBC’s top officials, Tim Davie and Deborah Turness, stepped down amid allegations a documentary misleadingly edited Trump’s Jan. 6 speech.

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BBC top brass Tim Davie and Deborah Turness resigned today following criticism of an Oct. 2024 Panorama episode that, a whistleblower said, misleadingly edited Donald Trump's Jan. 6, 2021 speech.

Far-right provocateur Nick Fuentes is triggering a MAGA civil war Once barred from nearly every social media platform, Fuentes’s resurgence has driven a wedge through the conservative movement.

"He’s getting the time of day from people who six months ago would have turned and run the other direction from him."

@willoremus.com

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Bari Weiss’s first month at CBS News unfolds in a newsroom culture clash Bari Weiss took over as editor in chief in October, launching a new era for CBS News amid layoffs, confusion and shifting expectations.

“While some employees haven’t been impressed with Weiss’s story instincts, others say the morning meetings haven’t much changed. There is a long tradition, one employee said, of the bosses ‘spitballing dumb ideas’”

Bari Weiss’s first month at CBS News unfolds in a newsroom culture clash Bari Weiss took over as editor in chief in October, launching a new era for CBS News amid layoffs, confusion and shifting expectations.

“It’s a metaphor. I think people love what CBS used to be.”
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