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The Culture Workers Go On Strike
Dec 2, 2022 Cultural and academic workers would seem to benefit from disruptions of business, including the formation of new unions and strikes by existing ones.
Newspaper Publisher McClatchy Files for Bankruptcy Protection
Feb 13, 2020 Its 30 newsrooms will continue to operate as it reorganizes in a tumultuous industry; the publicly traded company is expected to go private.
Donald Trump Jr. Is Actually Laughing
Nov 12, 2019 “Triggered” may be padded out and borderline unreadable, but it nonetheless offers a revealing glimpse at the president’s namesake.
BuzzFeed Is Plotting an Aggressive New Media Merger
Nov 19, 2018 In a grim media landscape, at least one CEO believes the only way to make money is to band together.
Adam Parfrey, an Uncompromising Rebel
May 17, 2018 The founder and proprietor of the Feral House publishing company, who died May 10, was one of America's most courageous and unconventional publishers.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s Warning on the Dangers of Capitalism (Video)
Jan 24, 2018 "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings," the science fiction writer said in a 2014 speech.
BuzzFeed Dumps Ad Deal With Republican National Committee Over Donald Trump
Jun 9, 2016 Jonah Peretti, the media company’s CEO, said Trump’s presidential campaign is akin to cigarette ads—“hazardous to our health.”
Charlie Hebdo Will No Longer Draw Muhammad Cartoons
Jul 19, 2015 Six months after the Paris attack that claimed the lives of 12 staff members, the French magazine’s editor says it will no longer feature satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. "We've done our job," he said. "We have defended the right to caricature."
Over Half a Century After ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ Harper Lee Plans to Publish Second Novel
Feb 3, 2015 The new book takes place 20 years after the events described in the 1960 best-seller.
Does ESPN Have Room for Free Speech and ‘Monday Night Football’?
Oct 16, 2014 Popular sports commentator Bill Simmons was suspended by ESPN for violating editorial standards -- or was it because he criticized the NFL, which happens to have a $15 billion contract with the network?Popular sports commentator Bill Simmons was suspended by ESPN for violating editorial standards—or was it because he criticized the NFL, which happens to have a $15 billion contract with the network?
