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Media

Protestors hold portraits of missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi outside Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday. Khoshoggi disappeared upon visiting the consulate last week. (Bulent Kilic/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump Administration presses Saudis for information on missing journalist

"We cannot let this happen, to reporters, to anybody. And we're going to get to the bottom of it," Trump said.

7 years ago

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on 'Foreign Influence Operations and Their Use of Social Media Platforms' on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018, in Washington. (Jose Luis Magana/AP)
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Community

Most Twitter accounts linked to 2016 disinformation are still active, report finds

Disinformation networks publish more than a million tweets a day, the authors found.

7 years ago

Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown adopts its own net neutrality law prompting the Justice Department to sue the state in an effort to block what's describe as the
NPR
Courts & Law

Justice Department sues California over net neutrality law

An equal playing field that prevents internet companies from slowing down or blocking some content was signed into law by California Gov. Jerry Brown

7 years ago

A cursor moves over Google's search engine page on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018, in Portland, Ore. (Don Ryan/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Google CEO holds ‘very productive’ meeting with U.S. lawmakers

Google CEO Sundar Pichai went to Washington Friday.

7 years ago

Bill Cosby is escorted out of the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, Tuesday Sept. 25, 2018, in Eagleville, Pa., following his sentencing to three-to-10-year prison sentence for sexual assault. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)
Courts & Law

With Bill Cosby in prison, what’s next?

Cosby's legal team says it will appeal, but he'll be in prison when they do.

7 years ago

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All Things Considered host Mary Louise Kelly (right) records a standup with producer Becky Sullivan at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang ahead of a military parade marking the 70th anniversary of North Korea's founding.
(David Guttenfelder/for NPR)
NPR
Politics & Policy

101 ways to thwart a reporter in Pyongyang

NPR is visiting North Korea on the government's terms.

7 years ago

Vox photo editor Kainaz Amaria thinks it's time the photojournalism world reckons with what she sees as an industry-wide culture of sexual harassment with roots in a glaring gender imbalance. (Nick Oza/Courtesy of Kainaz Amaria)
NPR
Community

Photojournalists are demanding a #MeToo reckoning

Amaria argues that her male-dominated field creates a "toxic culture" that silences women in the profession and has kept a full reckoning from taking place.

7 years ago

Miss New York Nia Franklin reacts after being named Miss America 2019, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018, in Atlantic City, N.J. (Noah K. Murray/AP Photo)
Arts & Entertainment

Miss America ratings fall amid drop of swimsuit competition

The Miss America ceremony subtracted the swimsuit competition for the first time in its 98-year history, and subtracted one million television viewers, too.

7 years ago

A Capital Gazette newspaper rack displays the day's front page, Friday, June 29, 2018, in Annapolis, Md. A man armed with smoke grenades and a shotgun attacked journalists in the newspaper's building Thursday, killing several people before police quickly stormed the building and arrested him, police and witnesses said. (Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)
Community
The Conversation

Violence against the media isn’t new – history shows why it largely disappeared and has now returned

Another news outlet has been attacked in the United States.

7 years ago

Les Moonves, chairman and CEO of CBS Corporation, faces accusations of sexual harassment from at least 12 women. (Chris Pizzello/Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
NPR
Community

Les Moonves out at CBS after harassment allegations

Moonves' departure comes after six new allegations of harassment or assault were published in the New Yorker magazine over the weekend.

7 years ago

Elon Musk (Kiichiro Sato/AP)
NPR
Money

Tesla stock takes a hit — after Elon Musk does the same

Musk, 47, appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience Thursday night.

7 years ago

Alex Jones of InfoWars talks to reporters outside a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Wednesday. Twitter has permanently suspended the conspiracy theorist, citing violations of its policy on abusive behavio
NPR
Community

Twitter bans Alex Jones and InfoWars; cites abusive behavior

Twitter on Thursday said it has "permanently suspended" conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his InfoWars outle

7 years ago

Myanmar journalist Wa Lone (center) is escorted by police after being sentenced by a court to jail in Yangon on Monday. Foreign governments and human rights groups condemned the decision.
NPR
Courts & Law

Reuters journalists in Myanmar convicted, sentenced to 7 years

A court in Myanmar sentenced two journalists to seven years in prison Monday for illegal possession of official documents.

7 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in West Virginia earlier this month. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

President Trump’s description of what’s ‘fake’ is expanding

Presidential tweets about "fake news" aren't new, but August was unique in the sheer frequency of such presidential declarations on Twitter.

7 years ago

Tyler Mitchell photographed Beyoncé for the September issue of Vogue.
(Courtesy of Vogue)
NPR
Lifestyle

Tyler Mitchell on being the first African-American to photograph a ‘Vogue’ cover

When Vogue unveiled its annual fashion issue earlier this month, the Internet took notice.

7 years ago

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