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Photos by John Filo (Getty Images) It is a photograph all young journalists should pin to their cubicle walls: the iconic image of the 1970 Kent State shootings, in which a teenage girl grieves over the body of a slain student. Forget for a moment that the picture is among the most famous in US…
To some, ad blocking is a mortal threat to publishers. To others, it is an overblown fad. More evidence is mounting that ad blocking is more nuisance than existential threat today, but that could easily change. A new survey of users found that only 41 percent of those surveyed were aware of ad blocking. But…
Photo Donald J. Trump at a campaign event Friday in Urbandale, Iowa.Credit Max Whittaker for The New York Times WAUKEE, Iowa – I was late to Donald J. Trump’s unannounced visit to a Pizza Ranch on Friday, his first drop-by of this ubiquitous Iowa chain that is standard stop for candidates, but which Mr. Trump…
When I was in college a couple of journo kids a few years older than me decided to start their own sports publication. They called it N2U, and earnestly explained that it meant they were “into” the “university.” (It was the ’90s, kids. Everything sounded like this.) When it launched, the publishers of N2U had to spend…
Well, that sure got weird, didn’t it? Tribune’s takeover of what used to be called Times-Mirror was messy when it started, a decade and a half ago, and has gotten worse every few years: This is the company, after all, that took over several great newspapers, crowed about “synergy,” and made a few legendary editors…
On Thursday night, Emmett Rensin, the deputy editor of Vox’s first person section, sent a series of tweets that, among other things, urged people to riot if Donald Trump comes to their town. We at Vox do not take institutional positions on most questions, and we encourage our writers to debate and disagree. But direct…
If the Donald Trump campaign is trying to “squelch independent coverage” by removing a reporter from an event, “it will not work,” Politico Editor Susan Glasser says in a statement to Washingtonian. On Thursday night a Trump campaign staffer and a security guard kicked Politico reporter Ben Schreckinger out of a campaign rally in San Jose,…
June 2, 2016 5:42 p.m. ET Tribune Publishing Co., the 150-year-old brand that owns the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune newspapers, is changing its name to tronc Inc. in a nod to the publisher’s transformation into a more digitally focused company. The new moniker, announced on Thursday, functions as an acronym of sorts for…