Tag: Newspapers
The old news business model is broken: making Google and Facebook...
Amanda Lotz, Queensland University of Technology
The federal government is talking tough about making Google and Facebook pay Australian news businesses for linking to, or...
Before Breitbart, there was the Charleston News and Courier
Sid Bedingfield, University of Minnesota
Conservatives who dislike Donald Trump like to blame the president and his Breitbart cheering section for the racial demagoguery they...
In an era of billionaire media moguls, do press unions stand...
Marick Masters, Wayne State University
On Nov. 2, billionaire media owner Joe Ricketts abruptly shuttered the digital news sites DNAinfo and the Gothamist, terminating 116...
How union stakes in ailing papers like the Chicago Sun-Times may...
Marick Masters, Wayne State University
The recent purchase of the Chicago Sun-Times for a nominal US$1 by a consortium of labor-affiliated organizations and individual investors...
The slippery slope of the oligarchy media model
Rodney Benson, New York University and Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania
On July 28, Apple heiress Laurene Powell Jobs bought a majority stake in The...
The backstory behind the unions that bought a Chicago Sun-Times stake
Brian Dolber, California State University San Marcos
An investment group led by former Chicago alderman and businessman Edwin Eisendrath and the Chicago Federation of Labor...
Heroes and American politics
Bruce Peabody, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Who counts as a hero in the 21st century?
How is heroism adapting to an age...
Seeking truth among ‘alternative facts’
Peter Neal Peregrine, Lawrence University
Part of what I do as an archaeologist is judge between competing claims to truth. Indeed, you could say this...
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Nancy R. Buchan, University of South Carolina; Wendi L. Adair, University of Waterloo, and Xiao-Ping Chen, University of Washington
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