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Vanity Fair, founded in 1913, created an AMAZING online digital archive with all issues, all pages, and all the fun from the beginning of their time as a magazine until… Read more »

If you keep up with the infuriating news about the Trump administration’s statements and actions against immigrants and refugees, then you are probably familiar with the name Scott Lloyd? The… Read more »

One media professor is taking our country’s reluctance to discern critical information to heart, and teaching students how to detect fake news in social media and more traditional media.  For… Read more »

A few months ago we suggested that when we say “poet voice” you knew what we were talking about: a white-washed set of conventions that have come to seem like… Read more »

“Take 98 percent of whatever energy you devote to worrying about the future of the Times and rechannel it into worrying about your local daily, which is very likely approaching… Read more »

Daniel Radcliffe has done a lot of strange things for his career. … Read more »

Is YA literature breeding pessimism in today’s youth? Has YA become, dare we say, too woke?  Such is the verdict from the Wall Street Journal’s op-ed piece in response to… Read more »

This Monday, the Tronc-owned New York Daily News—one of three dailies still operating in the city—laid off half of its newsroom, another major blow to local news in the twenty-first… Read more »

Celebrated rapper and Chicagoan Chance the Rapper has just purchased the defunct Chicagoist, according to Robert Channick at the Chicago Tribune. The local news and culture site was once owned… Read more »

The East Bay Express: Where #MeToo met up with #WhiteLivesMatter. Welcome to the sad, sad story of Stephen Buel, erstwhile publisher of the Express, an Oakland-based weekly newspaper specializing in investigative journalism… Read more »