A few short weeks that feel like a lifetime ago, we discussed the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak on the English language by charting the immediate, unscheduled additions to the Oxford… Read more »

A Russian publisher is deleting queer stories from children’s books, reports Daria Litvinova for Reuters via the Huffington Post.  The most recent book attacked by this particularly troubling censorship is the… Read more »

This past December, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two Reuters journalists, were unjustly detained in Myanmar following their coverage of the humanitarian crisis caused by ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in… Read more »

For years, we’ve been closely following the case of Swedish bookseller Gui Minhai, apparently abducted by agents of the People’s Republic of China while on vacation in Thailand two years ago, and… Read more »

As the media continues to grapple with how to cover a president who, whether he’s a media savant or not, manages to divert every ounce of their attention to himself,… Read more »

Having exhausted the condition of tragedy, history appears to be repeating itself as farce, much as a certain icon of post-90s Chinese hip-hop (and the subject of an exciting coming-soon biopic) predicted it… Read more »

At this point, Amazon and Germany’s back-and-forth is becoming the stuff of legend. Remember that time Amazon’s warehouse workers in Germany went on strike, then did it again, and again, and again?… Read more »

Riga, the capital city of Latvia, was recently named a European Capital of Culture for 2014 (Umeå, Sweden is the other Capital of Culture). The programs and celebrations scheduled to… Read more »

So this is an interesting turn of events: according to a new study from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, the younger readers they polled across nine countries… Read more »