Antino Kim, Alan R. Dennis, Patricia L. Moravec, Randall K. Minas
We’re long past the era of having nice things, and that’s doubly true when it comes to the climate. So it’s fitting that even on a day when there’s a bit of good news about coal’s decline, we also learned that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new peak.
In the aftermath of the twin shocks of 2016—Brexit on one side of the Atlantic, Donald Trump on the other—many in the media identified “fake news” as the culprit and as one of the emergent evils of the modern world. It was invoked the way terrorism was after 9/11: shadowy, stateless, destabilizing. It’s no surprise that, by June of 2019, 50 percent of Americans viewed it as a bigger threat than terrorism, with 70 percent saying that it was greatly affecting trust in government institutions....
Google News is getting a new feature that aims to provide you with an audio news readout that is ever-evolving throughout your day. It’s a news update or briefing that learns because the day, your location, and interests are constantly changing. The new feature is called “Your News Update” and you’ll find it by opening
Aggregator apps like Apple News have turned into a solid, if unpredictable source of referral traffic to publishers' commerce content. And in turn, those aggregators have started to experiment more with how they can leverage that content for their own purposes.
Channel Ten will launch an extended 90-minute news bulletin this week, the network has confirmed.
Facebook recently announced that white supremacist propaganda site Breitbart would be considered a “high quality” news source on its platform, leading to complaints that Facebook was legitmising hate. But it’s fine, according to one Facebook executive who gave an interview at the Code Media conference in Los Angeles on Monday, because Facebook also includes the “far left” in its News tab.
Three former Fox News staffers released a joint statement condemning the host Sean Hannity's suggestion that Bill O'Reilly should return to the network.
A viral video showed world leaders appearing to mock President Trump, a rising death toll in Iran and more.
The next phase of the impeachment process begins. A Democratic contender drops out of the presidential race. And the Attorney General weighs in on protests against police.
Each day since the beginning of October, the team of designers, technologists, and researchers at Beautiful News Daily (a project by Information Is Beautiful) have been posting infographics and data visualizations that share some good news about the world. The site’s tagline is “unseen trends, uplifting stats, creative solutions”.
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is a rodomont. Not to mention a grobian. And, of course, a Sinon suffering from proditomania. With Trump firmly lodged in our heads, it is understandable if we have all