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In 1968, Columbia University occupied campus buildings to protest the Vietnam War. In 1985, they forced their university to divest from apartheid South Africa. Today, they've set up camp in support of Gaza. hellgatenyc.com/pro-palestine-…

A journey to Korea in search of the bank-shot free throw: defector.com/a-journey-to-k…

'The World Central Kitchen team was traveling in a deconflicted zone in 2 armored cars branded with the WCK logo. Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit as it was leaving the warehouse, where the team had unloaded 100+ tons of food aid.' wck.org/news/gaza-team…

NEW: Deadspin is becoming a gambling referral site. Its new owner, Max Noremo, has a decade of experience in the online gambling affiliate marketing world

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TAKING ACTION: The NYTimesGuild has filed a grievance over the harassment and discrimination of members during the Times' investigation into an alleged leak of newsroom information about “The Daily” to the Intercept. Read more here nyguild.org/post/Grievance

Breaking news: The journalists of the San Antonio San Antonio Express-News and @MySA are unionizing.

For over 150 years, Express-News and MySA have kept the Alamo City informed, and in order to continue our important work, we're forming the San Antonio NewsGuild.

A must-read Q&A between J. Escobedo Shepherd and Lucy Sante, on her new memoir 'I Heard Her Call My Name,' a bracing journey through her gender transition.

hellgatenyc.com/lucy-sante-new…

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A Tesla employee who worshipped Musk died in a fiery crash on a road trip in which he relied heavily on Tesla's 'full self-driving' system. Tesla never publicly acknowledged his death and quickly replaced him. His widow says she now feels like 'we were just guinea pigs.'

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The journalists killed in Gaza — and what they tried to show the world wapo.st/3OCsvTG

Journalists in Gaza have been killed covering the war and sheltering from it. Some have died with their colleagues; others, with their families.

Defector is hiring a staff writer! defectormedia.recruitee.com/o/staff-writer…

'Some staff are concerned about Thompson’s willingness to withstand external attempts to influence coverage given that in a former role as the BBC’s director general he was accused of bowing to Israeli government pressure on a number of occasions...'

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The Hairpin has taken an extremely weird turn and now churns out AI slime. Here's what happened: wired.com/story/plaintex…

Great photo selection by the Post here nypost.com/2024/01/25/bus…

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“But there have also been whispers of potential trouble for ‘Union’ as it relates to acquisition. Major studios might hesitate to buy a film that could alienate Amazon and, by extension, Bezos himself.” hmmm interesting washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…

New owner of Baltimore Sun: 'I haven't read the newspaper in 40 years' washingtonpost.com/style/media/20…

New joint w/ Laura Wagner, reporting off audio of the first meeting David D. Smith had with the Baltimore Sun staff.

So... broadly, this is what Akbar Shahid Ahmed reported on Friday that the White House said was false?

axios.com/2024/01/16/jak…

NEWS: A poultry plant in Mississippi that supplies to fast food industry has been cited $212k after a 16 year-old boy was caught in a machine in the deboning area.

This was the ~2nd time~ in just over 2 years that a worker at the plant had been killed by a machine.