China’s Communist Party makes final preparations ahead of its key party congress, a five-yearly event where President Xi Jinping is expected to further tighten his grip on power. Ciara Lee reports.
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Phones and other new technologies mean we’re being “bombarded with news 24/7.” Veteran anchorman Bob Schieffer says there is “no way any human being could process it, let alone sort it out.” Schieffer talks with Brian Stelter about his new book on the subject.
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“Reporting protects women,” Jodi Kantor says. Kantor worked with NYT colleague Megan Twohey to expose allegations of sexual harassment and abuse by Harvey Weinstein. The story was “half an open secret and half this hidden thing that people were terrified to talk about,” she said, and the reporting is far from over.
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Why is a coffee company doubling up as a media company? Starbucks executive chairman Howard Schultz its “Upstdanders” series is about telling “emotionally charged, uplifting” stories that the news media doesn’t spend enough time on.
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Former FCC chair Tom Wheeler says that current FCC chair Ajit Pai’s silence about Trump’s threat to TV broadcast licenses is “shocking.” Wheeler says Pai is “making himself complicit in the coercion that the president was engaging in.” Former commissioner Michael Copps, a fellow Democrat, also weighs in on the issue…
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