How Newsweek Became A Zombie Magazine
These controversies hollowed out Newsweek's staff and its brand. Its clickbait-heavy approach, aimed at gaming search engines, has declined since it was spun off from parent company IBT Medi…
These controversies hollowed out Newsweek's staff and its brand. Its clickbait-heavy approach, aimed at gaming search engines, has declined since it was spun off from parent company IBT Medi…
How does framing stories for this audience shape how public radio stations tell stories? At every stage of story production"from the reporter's "pitch" to their editor, through the process o…
That setup also has a brutal punch line"one that left Joseph Tartaro at one point facing $12,049 of traffic fines wrongly sent his way. He's still not sure if he'll be able to renew his auto…
People don't gather 'surplus'. Instead, they collect cars, harvest grain or store canned foods. In reality, accumulation is practised and thought about in relation to the specificity of the …
Recent studies from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have confirmed that computer facial recognition is less accurate at match…
The $750-million building project is on schedule, with the completion planned for the end of 2023. The new Peter Zumthor-designed building has stirred controversy for its square footage as w…
Like office workers across the United States, journalists have been pushed by the coronavirus to retreat from communal spaces and into remote work. Now some are confronting the very real pos…
The manuscripts of literary works-in-progress fascinate on many levels, from the flush-faced thrill of spying on something intensely private and the visceral delight of knowing that a legend…
This early promise of a more equitÂable industry didn't last. Once the studio system kicked into gear, women were largely muscled out of positions of authority. There are exploding opport…
"In the beginning, people kept saying, 'What are they doing?!'" Mr. Ajala said. "I had to convince them that ballet wasn't a bad or indecent dance, but actually something that requires a lot…
Some motivation produces excellent performance; too much motivation produces choking. Some group collaboration produces cohesion and enhances productivity; too much of it leads to staleness.…
Theatre union: "The entire industry has been shocked by Cameron Mackintosh's unwillingness to use the coronavirus job retention scheme in full or deploy resources beyond the furlough months …
In many eastern European countries such as Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Czechia and Poland the locals' desire to forget their collective traumatic past is paradoxically interwoven with the ne…
Rene Girard was almost the Platonic ideal of a hedgehog: he belongs to that lineage of 19th- and 20th-century thinkers whose vast synthetic ambition is now seen by many in the academy as not…
American academia is a hotbed of proliferating identities supported and largely shaped by the higher ranks of administrators, faculty, student groups, alumni, and trustees. Not all identitie…
Even as its legacy platform's audience has declined, though, NPR says it is reaching more people than ever. The dip in radio listenership " 22 percent " has coincided with a record number of…
The Women's Prize for Fiction recently debuted an upcoming project which will mark the 25th anniversary of the prize: an initiative called "Reclaim Her Name" (#ReclaimHerName) which republis…
With fewer or no opportunities to perform live at school, can music degrees live up to their mandate to prepare students for a career? In other words, what is the value of a socially distanc…
The artwork is entirely digital. It's part of a new, citywide augmented reality art show called Amp'Up Seattle. By downloading a free app with the same name, anyone can access eight virtual …
"A lot of libraries are thinking about their civic role a little more, and how they might help people coming out of the pandemic. They've always done that stuff, but will need to do it 10 ti…
The lawsuit was filed against Netflix, Disney, Hulu, DirecTV, and Dish Network on August 4 in Indiana Commercial Court in Marion County. The cities of Indianapolis, Evansville, Valparaiso…
We all know that pro wrestling is not a sport in the sense that boxing is. Pro wrestling presents as a genuine struggle between wrestlers for victory, but it does so with a complicit nod to …
We are at the point where real differences between populations can be scientifically engineered, we face a new challenge. As gene-altered or AI-assisted humans emerge, how can we preserve th…
A viral video has surfaced of a woman confronting Brazilian artist Romero Britto at a busy gallery and shattering one of his sculptures in front of him as he fumbles to retrieve the work. Sh…
He died recently at the age of 103 and his legacy is profound. "Bentley's legacy in the theater as a pathbreaker is profound. By shining a critical light on the American stage, he exposed th…