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The Briefing ☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story NPR on Tuesday posted and retracted a story that incorrectly reported Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring. Veteran journalist Nina Totenberg, who wrote the article, said she mistakenly believed a court announcement about upcoming retirements referred to Alito. The story was published for only a few […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley was fired on Tuesday, a day after a heated meeting in which Pelley criticized CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, accused her of “murdering” the program, and questioned the qualifications of newly […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Political money is flowing to social media influencers, including in California’s gubernatorial race. Candidates like billionaire Tom Steyer are paying creators to promote their messages online, and recent campaign finance disclosures have revealed […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Google is making major changes to its search experience. Instead of offering the familiar list of links that has existed for decades, queries will sometimes place users into an interactive AI-powered interface where […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story A hantavirus outbreak that recently caused multiple deaths on a cruise ship has captured widespread media attention, even as public health officials say it’s extremely unlikely the virus will spread broadly. This discrepancy […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The Washington Post was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for public service this week for its reporting on the Trump administration’s reorganizing of the federal government. Much of this reporting was led by Hannah […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The Federal Communications Commission has ordered an early review of ABC’s broadcast licenses, citing the network’s diversity, equity and inclusion policies. The move also follows criticism of ABC’s late-night host Jimmy Kimmel by […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story FBI Director Kash Patel filed a defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic and reporter Sarah Fitzpatrick earlier this week, seeking $250 million in damages. The magazine published an article by Fitzpatrick about Patel’s job […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story After unseating Viktor Orbán as Hungary’s prime minister with an election victory this week, Péter Magyar vowed to suspend the country’s state-run media as part of wider anti-corruption efforts. Orbán’s right-wing Fidesz party […]