Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Plus, how young Americans use TikTok for news and politics
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which started publishing in the late 1700s and won a Pulitzer Prize as recently as 2019, will shut down on May 3. Its unionized workers recently ended a more than three-year strike after […]
Plus, Americans’ top sources of political news ahead of the 2024 election
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Indamedia, a media group supportive of Hungarian president Viktor Orban, announced last Friday that it has acquired a handful of publications including Blikk, a popular tabloid with millions of monthly readers. Blikk’s editor-in-chief […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story President Donald Trump is suing The Wall Street Journal and its owners, including Rupert Murdoch, for $10 billion. The lawsuit accuses the news organization of defamation over a story it published last week reporting […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story The BBC apologized to President Donald Trump on Thursday for the way a 2024 documentary edited a speech he gave before the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Two top BBC executives had already resigned […]