Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Read our research on:
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story Overnight, the Senate approved about $9 billion in cuts to federal spending, including over $1 billion in funding cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (which funds NPR and PBS stations). The legislation […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story In the wake of President Donald Trump’s 2024 election victory, Democrats and left-leaning influencers are grappling with the changing digital media ecosystem and its role in the election outcome. A recent Pew Research Center study of […]
☀️ Happy Thursday! The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information. Sign up here! In today’s email: 🔥 Featured story On Monday, The Associated Press announced it is offering buyouts to a number of its U.S.-based journalists as it pivots away from print journalism and shifts its focus to visual journalism and developing new revenue sources. Meanwhile, the organization […]
☀️ 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 Multiple Trump administration officials criticized the news media in the past week for their coverage of the ongoing war in Iran. This includes Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr, who warned he would revoke broadcasters’ licenses if they do […]
☀️ 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 […]