Ed Fancher, a psychologist who started The Village Voice, the nationally known alternative weekly newspaper, with two partners in 1955 and remained its publisher until new ownership dismissed him 19 years later, died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan. He was 100. The death was confirmed by his daughter, Emily Fancher. In a city […]
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China Uses ‘Deceptive’ Methods to Sow Disinformation, U.S. Says
The State Department accused China on Thursday of using “deceptive and coercive methods” to shape the global information environment, by acquiring stakes in foreign newspapers and television networks, using major social media platforms to promote its views and exerting pressure on international organizations and media outlets to silence critics of Beijing. The accusations, detailed in […]
Read MoreIs Rupert Murdoch Really Moving on from Fox and News Corp?
The next chapter in the Murdoch family drama Rupert Murdoch’s bombshell retirement announcement on Thursday apparently ended some speculation over a real-life succession story that gripped the business world (and even inspired a must-watch fictional one). Murdoch, 92, will become chairman emeritus of Fox and News Corporation and named Lachlan, his elder son, as the […]
Read MoreHow Rupert Murdoch Built His Media Empire
Rupert Murdoch, the 92-year-old media tycoon who announced his retirement on Thursday, spent the past 70 years building a global media empire that gave him influence in journalism, politics and pop culture. Over dozens of acquisitions, Mr. Murdoch created a media conglomerate known for the rise of the modern tabloid and conservative commentary. His tenure […]
Read MoreRupert Murdoch Made the World Worse
Fox News, with Murdoch and Ailes at the helm, transformed news into a massive engine of confirmation bias. It was a safe space for Americans, most of them older and white, to have their fantasies affirmed: Immigrants were pouring into the country, crime was out of control, their way of life was under threat from […]
Read MoreJames Hoge, Who Led 2 Big City Tabloids, Dies at 87
James Hoge, who was a blue-blooded editor and publisher of blue-collar newspapers in Chicago and New York for a quarter-century and then long guided a leading journal on international relations, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 87. His son James Patrick Hoge confirmed the death, at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, but did not specify […]
Read MoreWall Street Journal Reporter Evan Gershkovich Appears in Russian Court
Evan Gershkovich, an American reporter for The Wall Street Journal whom Russia accuses of espionage, appeared on Tuesday at a hearing in a Moscow court to appeal a ruling that had extended his pretrial detention. He has been held in Russia since March. The ruling, in August, extended his detention by three months. He has […]
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