Google's role in the local news ecosystem is becoming complicated as some newsrooms still see it as a plagiarist, while others benefit from free Google training.
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On a pure dollars-and-cents level, the company is incentivized to do as little as possible about meeting civil rights groups' demands.
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The Free Press and American democracy have been intertwined since the nation's founding.
Voice of America becomes the Voice of Trump | Editorial
Congress should intervene in President Donald Trump's disruption of the U.S. Global Media Agency.
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Instead of tapping experts in the medical and scientific community - many of whom are on the government payroll - Trump has chosen to educate...
Trump should denounce, not imitate, assault on press freedom in the Philippines | Margaret Sullivan / Syndicated columnist
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When the police, too, buy into the lie that the media are the enemies of the people, they are making clear that they consider the...
Four Washington newspapers will become even less local | Dean Miller / Free Press editor
Four of Washington’s leading daily papers are at the mercy of the winners of next month’s bankruptcy auction, which will almost certainly mean control will...
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