The Washington Post
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Geoffrey Gertz
– Nov 11, 2019, 2:00 AM
ByteDance entered the U.S. market by acquiring Musical.ly, a similar short video streaming app, in 2017 and then rebranding the product as TikTok. It is this acquisition that is now apparently under scrutiny. (Since CFIUS never publicly comments on…
A few years ago, Jason Rentfrow, a psychologist at the University of Cambridge, dug into a question that has captivated him for decades: Do different places have different personalities? Do people in Los Angeles, for instance, have measurably…
Brookings
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Clara Hendrickson
– Nov 18, 2019, 1:19 PM
Last week, shareholders at Gannett and GateHouse, the nation's two largest newspaper chains, voted to approve the merger of the two companies. Gannett, which publishes USA Today, owns just over 100 newspapers while New Media Enterprises, GateHouse…
The New Yorker
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Andrew Marantz
– Oct 31, 2019, 2:41 PM
For the first decade or so of his career, which also happened to be the first decade or so of his adult life, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and C.E.O. of Facebook, was able to move fast and break things—the news industry, for…
Audio will be available later today. For many people, turning on the tap or flushing the toilet is something we take for granted. But a report released Monday, called 'Closing the Water Access Gap in the United States,' shows that more than 2…
