Hi, my name is Mathew Ingram. I write about digital media for the Columbia Journalism Review, and this is a newsletter that is made up of links I've either found on Twitter or Facebook, or that have been shared by my social network. Hope you enjoy it!
The Washington Post
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Philip Rucker, Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey, Amy Gardner
– Nov 28, 2020, 4:08 PM
However cleareyed that Trump's aides may have been about his loss to President-elect Joe Biden, many of them nonetheless indulged their boss and encouraged him to keep fighting with legal appeals. They were “happy to scratch his…
The New York Times
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Walt Bogdanich
– Nov 27, 2020, 2:50 PM
When Purdue Pharma agreed last month to plead guilty to criminal charges involving OxyContin, the Justice Department noted the role an unidentified consulting company had played in driving sales of the addictive painkiller even as public outrage…
The New York Times
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Eric Lipton
– Nov 28, 2020, 8:01 AM
WASHINGTON — One firm helps companies navigate global risks and the political and procedural ins and outs of Washington. The other is an investment fund with a particular interest in military contractors. But the consulting firm, WestExec…
The New York Times
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Bryan Pietsch
– Nov 28, 2020, 7:23 PM
As mysteriously as it arrived, a metal monolith that was discovered last week by Utah public safety workers is now gone, officials said on Saturday. The three-sided metal structure was removed on Friday evening “by an unknown party”…
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
– Nov 28, 2020, 5:00 AM
But on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, Raffensperger was relaxed and smiling at his home in the Atlanta suburbs. The night before, Trump had tweeted about him, accusing him of hiding tens of thousands of illegal votes and asking, “Why is…
