Sep 11 Retweets can earn prison time in China In China, internet users who post "false information that is defamatory or harms the national interest" can face prison time up to 3 years, if their post is viewed 5,000 times or retweeted 500 times, according to new guidelines… Continue reading
Sep 11 Watch Some Parents of Adopted Children Turn to Online Networks, Triggering Problems Parents Turn to Underground Online Networks to Give Away Foreign Adoptees… Continue watching
Sep 11 Priestly celibacy, a Catholic "tradition" Vatican's new Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, told a Venezuelan newspaper that priestly celibacy "is not a church dogma," but rather "a church tradition." These comments have raised eyebrows in the Catholic community. But the National Catholic Reporter… Continue reading
Sep 11 The NewsHour is LIVE! By News Desk It's 6 p.m. EDT -- the PBS NewsHour is live! Join co-anchors Gwen Ifill and Judy Woodruff as they talk to former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinksi, Senator John McCain, and other guests during tonight's show. Watch us live… Continue reading
Sep 11 The Fixable Crisis of Traffic Fatalities The following is a part of the Roads Kill Project of the Pulitzer Center. This Saturday on NewsHour Weekend, we look at recent changes to drunken-driving laws in British Columbia that have led to a roughly 50… Continue reading
Sep 11 #Iwastheonly girl in my school who wore a headscarf .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } NPR's CodeSwitch, a blog that… Continue reading
Sep 11 How do you decide who to trust to deliver your news? This week's #NewsHourChats is about the changing news industry. What do these changes say about the future of journalism? What do you look for in news coverage? How do you decide who to trust? Weigh in on those and… Continue reading
Sep 11 Alternative college ratings rank bang-for-buck education Photo by Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images. In response to U.S. News and World Report's famous college ranking, Washington Monthly puts out its own College Guide and Rankings issue that measures factors such as the graduation rate of low-income… Continue reading
Sep 11 A look at the man behind the college rankings The release of U.S. News and World Report's 2014 college rankings Tuesday unleashed the usual obsessing. The Chronicle of Higher Education cleanly summarizes some of the methodological changes in this year's rankings, which included decreasing the weight… Continue reading
Sep 11 #Remembering 9/11: The homepage of The New York Times on Sept. 11, 2001 Twitter: Before everything changed, this was the @nytimes homepage we woke up to on morning of 9/11. http://t.co/YFeofRiUDs pic.twitter.com/oUgIZGMTe0— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) September 11, 2013… Continue reading