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substack NOW Toronto / Nov 10, 2020

@parkdalelife has donated its account and following to the Parkdale Community Food Bank @parkdalefoodbank One of Parkdale Life's many raccoon posts. One of Toronto's most beloved Instagram accounts has handed over its handle. As of October 31, Parkdale Life can no longer be found at @parkdalelife.

substack Lexington Herald Leader / Nov 8, 2020

Jersey numbers are intended to help identify players. But they can take on a deeper, more personal meaning. After all, it's common to hear a player say my number is ... When playing with his AAU team, Kentucky freshman Terrence Clarke felt kinship with No. 6. "My birthday is Sept.

substack Rolling Stone / Nov 7, 2020

In the latest socially distanced episode of our and Katie Halper are joined by none other than newly-freelance journalist Useful Idiots podcast, hosts Matt Taibbi Glenn Greenwald. [ Editor's note: This episode was taped on November 5th, the Thursday after Election Night.]

substack The New Civil Rights Movement / Nov 7, 2020

President Donald Trump cannot win re-election. He's not really even trying. His "legal team" are D-list Fox News TV hosts and far right wing extremists. And in a class of his own, Rudy Giuliani, who reportedly was under DOJ investigation and has been palling around with an actual Russian agent.

substack Swarajya / Nov 7, 2020

The Chinese, of course, have been helped by a mixture of a chauvinist Hong Kong press and smart public relations: multinational CEOs, who are routinely picked up at Beijing airport by limousines and police outriders and feted on national television, have enjoyed the ego massage and stayed.

substack Newsweek / Nov 6, 2020

Nearly every mainstream media player predicted a clear and decisive defeat of Donald J. Trump leading up to-and all throughout-2020, as if the 2016 election had been a collective illusion. Few in media were willing to call out the obvious-that polling is based on faulty data and survey methodologies-because of their unabashed bias against the president.

substack CounterPunch / Nov 6, 2020

The 2020 presidential election is heading towards a worst-case scenario in terms of America's sclerotic constitutional system: a neck-and-neck race in the electoral college that will likely wind up before the Supreme Court. As of early morning on Wednesday November 4, Trump seemed to be closing in on victory.

substack Journalism.co.uk / Nov 5, 2020

Only a few months ago, the former LinkedIn international editor decided to start up her own podcasts, newsletter and a Patreon membership. She offers frank insight into being a 'one-woman band' and growing a niche audience From Substack newsletters to websites and podcasts, more and more journalists start up their own independent side-projects.

substack InsideHook / Nov 1, 2020

This week, politically-minded media observers witnessed a particularly unsettling scene: Glenn Greenwald publicly exiting The Intercept, the news site he had helped to found. Greenwald's resignation letter prompted a number of debates online, from questions of politics and transparency to discussions of the role of editors in high-profile writers' work.

substack TheStranger.com / Oct 30, 2020

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substack The Streetjournal / Oct 30, 2020

Glenn Greenwald on Thursday told Tucker Carlson the left supports a CIA set on destroying Donald Trump after earlier resigning from a website he co-founded, claiming editors 'censored' an article he wrote criticizing Joe Biden. The journalist, part of a team that won a Pulitzer for reports about government surveillance programs based on leaks by Edward Snowden, told...

substack Ithaca College The Ithacan / Oct 30, 2020

The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) held its 12th annual Izzy Award ceremony Oct. 28, honoring the works of the publication News Inside; the Puerto Rican organization Centro de Periodismo Investigativo (CPI, the Center for Investigative Journalism); and journalist Matt Taibbi. The Izzy Award was created to honor exceptional journalists and news outlets in independent media.