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Jan 13, 2025 | 
cjr.org | Meghnad Bose
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In the wee hours of Tuesday morning, Silicon Valley time, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, announced sweeping changes to the company. “It’s time to get back to our roots around free expression,” he declared. Meta would loosen its filters, unleash more political content, and eliminate its third-party fact-checking program, starting in the United States.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
cjr.org | Meghnad Bose
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR‚Äôs daily newsletter. On September 5, 1972, armed men affiliated with the Palestinian militant group Black September took members of Israel’s Olympic team hostage in an apartment complex at the Olympic Village in Munich.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
votebeat.org | Jen Fifield |Alexander Shur |Jessica Huseman |Meghnad Bose
Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Michigan’s free newsletter here. Older voters were the most likely to take advantage of Michigan’s expanded early in-person voting option in the November general election. Nearly 1 in 3 early voters was age 60 or older, according to the Michigan Department of State, and more than half of early voters were at least 51 years old.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
votebeat.org | Jen Fifield |Alexander Shur |Jessica Huseman |Meghnad Bose
Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for Votebeat Arizona’s free newsletter here. Maricopa County’s new leadership will move immediately to commission an independent audit of the county’s election system, incoming supervisors announced at their first meeting Monday, but they promised that it will not be a repeat of the partisan, chaotic review of the county’s 2020 election results.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
tucsonsentinel.com | Meghnad Bose
Votebeat This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
votebeat.org | Meghnad Bose |Uzma Afreen
Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter to get the latest. Progressives determined to defeat Donald Trump but unsatisfied with Kamala Harris’s position on the war in Gaza were offered an 11th-hour voting option this year: In October, a group called Swap Your Vote began offering to match voters in politically “safe” states with those in swing states.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Meghnad Bose
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. On Monday evening, media figures gathered at the Sheraton Grand in London for the annual awards of the Foreign Press Association. Among the nominees for one of the categories, the Thomson Foundation Young Journalist of the Year, which recognizes reporters under the age of thirty, were two female Pakistani investigative journalists—and the eventual winner, an Afghan reporter, whose work is so dangerous that she couldn’t be identified at all.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Meghnad Bose
Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. Now that the smoke has cleared from Election Day, it appears that the polls and statistical models mostly got the story right. But if it doesnât quite feel that wayâthe race seemed to be a nail-biter, then Donald Trump won decisivelyâthat may have been a result of how the numbers were presented, and the conclusions that journalists (and news consumers) drew from the data.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
thequint.com | Meghnad Bose
“Do we want to put our foot down and show that we can swing an election or do we want to rubber stamp the party that has been funding our genocide in the name of avoiding Donald Trump?” Those were the words of Amer Zahr, a Palestinian-American law professor and comedian whom I met less than two weeks before the US presidential election.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Meghnad Bose
Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. Ahead of Election Day this fall, a federal appeals court in DC got America ready for the action, clearing the way for fully regulated political betting.
