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Layoffs are leaving a void where sports journalists used to tell their stories

7:36am January 31, 2024

Sports Illustrated recently announced layoffs for nearly all of its journalists. NPR's A Martinez talks to Dave Zirin, of The Nation, about how similar layoffs are leaving a void for sports fans.

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A photo illustration created last July shows an advertisement to create AI girls reflected in a public service announcement issued by the FBI regarding malicious actors manipulating photos and videos to create explicit content and sextortion schemes. A boom in deepfake porn is outpacing U.S. and European efforts to regulate the technology.

National

Deepfakes exploiting Taylor Swift images exemplify a scourge with little oversight

6:01pm January 26, 2024

by Bill Chappell

Bogus pornographic images purporting to show pop superstar Taylor Swift have emerged on social media, highlighting a growing challenge to privacy rights.

NPR's incoming CEO, Katherine Maher, speaking at Web Summit last fall. She briefly led that organization after its founder resigned following comments he made about Israel and Gaza.

NPR names tech executive Katherine Maher to lead in turbulent era

5:18pm January 24, 2024

by David Folkenflik

Incoming NPR CEO Katherine Maher has a background in tech and world affairs. She says the network's mission fits neatly with her advocacy of the free flow of information in expanding democracy.

Unionized staff picket outside the Condé Nast offices in New York on Jan. 23. The company is merging the popular digital music publication Pitchfork with the men's magazine GQ, which has triggered anger over the resulting layoffs and concern for the outlet's future.

With Pitchfork in peril, a word on the purpose of music journalism

4:17pm January 24, 2024

by Ann Powers

At its best, the influential online music pub — which Condé Nast announced last week will be folded into GQ — created a rare and precious space to slow down, pay attention and really listen.

Bill Ackman uses relentless boardroom tactics in war against Ivy Leagues and news

5:05pm January 23, 2024

by David Gura

Hedge fund boss Bill Ackman has waged battles in corporate boardrooms. He writes lengthy public letters and digs in. Now, he's using those same tactics in wars with Ivy League schools and the media.

National

A look at the wave of layoffs hitting the news industry

4:42pm January 23, 2024

by David Folkenflik

The Los Angeles Times has laid off nearly a quarter of its newsroom — and there have been deep job cuts at Time magazine and National Geographic as well.

Charles Osgood, longtime CBS host on TV and radio, has died at 91

4:08pm January 23, 2024

by The Associated Press

Osgood, who anchored CBS Sunday Morning for more than two decades and hosted the long-running radio program The Osgood File, died Tuesday home in New Jersey. The cause was dementia, his family said.

Sports

After recent layoffs, the future of Sports Illustrated is uncertain

7:59am January 21, 2024

by Ayesha Rascoe

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Washington Post reporter Ben Strauss about recent layoffs at Sports Illustrated and the future of the revered magazine.

A George Mason University fan holds up the cover of a Sports Illustrated magazine at a send-off for the university's team on March 29, 2006, in Fairfax, Virginia. The union representing the magazine's staff said that SI's publisher plans to cut "a significant number, possibly all" of its union-represented staff.

Sports

'Sports Illustrated' to lay off most of its staff amid severed licensing deal

9:02pm January 19, 2024

by Emma Bowman

The union representing the magazine's staff said that SI's publisher plans to cut "a significant number, possibly all" of its union-represented staff.

National

'Sports Illustrated' faces uncertain future

5:48pm January 19, 2024

Sports Illustrated has announced that it's laying off a significant amount — if not all — of the News Guild-represented workers on Friday, prompting responses from the union.

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