Canadian news services will no longer be available via Google, Meta search and other search engines. Their web sites will vanish from search results after Canada passes law requiring search engines pay fees to Canadian news publishers merely for linking to them.
National Geographic magazine lays off all remaining staffers. Will now hire freelancers on contract basis.
Source: Another one: Why do science and health reporters lack backgrounds in their subject? – Social Panic Another one: Amy Brady, Ph.D. is a “contributing editor” for Scientific American and describes herself as an “Environmental Writer”. She has a PhD in English, a Masters in English, and a Diplome d’etudes en langue francaise, French. (Which means she studied in France.) She is “available for collaborations and talks worldwide” even though she’s down on cars and travel because “every mile” is…
Chicago hits an AQI of 228 and it’s big news. When we were between 400 and 625 for 9 days, it was a local story where we live. The threshold for something be news worthy is primarily location, apparently.
The publisher attributes the error of publishing the racist cartoon to – in so many words – that their editorial staff is incompetent.