How Seattle’s The Stranger Became a Progressive Kingmaker

Endorsements from The Stranger have become a must-have for some politicians, who know to bring snacks to their meetings with the paper’s writers.

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Kansas County Agrees to Pay $3 Million Over Police Raid of Newspaper

The search of The Marion County Record’s office in 2023 touched off a national conversation about press freedom.

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Who Wrote That Headline? Maybe a Robot.

A.I. has taken newsrooms by storm, setting off industrywide soul-searching about its potential and pitfalls.

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The Times’s Profit Jumps With 460,000 More Subscribers

The Times now has 12.33 million total subscribers to all of its products. It has said it is aiming for 15 million by the end of 2027.

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Gannett Changes Name to USA Today Co.

The company, which publishes more than 200 local newspapers across 42 states, is adopting the name of its flagship publication.

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Indiana University Lifts Ban on Printing News in College Newspaper

The university faced fierce criticism after it fired the director of student media and said that news coverage could be published only online.

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Why Thousands of Trees and Shrubs Are Coming to Prospect Park

After a wildfire last year, the park is regreening. This fall has been dry, though not as dry as last year when the blaze hit the Ravine.

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New York Survived Its 1975 Crisis. Will Trump Push It Back to the Brink?

The Daily News headline “Ford to City: Drop Dead” stunned the city at a time of budgetary peril. New York’s finances are far stronger today, but antagonism from Washington poses a fresh risk.

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50 Years Ago, My Father Wrote the Headline ‘Ford to City: Drop Dead’

It’s rare that a headline outlasts the person who wrote it. But long after my father’s death, “Ford to City: Drop Dead” still reverberates.

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Francisco Pinto Balsemão, 88, Dies; Portuguese Prime Minister and Press Champion

In the wake of a revolution, he helped found a leading political party and tried to conciliate warring left and right factions, although his success was limited.

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