News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch has called on Facebook to pay “trusted” news publishers a fee for their content. “Facebook and Google have popularised scurrilous news sources through algorithms that are profitable for these platforms but inherently unreliable,” said Murdoch in a
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This culminating event will feature visual art, performance art, music and creative writing, as well as artist statements that explains their artwork and research on the subject matter. The artwork for this expedition has been largely funded by multiple donations through the Donors Choose Project. For more
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Founder and editor-in- chief of Broadsided Press, she lives on Cape Cod, works as a naturalist locally as well as on expedition ships in the high latitudes, and teaches creative writing at Brandeis University. Lyanda Lynn Haupt is a naturalist, eco-philosopher and speaker whose writing connects people
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Saunders is a graduate of the Syracuse University creative writing program in New York and was awarded a postgraduate Albert Schweitzer Fellowship in the Humanities at the State University of New York at Albany, under then-Schweitzer Chair, Toni Morrison. She lives in California with her husband,
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But what EverlyWell describes as one of its best-sellers — a test for food sensitivity — is of dubious medical value, according to experts interviewed by STAT. The $199 test promises to use a fingerprick's worth of blood to gauge whether a person's immune system is active against 96 common foods,
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What topics that will be covered are an introduction to the Irish language, Irish names and mythology, numbers and counting, the home and social life and Ogham and the first writing in Irish. Organisers say the course is aimed at anyone interested in Irish language and culture. The course is three hours
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Rights campaigners slammed as “appalling” Tuesday reports that dissident publisher Gui Minhai has been snatched again in mainland China, the latest person ensnared in Beijing's crackdown on civil society. Civil rights have come under increasing pressure since President Xi Jinping took power in
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Sweden has summoned the Chinese ambassador to the country to explain the latest apparent disappearance of a Hong Kong-based publisher who has Swedish citizenship. Gui Minhai – one of five booksellers who became a symbol of dissent in China when they went missing in 2015 – was snatched
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Aussie media mogul Rupert Murdoch has taken aim at Facebook over its latest News Feed change, telling the social media behemoth to start paying publishers a carriage fee. Murdoch said in a statement that if Facebook wants to recognise 'trusted' publishers, then it should pay them a carriage fee
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