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There are many challenges facing shuttered newspapers that might have decades or even centuries of archival material to preserve. Photo: (Quinn Dombrowski/Flickr) 24 November 2021 | Andrew Egan | Tedium A slow death by a thousand paper cuts Newspapers and print journalism in general have been dying a slow death for more than 20 years…
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Photo: Logan Roy, the media titan played by Brian Cox. HBO/BSkyB 20 October 2021 | Jia Liu, Nader Atawnah, Rashid Zaman | The Conversation Will Logan Roy be brought down after his son Kendall publicly blamed him for covering up a litany of rapes and sexual assaults in Waystar Royco’s cruise-ships division? That’s the burning question…
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Although 10,000 steps a day are still good for you, new research shows that even 7,000 steps of even moderate speed are just as good. Photo: Kaspars Grinvalds/Shutterstock 09 September 2021 | Lindsay Bottoms | The Conversation Many of us have smartwatches or apps on our phones that count the number of steps we do….
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The letter, possibly signed by French Titanic passenger, was found in New Brunswick 08 May 2021 | Franca G. Mignacca | CBC (original link) On an April day in 1912, 12-year-old Mathilde Lefebvre boarded a ship with her mother and siblings, hoping to cross the Atlantic and reunite with the rest of their family in…
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