As the Turkish and Russian governments have worked to improve their historically frosty relationship, the Russian ambassador to Turkey was assassinated on Monday by a Turkish police officer. Gunman Mevlut Mert Altintas was killed in the aftermath. Ambassador Andrey Karlov was killed at an Ankara art gallery where he was invited […]
MSNBC has cancelled Live with Thomas Roberts, its 1 P.M. weekday news program. Roberts had been hosting the two hour news block since MSNBC reshuffled its dayside to include more traditional news programs. The New York Post’s Page Six first reported the news. Roberts confirmed the news, writing on Facebook, […]
Facebook announced on Thursday a series of changes designed to combat the spread of fake news on the social media platform. However, Facebook is shifting the actual fact-checking work of what is fake news and what is not to partners who have signed onto Ponyter’s International Fact-Checking Network. Signatories include […]
The New York Times announced on Monday its six member White House correspondents team who will all cover the Trump White House. Fittingly, all six start on January 20, Inauguration Day. Mark Landler, Mike Shear, Julie Davis, and Maggie Haberman will move to the White House beat from their current positions. […]
Lydia Polgreen of the New York Times was named the editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post on Friday. Polgreen will be only the second editor-in-chief for the Huffington Post, after founder Arianna Huffington. Huffington left the Huffington Post in order to focus on her latest health and wellness venture, Thrive Global. […]
