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In this April 1, 2020, photo, a news crew wearing personal protective equipment due to COVID-19 concerns reports outside the Chase Center that will become a makeshift hospital at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in the Queens borough of New York. People desperate for information are more reliant than ever on local media as the coronavirus spreads across the U.S. But newspapers, magazines and digital publishers are feeling the pressure as advertising craters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

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The Star Tribune headquarters building (Ken Wolter/Shutterstock)

How two local newsrooms are sewing diversity into the fabric of their organizations

The Star Tribune in Minneapolis and the San Antonio Express-News are approaching diversity in sustainable new ways.

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President Donald Trump speaks at a news conference on Monday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

In one press conference, President Trump just revealed the rest of his campaign strategy

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When journalism and Silicon Valley collide

The media and tech industries have long battled over economics. But now they’re increasingly finding fault in the other’s values.

Democrats and Republicans both want to end ‘surprise medical billing.’ So what’s the delay?

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The number of current COVID-19 deaths in the United States is projected onto the Trump International Hotel during the second night of the Republican National Convention in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Days later, President Donald Trump retweeted multiple posts that falsely claimed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decreased the number of U.S. coronavirus deaths to 9,210. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

No, the CDC did not ‘quietly adjust’ U.S. coronavirus deaths from 153,504 to 9,210

Social posts have misconstrued data from the CDC and claimed the deaths were from other causes. President Trump retweeted one such false claim.

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