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Piers Morgan and Rupert Murdoch — a match made in, well, somewhere

Morgan’s bombastic and trolling style should fit right in with Murdoch’s outfit and will likely have lots of followers.

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How news organizations used automated news to cover COVID-19

As the virus spread across the world, governments and health authorities made a considerable amount of open-source data available to the public.

A health worker prepares Pfizer vaccines during the national COVID-19 vaccination campaign in Pamplona, northern Spain, on Sept. 2, 2021. In a statement Monday Sept. 6, 2021, the European Medicines Agency says it has started an expedited evaluation on whether to recommend a booster dose of the coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer-BioNTech. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos, File)

Pfizer and Moderna press for booster shots. Will the FDA’s decision come today?

Plus, the data Biden's team leans on to favor boosters, NIH to study long-haul COVID, food costs are increasing, and more.

A health worker shows a the Moderna vaccine for COVID-19, donated by the U.S. government, at a health center in Quilmes Argentina, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Gustavo Garello)

If you’ve been vaccinated, what are the odds of a breakthrough COVID infection?

A recent CDC report contains data showing that the odds of a breakthrough might be around 1-in-5,000 a week.

From the Marshfield (Wisconsin) News-Herald, Oct. 7, 2012, via newspapers.com.

People need dependable local news for a lot of reasons. One? Call it ‘the big pumpkin theory.’

“It all comes back to the community part of community journalism.”

IFCN and Facebook will award $800K to fact-checkers fighting climate misinformation

Eligible applicants can receive up to $100,000 for innovative solutions to refute false claims about the environment.

United States gymnasts from left, Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, Aly Raisman and Maggie Nichols, arrive to testify during a Senate Judiciary hearing about the Inspector General's report on the FBI's handling of the Larry Nassar investigation on Capitol Hill on Wednesday. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

The Nassar case is a horrific story that the media needs to continue covering

The raw truth these gymnasts are sharing — and how the FBI failed them — should compel all of us to listen.

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