Fox News and Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo. (Courtesy: Fox News)

President Trump’s interview is an embarrassing low mark for him, Fox News and, especially, interviewer Maria Bartiromo

Once a respected journalist and top business reporter, Bartiromo has seemingly sold her journalistic soul to become a sycophant for President Trump.
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New White House press secretary Jen Psaki. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

President-elect Joe Biden has picked a historic communications staff

All of the senior staffers in the communications department will be women — believed to be a first among a White House administration.
Initial doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine have been flown into the United States from Belgium ahead of a planned nationwide rollout in December. (zz/STRF/STAR MAX/IPx)

The CDC will meet this week to discuss who will be first to be vaccinated

Plus, the countries that'll get vaccines first, the Oxford-AstraZeneca controversy explained, New York schools are ditching hybrid learning, and more.
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It’s time to hold editors accountable for harassed news workers

If you are an editor, publisher or general manager, what, if anything, do you do when employees, especially women, are harassed online?
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Will journalists be considered front-line workers for COVID-19 vaccines?

Plus, what 635 epidemiologists plan to do for Thanksgiving, 162 state legislators have had COVID-19, and more.
Volunteers collect frozen turkeys at Operation Blessing in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to create Thanksgiving food baskets for low-income residents in this file photo. (Courtesy of Rich Beauchesne/Seacoastonline)

How local journalists are covering a Thanksgiving drastically impacted by COVID-19

Thanksgiving doesn’t look the same across America this year. Neither does the local news coverage.
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Journalists pushed for progress, stood up to bullies and made sense of a pandemic. Here’s what we’re thankful for this year.

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