Read next: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution will discontinue its daily print edition and go to a weekend print edition, likely within the next year. David Miller, executive vice president of National Geographic Media, said in a memo that the magazine is “realigning key departments to help deepen engagement with our readers while also nurturing existing business models and developing new lines of revenue.” The cuts come three months after the appointment of a new editor in chief, Nathan Lump, who is only the 11th person to serve as the magazine’s editor since its founding. The shocking cuts have been referred to as the “Red Wedding” by staffers. The layoffs include masthead names like senior executive editor Indira Lakshmanan and editors in charge of topics like science, travel, and the environment. National Geographic laid off six top editors, an unprecedented move for the magazine that has had stable editorial leadership since its launch in 1888. National Geographic magazine lays off six of its top editors Next up: Social media app Parler has returned to the Google Play Store more than a year after being removed. Financial terms of the deal, which closed last month, were not disclosed. Yahoo hopes integrating The Factual’s technology into Yahoo News will build trust and engagement for the brand. Based on those criteria, it assigns each article a score and presents it to the reader.
The Factual uses AI to rank articles based on four criteria: site quality, author expertise, article tone (level of opinion), and quality of sources. Yahoo has its own criteria for adding syndication partners, but labels from The Factual will help readers “make their own informed decisions about what they’re reading,” Yahoo president and general manager Matt Sanchez says. Yahoo has acquired The Factual, a company that uses algorithms to rate the credibility of news sources.
Yahoo buys The Factual to add news credibility ratings The high school scene, the shifting statements to police, the prejudices, the sketchy alibis, the scant forensic evidence - all of it leads back to the most basic questions: How can you know a person’s character? How can you tell what they’re capable of? In Season One of Serial, she looks for answers.Welcome to Media Insider, PR Newswire’s roundup of media news stories from the week.
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She discovered that the trial covered up a far more complicated story than the jury – or the public – ever got to hear. Sarah Koenig sorted through thousands of documents, listened to trial testimony and police interrogations, and talked to everyone she could find who remembered what happened between Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee.
Some people believe he’s telling the truth. But Adnan has always maintained he had nothing to do with Hae’s death. The case against him was largely based on the story of one witness, Adnan’s friend Jay, who testified that he helped Adnan bury Hae's body. Her 17-year-old ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was arrested for the crime, and within a year, he was sentenced to life in prison. A high-school senior named Hae Min Lee disappeared one day after school in 1999, in Baltimore County, Maryland. A month later, her body was found in a city park.