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WASHINGTON — A multigenerational audience joined Mariangela Zappia, ambassador of Italy to the United States, at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, D.C., Tuesday night for a discussion of Gen Z news and social media trends. “They only know a world that is hyperconnected,” Zappia said... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department announced a policy change late last month intended to protect the news media from the long arms of the law. The new policy bans nearly all subpoenas, search warrants and other legal tactics against journalists while they are gathering the news.... Read More

CHICAGO — This week’s special issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association offers a lengthy and often sobering dissertation on the already substantial impact of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade this past June, and with it constitutional protections to... Read More

WASHINGTON — You always can tell when the “rock stars” arrive at any given event.  In this case, the first indication was the growing murmur outside the meeting rooms on the Independence level of the Grand Hyatt hotel. Almost imperceptible at first to the journalists, college... Read More

NEW YORK — Like a lot of subjects, the conversation around faith and community is a lot harder today than it was in the not-so-distant past. In the bygone, pre-internet age, when local papers thrived, there was no question that faith and religion were going to... Read More

PHILADELPHIA — From a purely media fanboy perspective, it was the kind of session one circles on an agenda weeks before the event. Scheduled to join SiriusXM POTUS channel host Michael Smerconish on stage for an hour at Friday’s Un-Convention at the National Constitution Center in... Read More