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Monica Schipper/Getty Images The New York Times is readying a newsletter push as Substack comes after top journalists. Substack offered opinion writer Liz Bruenig a $200,000 advance, double her Times salary. The Times told staffers in a memo Friday that outside paid newsletters wouldnt likely be approved. When the tech writer Charlie Warzel told the New York Times opinion section that he was leaving to start a newsletter on Substack, he and his editors discussed ho...

The Improvement Association, Chapter Four: ‘Let Them Pull the Red Wagon’ Everyone hopes everyone else is learning a lesson. They aren’t.Reported by Zoe Chace; produced by Nancy Updike, with help from Amy Pedulla; edited by Julie Snyder, Sarah Koenig, Neil Drumming and Ira Glass; original score by Kwame Brandt-Pierce; and sound design and mix by Phoebe Wang. transcript bars -0:00 Listen and follow The Improvement Association. From the makers of Serial: The Improvement Association....

[ Music] abu huzayfah: And the guy cried—was crying and screaming. He did not die after the first time. The second time or so, he probably just slouched over. That was— rukmini callimachi: How hard is it to put a knife into somebody? abu huzayfah: It’s hard. I had to stab him multiple times. In Chapter Five of New York Times, a young Canadian named Shehroze Chaudhry explains how he came to stab a man in the heart on behalf of the Islamic State. Back in 2014, Chaudhry, who went by the no...

2021 Media Moves: Choire Sicha’s New Role at The New York Times and More Womens Wear Daily (WWD) 1 hr ago Kathryn Hopkins Friday April 16 Choire Sicha’s new role Choire Sicha is stepping down as editor of The New York Times’ Styles desk after nearly four years to take on a new role in the group’s newsletter division. The Times just announced that Sicha will become a senior editor “charged with a project to help expand our newsletter portfolio” alongside Sam Dolnick...

From Serial: The Improvement Association A true story about election fraud.Reported by Zoe Chace; produced by Nancy Updike, with help from Amy Pedulla; edited by Julie Snyder, Sarah Koenig, Neil Drumming and Ira Glass; original score by Kwame Brandt-Pierce; and sound design and mix by Phoebe Wang. transcript bars -0:00 Listen and follow The Improvement Association. From the makers of Serial: The Improvement Association. In this five-part audio series, join the reporter Zoe Chace as she travels ...

40 Acres and a Movie Disney can’t change its problematic past. But can it make a new future with Marvel? transcript -0:00 April 8, 2021, 4:01 p.m. ET Disney owns a piece of every living person’s childhood. Now it owns Marvel Studios, too. The co-hosts Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris look at depictions of racist tropes and stereotypes in Disney’s ever-expanding catalog. The company has made recent attempts to atone for its past. But can it move forward without repeating the same mistakes? ...

Asian-Americans’ Politics, Pandemic Wilderness Explorers and O.J. Simpson’s Twitter Account: The Week in Narrated Articles Five articles from around The Times, narrated just for you. Volunteers assembled campaign signs at an Asian Pacific Americans for Trump field office in Orlando, Fla., in September.Credit...Alexander Drago/Reuters April 9, 2021, 7:00 a.m. ET This weekend, have a listen to a collection of narrated articles from around The New York Times, read aloud by the reporters ...

New & Noteworthy, From Jazz-Age Cairo to a Catholic Memoir Published March 16, 2021Updated March 21, 2021 Recent titles of interest: ZABOR, or The Psalms, by Kamel Daoud. Translated by Emma Ramadan. (Other Press, paper, $17.99.) An ode to storytelling with shades of Scheherazade, this novel by the author of “The Meursault Investigation” features a hero convinced that his journal writing keeps those he loves alive. THE PHONE BOOTH AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, by Laura Imai Messina. Translated b...

How to watch the Framing Britney Spears documentary in the UAE The highly-anticipated documentary has been the talk of the showbiz world… If you were growing up in the nineties and noughties, chances are you were a huge fan of pop star Britney Spears, and even if you weren’t, we bet you’d heard of her. The singer, famous for tracks such as Baby One More Time and You Drive Me Crazy, is currently the focus on a much-hyped documentary, named ‘Framing Britney Spears’, which looks at ...

Framing Britney Spears Sells Globally For Red Arrow Studios International Naman Ramachandran, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The documentary shines a light on the Queen of Pop’s court battle for control of her estate and also re-examines the media’s handling of her life and career. Since its early February debut, the film has been generating considerable attention around the world. More from Variety International sales include Sky (U.K. & Ireland), Nine (Australia), Crave (Canada), Three...