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BIGSTOCK In 2017, Nandini Jammi helped launch a company called Sleeping Giants to pressure corporate advertisers into boycotting conservative media. With little more than a Twitter account, a Facebook group and a gift for incendiary rhetoric, the company reportedly prompted a range of corporations, from Pfizer to Walmart, to pull advertising from Fox News and other right-leaning outlets. Now, with boycotts becoming a fixed tactic, including secondary boycotts targeting states with new Republican-backed voting laws, Jammi has transitioned from aggressor to protector: advising companies on how ...

The High-Pressure Business of Selling Woke Corporate Armor In 2017, Nandini Jammi helped launch a company called Sleeping Giants to pressure corporate advertisers into boycotting conservative media. With little more than a Twitter account, a Facebook group and a gift for incendiary rhetoric, the company reportedly prompted a range of corporations, from Pfizer to Walmart, to pull advertising from Fox News and other right-leaning outlets. Now, with boycotts becoming a fixed tactic, including secondary boycotts targeting states with new Republican-backed voting laws, Jammi has transitioned from ...

Published April 29, 2021 at 11:19 PM PDT ADNAN ABIDI/REUTERS X90166 A patient, wearing an oxygen mask, sits outside Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narayan Hospital (LNJP), one of India's largest facilities for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) patients only, in New Delhi, India, On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we are discussing coverage of COVID's deadly surge in India. The country's official death toll has passed the 200,000 mark, but medical officials say that number bay be five to 10 times higher. India ranks second in the world after the US for the total number of cases, ...

Published April 8, 2021 at 10:46 PM PDT International Consortium of Investigative Journalists / On this edition of Your Call’s Media Roundtable, we are marking the 5th anniversary of the Panama Papers. In 2016, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and more than 100 media partners around the globe began publishing an investigation exposing the secrets of the offshore finance industry and how it enabled corrupt politicians and the rich to hide their money and evade paying taxes. Half a decade later, what has changed as the result of the Panama Papers’ revelati...

KUALA LUMPUR (April 7): Moody's said its 2021 GDP growth forecast of 6% for Malaysia could see further upside if the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme roll-out proceeds faster than anticipated. Its sovereign risk group analyst Christian Fang said Moody's baseline assumption is in line with the government's announcements. Malaysia has said it hopes to have between 70% and 80% of the nation's 32 million people vaccinated by 1Q2022 to achieve herd immunity. “A more optimistic scenario [is to reach the target] by the end of this year,” Fang told reporters at Moody’s Inside ASEAN Ser...