Media Bits and Bytes – May 13, 2025
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How to win a Pulitzer
How to win a Pulitzer
How to win a Pulitzer
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As Bangladesh’s Factories Turn to Surveillance and Automation, Garment Workers Feel the Pressure
rest of world
Facing competition from Vietnam and Cambodia, factories are using automation and surveillance to ramp up production and cut labor costs.
Media Bits and Bytes – August 20, 2024
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What's ahead for Google?
Media Bits and Bytes – January 24, 2023
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Remembering a pathbreaker for free media
Friday Nite Videos | May 27, 2022
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A Simple Solution: Reduce the Number of Guns. Oye Como Va ft. Carlos Santana & Cindy Blackman Santana. Jacinda Ardern at Harvard: Gun Control and Democracy. How Your Phone Knows If You’re Getting an Abortion. The Hidden History of “Hand Talk.”
How Your Phone Knows If You’re Getting an Abortion
Roe vs. Wade is under threat. And if abortion is made illegal, people seeking to end their pregnancies will face an adversary that didn’t exist in 1973: mountains of data that can be used to track them.
Friday Nite Videos | April 15, 2022
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Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: CPAC and the Hungarian Right. Jon Batiste | Freedom.
Women of the White Buffalo | Movie. John Oliver | Data Brokers. Elon Musk's Mission: Make Earth Really Bad.
Data Brokers
John Oliver discusses how much data brokers know about us, what they’re doing with our personal information, and one….unusual way to change privacy laws.
Media Bits and Bytes - October 5, 2021
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New spyware to worry about, Ozy Media collapses, and some democratic solutions to the corporate stranglehold on media
The Fourth Amendment in the Digital Age
The Supreme Court’s Carpenter ruling can shape privacy protections for new technologies.
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