It’s a safe bet that much of what President Donald Trump described in two press availabilities at the White House alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, as well as a follow-up social media post, is not going to happen. The US almost certainly will not take a “long-term ownership position” in the Gaza Strip,…
Two weeks ago, United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a memo effecting President Trump’s executive order on reevaluating and realigning US Foreign Aid, effectively pausing all new foreign aid spending. The sweeping directive, that included a stop-work order for existing grants and contracts, took effect on Monday, 27 January – unleashing a storm…
Vox reader Jo Ní Coinnigh asks: Why do American politics (especially the presidential election) affect not just the US, but the entire world? On one level, the answer to this question is very simple: The United States is the most powerful country in the world. So what happens in Washington matters to the world in…
In his new role at WAN-IFRA, Svendsen will lead efforts to grow and engage the organisation’s global membership. He will focus on strengthening relationships with existing members, expanding the membership base, and enhancing engagement strategies to support the evolving needs of news publishers, digital media companies, and industry stakeholders. “I am honoured to join WAN-IFRA!…
By Douglas K. Smith What is not understood, however, by people in newsrooms, marketing, technology, ad sales, human resources, finance, and executive offices of news organisations is that politics also determines the sustainability of their jobs, livelihoods and aspirations. No. Not the negative politics of market democracies. Rather, organisational politics, a politics that traces back…
On Tuesday evening, President Donald Trump shocked the world with a proposal that was, even by his standards, totally out of the blue: that all Palestinians should be removed from Gaza so that the US could take it over as a territory. There was instant debate about whether Americans should take Trump at his word,…
This story was originally published in The Highlight, Vox’s member-exclusive magazine. To get early access to member-exclusive stories every month, join the Vox Membership program today. It has now been more than 15 years — though it might feel a lot longer — since then-President Barack Obama gave a landmark speech in Prague pledging that…
By Mirko Petricevic While top editors rightly focus on ensuring their publications survive into tomorrow, there’s no imminent deadline for the grassroots advocacy group Ink-stained Wretches. That’s because even if newsrooms beat back the existential threat posed by new technologies and a changing business model, the reprieve would likely last only until the next disruptor…
Amedia has some 800,000 subscribers across all of its titles in Norway. However, more than half of these subscribers – 405,000 – are over the age of 60. And 95,000 of them are older than 80, which is about the same as the total number of their subscribers young than 40. This is not a…
Hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, China’s Xi Jinping made a call to Russian President Vladimir Putin in which, according to the Chinese foreign ministry’s readout, the two leaders pledged to deepen their “strategic coordination” and “practical cooperation” and “firmly support each other.” Just a few days earlier on January 17, Putin…