Oct 23, 2020 | Featured, Our Stories
In late 2017, Facebook executives were briefed on major changes to the platform’s News Feed—the code that determines which of innumerable posts appear when a user views Facebook. The changes would reduce how much news people saw, and therefore decrease outlets’...
Oct 14, 2020 | The Indy Brief
October 9, 2020 The Park Center for Independent Media circulates the Indy Brief, a weekly selection of news stories from journalism outlets operating outside traditional corporate systems and news organizations. The Headlines Our Stories SAVE THE DATE:...
Oct 14, 2020 | From Indy Media
Eight years ago, twenty governments around the world commissioned a report on the potential death toll of climate change if it proceeds unmitigated. The study examined all of the ways that climate change can result in mass fatalities, from hunger to heat and...
Oct 14, 2020 | From Indy Media
Courtenay Brown spends her day making grocery runs for others in a football-field-sized maze of narrow aisles and refrigerated enclaves. At the Amazon Fresh unit in a Newark, New Jersey fulfillment center, she works on the outbound ship dock,...
Oct 14, 2020 | From Indy Media
On May 28, Chris Crane, the president and CEO of Fortune 100 energy provider Exelon sent a message to his employees. “Dear Colleagues,” it began. “During these extraordinary times, when many parts of our lives have changed, it’s more...
