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Why the nonprofit Buzzards Bay Coalition took over the South Coast Almanac lifestyle magazine
“They view our region the same way Buzzards Bay Coalition always did, and the way that I do,” Rasmussen said.
New Consumer Safeguards Under British Columbia's Business Practices And Consumer Protection Act
Siskinds LLP are most popular: within Media, Telecoms, IT, Entertainment, International Law, Food, Drugs, Healthcare and Life Sciences topic(s) with Senior Company Executives, HR and Inhouse Counsel in Canada with readers working within the Insurance, Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals & BioTech industries On March 31, 2025, British Columbia's Bill 4 received Royal Assent, introducing several changes to the province's Business Practices and Consumer Protection Act (the Act).
When every word counts, ditch the corporate speak
In this period of continuous and overlapping crises — geopolitics, supply chain uncertainty, systems failures, social unrest — many issues management teams and their agency partners have struggled to keep up with scenario planning for so many risks and variables.
Judge in Harvard funding lawsuit calls Trump administration’s arguments ‘a bit mind-boggling’ - The Boston Globe
The Trump administration’s legal case for cutting nearly $3 billion in federal aid to Harvard University was met with skepticism on Monday from a federal judge who described the government’s arguments as “a bit mind-boggling” during a high-stakes hearing in Boston. Harvard sued the Trump administration over the cuts in April, and lawyers for both the university and the government appeared in US District Court to argue that Judge Allison D.
Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record
Every biography begins with a unique set of constraints: there are only so many knowledgeable sources, only so much already written about a subject, only so many boxes in the archive. Anything beyond those constraints becomes fiction. At least, that’s what I thought when I set out to write I Am Here You Are Not I Love You, a biography of the artists Andrew Topolski and Cindy Suffoletto, my uncle and aunt.
How an imaginary roadtrip through Maine drove real traffic to Bowdoin’s student radio station
Share “I quickly pulled up our servers’ logs and on the graph, everything is spiked,” Daugherty said, adding that the station’s listeners had jumped 100 times the normal audience. He had to tweak the station’s servers, which had reached maximum capacity.
Press Freedom United
We, the undersigned, write to express our deep concern over the escalating hostility toward the free press under the current executive and legislative leadership in Washington, DC. A series of actions have undermined the foundational principles of press freedom, threatening the First Amendment and the public’s right to information. These alarming developments are not just attacks on individual journalists or news organizations—they are direct assaults on democracy itself.
How Trump Avoided the Mainstream Media - and Won the Presidency
How Trump Avoided the Mainstream Media — and Won the Presidency Published November 12, 2024 Just hours before officially clinching a second term in the White House, Donald Trump ceded his victory speech podium to Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO Dana White, who praised the president-elect before quickly pivoting to deliver thanks. He didn’t choose to first thank volunteers, campaign workers, or even the 74 million-plus voters who cast ballots for Trump.
Who will win in the 2024 elections? If Vermont Public has its way, the voters.
Share The effort, called the “Citizens Agenda,” is a departure from the conventional political reporting that Kinzel has made a career on, spending days calling politicians, advocates, and experts. But in August he and Patterson, the outlet’s executive editor, set up a table outside of Montpelier’s Federal Building with a sign that asked passersby: “What do you love about Montpelier?” Most pedestrians declined to stop. But those that did made an impression.
Hearst journalists in Connecticut announce they’re starting a union
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The Author and the Eulogist: On Love and Death in Nonfiction
Word had gotten around that tomorrow, I would give my uncle Dave’s eulogy, as I had done for his sister, Cindy, only eight weeks before. I was newly 19, an age that fits no one well. But at least I knew the codes of a Catholic wake, knew my place in the loose mourner’s phalanx: I was to receive sympathies, yes, but more importantly, I kept an eye on my cousins, my aunt, my mother, my grandparents, ready to throw myself in the line of any unwanted attention. They watched me for the same reason.
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio on “Catalina”
For the final episode of Season 2 of Writing Latinos, we talked with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio about her new novel, Catalina, published by One World. It is an engrossing read about a young woman named Catalina, who lived in Ecuador as a small girl, migrated to New York to live with her grandparents, attended Harvard University, and, by the novel’s end, finds herself flirting with a career in writing and publishing.
Anchors leaving. Low viewership. No helicopter. At the Boston 25 TV news station, uncertainty reigns.
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Anchors leaving. Low viewership. No helicopter. At the Boston 25 TV news station, uncertainty reigns. - The Boston Globe
Corey Lewandowski says he has spoken with senior leaders, says Trump is in 'good spirits' after shooting One of former President Donald Trump's closest allies in New Hampshire said he's been in touch with the campaign after Trump survived an assassination attempt Saturday night in Pennsylvania.
Two public radio stations. Two different business models. One future of public radio in Boston hangs in the balance.
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A Hole at the Bottom of the Book
Only after we are certain that we have finished a piece of writing can we know precisely what we have failed to say. Among other things, this failure points us to where we must begin writing again. This idea emerges with progressive clarity from Annie Ernaux’s latest book, The Young Man, published in France in May 2022 and in September from Seven Stories Press in Alison Strayer’s translation, Ernaux’s first English-language release since she won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
CoinDesk Revenue Slowed Before Sale to Bullish
Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group announced last week that it sold its crypto news subsidiary CoinDesk to the crypto exchange Bullish. Silbert said in a tweet that the sale made CoinDesk, which DCG bought for $500,000 in 2016, “one of our best investments of all time,” but the sale price was not disclosed and could not be learned. What is clear, though, is that CoinDesk has seen its business slow dramatically over the past year as crypto advertisers have generally pulled back.
Senior Season Tape
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One Binance Saga Comes to a Close
Just when it felt like crypto could coast into Thanksgiving with OpenAI drama dominating headlines, U.S. officials barged in with a settlement in long-running investigations into Binance. The deal is on one hand a seismic shift for the world’s biggest crypto exchange. (You can view our updated Binance org chart here.) Its founder Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to violating U.S. anti-money laundering laws in a Seattle courtroom on Tuesday and agreed to resign from Binance.
Briefing: SEC Sues Crypto Exchange Kraken
crypto The Securities and Exchange Commission sued crypto exchange Kraken on Monday, alleging that the company failed to register as a national securities exchange, broker-dealer and clearing agency and has commingled billions of dollars in customer assets with its own. The lawsuit follows similar legal action taken by the SEC against other crypto exchanges, including Coinbase and Binance, for... Get Breaking News, Relevant Stories, and Special Event & Editorial Invites - or -
Briefing: DOJ Seeks Over $4 Billion From Binance to Resolve Criminal Investigation
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Briefing: Crypto Exchange Bullish Acquires CoinDesk
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Another Fintech Drops Crypto
Crypto prices have been creeping up over the past month, fueling hope that the crypto winter could be thawing. But some trading and investing apps have already thrown in the towel. I reported earlier this week that Stash, an app that offers stock, ETF and crypto trading, is pulling the plug on its crypto trading service in December. The fintech had already taken crypto out of portfolios it manages for its customers in late September.
Briefing: Coatue-Backed Stash to No Longer Offer Crypto Investing Through Bakkt
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Briefing: Foresight Ventures Acquires Majority Stake in Crypto News Site The Block
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OpenSea 2.0 Leaves a Lot to the Imagination
OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer announced last week, in what seemed to be a post-Sam Bankman-Fried trial Friday afternoon news dump, that the NFT marketplace was laying off 50% of its staff and pivoting to “OpenSea 2.0.” Halfway through this new week and OpenSea is still the biggest news on the crypto beat. My colleague Kate scooped yesterday that Coatue Management, which co-led a $300 million investment into the startup in January 2022, marked down its $100 million investment by 90% as of June 2023.
A Front-Row Seat at the Sam Bankman-Fried Circus
Shortly after 1:30 a.m. on Monday morning, while most people were tucked in bed ahead of the new week, I stepped into an Uber outside my apartment in Brooklyn. I was on my way to the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse in Manhattan with the hopes of snagging one of the 21 courtroom seats to see Sam Bankman-Fried testify in his own criminal trial.
Briefing: Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted on All Counts
Anduril’s Luckey Warns of ‘No Mercy’ After Suing Startup Launched by AlumsRead now crypto A jury Thursday found Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven charges in his federal criminal trial, finding that the former FTX CEO defrauded customers and investors by using customer money for venture investments, political donations and real estate purchases, according to multiple reports.
The Evidence Jurors Will Consider to Decide SBF’s Fate
The fall of FTX to the closing days of Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial moved at breakneck speed, as my colleague Martin Peers wrote on Tuesday. Exactly a year ago on Wednesday, the public still did not know the details of the leaked Alameda Research balance sheet that kick-started FTX’s demise. The trial moved at a brisk pace too.
SBF Shifts Blame to His Inner Circle
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried wrapped up testimony in his criminal case on Tuesday, capping off four days on the stand by downplaying his role in the misuse of billions in customer funds. In his testimony, Bankman-Fried emphasized his hands-off management style and at times deflected blame to other former executives at his crypto firms.
Briefing: SBF’s Pre-Trial Comments Come Back to Bite Him
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Testimony Was Always His Only Case
Some observers saw Sam Bankman-Fried’s decision to testify in his trial on fraud charges as a Hail Mary pass. But he might not have had any other choice. Bankman-Fried began testifying before the jury Friday morning, the third witness called by his lawyers, following brief appearances by his Bahamas lawyer and an expert witness who testified about FTX accounts. Essentially, though, the former FTX CEO, who faces up to 110 years of prison time, is on his own.
Fred Ehrsam’s Quiet Quitting at Paradigm
Paradigm co-founder Fred Ehrsam is relinquishing his role as managing partner of the crypto-focused firm he co-founded five years ago, I reported yesterday. The writing has been on the wall for a while. As I wrote in my story, Ehrsam—who had previously co-founded Coinbase with Brian Armstrong—has taken a back seat over the past year to the firm’s other co-founder, Matt Huang.
Briefing: BlockFi Emerges From Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
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Paradigm’s Fred Ehrsam Stepping Down as Managing Partner
Paradigm co-founder Fred Ehrsam is stepping down as managing partner, according to an email to employees on Tuesday, as the top crypto-focused venture capital firm gears up to raise a new fund and move past the black eye of its major investment in failed crypto exchange FTX.
Behind SBF’s Campaign of ‘Excessive’ Spending
Early last year, Sam Bankman-Fried attended a dinner, alongside Hillary Clinton, Jeff Bezos and Leonardo DiCaprio, at the house of investor Michael Kives, co-founder of the firm K5.
Will SBF Testify?
Prosecutors expect to rest their case in the criminal trial of Sam Bankman-Fried next week (after the trial won’t meet for four consecutive business days), setting up the defense’s opportunity to persuade jurors they should not convict him on any of the seven fraud and conspiracy charges he faces. The case was already an uphill battle for Bankman-Fried and his defense team, led by Mark Cohen of the law firm Cohen & Gresser.
Briefing: Former FTX Executive Singh Testifies on Straw Donations, Defrauding Investors
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How Alameda Helped Bankrupt Crypto Lenders
Sam Bankman-Fried’s former lieutenant, Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison, this week detailed how Bankman-Fried oversaw a massive fraud by pushing Alameda to use FTX customer funds for startup investments, political donations and loans to executives. But Ellison’s testimony also pulled back the curtain on the once-secret world of crypto lending, which underpinned the rise of FTX and Alameda.
Briefing: Caroline Ellison Testifies SBF Persuaded Her Not to Resign
crypto Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of FTX’s trading firm Alameda Research, testified Thursday in the criminal trial of Sam Bankman-Fried that he persuaded her not to resign as CEO, by telling her she was “too important” to the trading firm. Ellison, who completed her three-day-long testimony Thursday afternoon, said that she did not resign as CEO before Alameda collapsed because she trusted... Get Breaking News, Relevant Stories, and Special Event & Editorial Invites - or -
Briefing: Ellison Created Seven Different Alameda Balance Sheets at SBF’s Direction
crypto Caroline Ellison testified Wednesday that Sam Bankman-Fried told her to create seven different balance sheets for his Alameda Research hedge fund in June 2022 after a crypto price collapse prompted Alameda’s lenders to call in loans. Ellison, Alameda’s former CEO, said that Bankman-Fried ultimately sent crypto lender Genesis a version of a balance sheet that did not disclose $10 billion of FTX... Get Breaking News, Relevant Stories, and Special Event & Editorial Invites - or -
Briefing: J.P. Morgan Facilitates Its First Blockchain-Based Settlement Trade
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Caroline Ellison’s Front Row Seat to SBF’s Risky Bets
Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of FTX’s Alameda Research hedge fund, kicked off the most high-profile testimony to date in the criminal trial of Sam Bankman-Fried on Tuesday, testifying that she committed financial crimes with the former FTX CEO and that he directed Alameda to “borrow as much” as possible.
In the Courtroom With SBF
Flanked by his two top lawyers, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried sat, mostly silent, on the 26th floor in a Manhattan courtroom for the first week of his criminal trial, where he’s being tried for fraud and conspiracy charges related to his role in the collapse of one of the world’s biggest crypto exchanges.
SBF’s ‘Good Faith’ Defense
Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial kicked off in a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday with jury selection, followed by opening statements from both the prosecution and the defense earlier today. I went down to check out the action in person on Wednesday, where we got the first in depth look at how Bankman-Fried and his lawyers will defend the case.
Briefing: Chainalysis Lays Off 15% of Staff
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