Recently, the Montgomery County, Maryland, school district made local headlines after officials required administrators to review student newspapers prior to publication and outright censor certain reports based on vague standards.
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Annabelle Garland,
The Atlantic,
23 July 2026
Local newspapers and magazines have been particularly decimated by the cultural shift to online and social platforms.
The center’s resources—all free—include more than a million books and periodicals, with 400 terminals and 75 staff members available to help dig through them.
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Arati Menon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
7 June 2026
Galaxy, Analog, and Amazing Stories, those three periodicals – and our bathroom was piled high.
The puzzles will also be promoted in various newsletters and articles.
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Will Jeanes,
New York Times,
20 July 2026
Today's audiences are exposed to thousands of publishers, influencers, newsletters, podcasts and independent news organizations competing for attention.
The Quatermass Experiment was a set of four different sci-fi serials, each containing 6 episodes, that debuted in 1953, a full decade before Who hit our screens.
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William Worrall,
Space.com,
15 July 2026
There have been dozens and dozens of ceremonies on soaps over the past 80 years, including nuptials for infamous characters of daytime serials and fan-favorite supercouples.
Mora’s handwritten journals have become both a creative tool and a personal record of her filmmaking journey.
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Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
17 July 2026
Science advocacy groups and scientific journals led the way, and higher education coalitions, professional societies, elite research universities, and individual researchers followed.
Some of these digital pamphlets provide terse, functional updates while others act as the successors to bygone alt-weeklies, covering cultural happenings and carrying out local-interest investigations.
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Kyle Chayka,
New Yorker,
14 May 2026
The Southern California News Group is made up of 11 daily news publications and several weeklies throughout Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
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