Welcome to Thursday, where Kim Jong-un offers to reopen hotline with Seoul, a 96-year-old Nazi war crime suspect flees and a Turkish man gets so drunk he joins a search party for himself. From France, we also take a look, and listen, to the surprisingly loud noises of the countryside.
Jeff Israely: Getting paid means some work for brands and it’s O.K. to talk about that
It is only the latest, though perhaps most complicated, chapter of the marriage of convenience between advertising and news.
By Jeff Israely@jeffisraely April 5, 2021, 9:07 a.m.
April 5, 2021, 9:07 a.m.
Editor’s note: Jeff Israely, a former Time magazine foreign correspondent in Europe, is the cofounder of a news company called Worldcrunch in Paris. For the past 11 years, he’s been describing and commenting on the startup process here at Nieman Lab. Read all his past installments here.
It was January 2020, and Justin Trudeau had decided to grow a beard. This of course was not
and all around us, dark ash. andre finot is an official at the cathedral. there is no more roof. no more roof. the roof has disappeared. and some water leakage is downstairs. and just a nightmare. reporter: tonight, the timeline of the disaster coming into focus. a fire alarm sounding at 6:20 p.m. inspectors search the building but find nothing. 23 minutes later, another alarm. that time, they see the flames, but it s too late. that 23-minute gap now part of an investigation authorities say will be long and complex. and then there is the scar on the city itself. i spoke with rozena crossman, an american living in paris. there were so many people and it was but it was so quiet. it was so, so quiet. reporter: it was almost like