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Canada’s public broadcaster pauses Twitter account, joining U.S. outlets

This sto­ry, plus Fox News-Dom­in­ion defama­tion tri­al to begin today, new data from Pew Research Cen­ter on Amer­i­cans’ pod­cast lis­ten­ing habits and atti­tudes and more, all in today’s media head­lines. Top Sto­ries Apr 18, 2023Canada’s pub­lic broad­cast­er paus­es Twit­ter over ‘gov­­ern­­ment-fund­ed’ tag Andrew Jeong / The Wash­ing­ton Post Apr 18, 2023Fox News and Domin­ion tri­al […] The…

Joe Biden’s Ireland trip reinforces narrative of the American dream

US president’s ‘home­com­ing’ vis­it has alchemised pol­i­tics, diplo­ma­cy and the per­son­al into a feel­go­od glow for vis­i­tor and hosts John F Kennedy set the tem­plate for US pres­i­den­tial for­ays to Ire­land with a rap­tur­ous vis­it in 1963 that he called the best four days of his life. Joe Biden’s vis­it this week did not quite match that…

‘Keep your head down’ — Americans in Russia tread carefully after arrest of US journalist

MOSCOW — If Amer­i­cans in Rus­sia were wor­ried before, they now have an extra rea­son to be con­cerned.  The arrest of the Wall Street Jour­nal reporter Evan Ger­shkovich has sent rip­ples of alarm through the com­mu­ni­ty of Amer­i­can jour­nal­ists in Rus­sia, leav­ing many in the coun­try won­der­ing who, if any­one, might be next.  Ger­shkovich was seized by FSB security…

Easter in Ethiopia: Hoping for peace and rebirth

Ethiopia’s small Catholic com­mu­ni­ty cel­e­brates the Res­ur­rec­tion of Christ on 16 April, in line with the cal­en­dar of the Ethiopi­an Cop­tic Ortho­dox Church. The head of the Socio-Pas­­toral Com­mis­sion of the Arch­dio­cese of Addis Aba­ba and a Sale­sian Sis­ter talk about their hopes for true peace in Tigray, and about an inter-con­­gre­­ga­­tion­al net­work project promoted…