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... [even if] their company is a fumbling mismanaged bank, why should they all of a sudden be paid the same as the guy down the block who delivers restaurant supplies,” said a Citigroup executive to New York Magazine's Gabriel Sherman in his article ...

“The innovation we’re doing here is not the technology,” says Josh Breitbart, director of field operations at the Open Technology Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that’s helping to develop software for Detroit’s mesh wireless network. “It’s the social networks.”

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"Parents tend to think: 'If my kids are interacting with media, that they're getting something out of it,' versus 'If they're just watching they're not,'" says Lisa Guernsey. "It's a dangerous dichotomy--it's not always true. Some passive screen media ...

When Martha Wright’s grandson was moved to a prison outside of her hometown of Washington, D.C., she didn’t expect that a short 5-minute conversation with him could cost up to $18.

“You just have to get everything out in one line,” she laughs.

“We want a communications medium that's more transparent so we can control how we communicate,” says Joshua Brietbart, a policy analyst at the Open Technology Initiative. Brietbart advocates for a multi-issue approach that improves both literacy and ...

Benjamin Lennett, a policy analyst with the New America Foundation, applauded the Justice Department's actions. “We're pleased that the DOJ recognized the underlying facts of the merger: that it would raise prices, kill jobs, harm compassion, ...

The increasing lack of racial diversity in the U.S. media landscape is becoming a hot topic and putting pressure on policy makers to (finally) pay attention.