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Children's Safety on Social Media; Manhattan BP Mark Levine; CUNY Makes Journalism School More Affordable; The 4-Day Work Week
The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 2, 2024
On today's show:
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A hearing on kids' online safety became contentious and, at times, emotional as senators from both parties grilled tech CEOs. Will Oremus, technology reporter at The Washington Post, offers a recap and analysis.
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Mark Levine, Manhattan borough president, talks about his proposal to get scaffolding down more quickly, and other news.
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The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York got a big grant that will allow the school to work toward free tuition at a time when the profession is undergoing big changes. Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist and philanthropist, and Graciela Mochkofsky, dean at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, contributing writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Prophet of the Andes: An Unlikely Journey to the Promised Land (Knopf, 2022), talk about what this means for the school, individual students and the future of journalism.
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As the City pilots a four-day workweek for certain onsite employees, Vanessa Fuhrmans, deputy bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal careers and workplace team, reports on companies who have adopted that system and what makes it successful, and listeners share their experiences with the model.
