Stories
Censorship
“Book Bans Are Discriminatory And Bad, U.S. Dept. of Education Rules” | Vice’s Motherboard
“Authors And Publisher Sue Florida School District Over Draconian Book Bans” | Vice’s Motherboard
“Florida Democrats Troll DeSantis By Trying To Ban His Book” | Vice’s Motherboard
“Here’s How One Angry Parent Got All Graphic Novels Pulled From A School District” | Vice’s Motherboard
“We Spoke to The Florida Teacher Who Was Fired For a Viral Video Of Empty School Library Shelves” | Vice’s Motherboard
"Florida Teachers Are Emptying Classroom Libraries to Avoid Going to Jail" | Vice’s Motherboard
"Michigan Is Banning Inmates From Reading Totally Normal Books" | Vice’s Motherboard
"It Only Takes One Parent to Get All The Graphic Novels Removed From a School Library" | Vice’s Motherboard
"Anti-LGBTQ Groups Are Helping Enforce a ‘Book Ban’ Law in Florida" | Vice’s Motherboard
"Teens Are Fighting Back Against LGBTQ Book Bans" | Vice’s Motherboard
"How a Book Gets Banned in America" | Vice’s Motherboard
"The Group Banning LGBT Books Wants to Replace Them With Anti-Gay Propaganda" | Vice’s Motherboard
Preservation
"People Are Preserving Dead Relatives' Tattoos and Turning Them Into Art" | Vice’s Motherboard
"Hunter S. Thompson's Widow Opens Doors To His 'War Room'" | NPR
"New sculpture outside Aspen Art Museum evokes reactions from passersby" | Aspen Public Radio
"A piece of liberty resides in Aspen" | Aspen Public Radio
Labor
"Striking Workers Just Won a Historic Union Contract At Book Giant HarperCollins" | Vice’s Motherboard
"Firing of Colorado Librarian Violated Anti-Discrimination Laws" | Vice’s Motherboard
"Striking HarperCollins Workers Rally Outside Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp" | Vice’s Motherboard
Libraries
“NYC Budget Would Close Libraries On Weekends While Police Get Huge Bonuses” | Vice’s Motherboard
“Missouri Reps Just Voted To Completely Defund The State’s Public Libraries” | Vice’s Motherboard
"Librarians Are Finding Thousands Of Books No Longer Protected By Copyright Law" | Vice’s Motherboard
"Public Library Budgets Are Being Slashed. Police Have More Cash Than Ever" | Vice’s Motherboard
"‘Shadow Libraries’ Are Moving Their Pirated Books to The Dark Web After Fed Crackdowns" | Vice’s Motherboard
"Libraries Are Beefing Up Security After a Series of Violent Threats" | Vice’s Motherboard
"District Attorney Considers Prosecuting Librarians for Stocking LGBTQ Books" | Vice’s Motherboard
"This Town Voted To Defund its Public Library After it Included LGBTQ+ Books" | Vice’s Motherboard
"Oklahoma Threatens Librarians: ‘Don’t Use the Word Abortion’" | Vice’s Motherboard
"This Town Closed Its Only Library After Residents Chased Out LGBTQ+ Workers" | Vice’s Motherboard
"A Librarian Is Being Threatened for Creating LGBTQ Book Displays" | Vice’s Motherboard
Education
“GOP Mega-donor Who Bought The Constitution Now Owns Harvard’s Grad School” | Vice’s Motherboard
"Publishing Company Starts School Year by Removing Over 1,000 E-Textbooks" | Vice’s Motherboard
"After Uvalde, Texas Public Schools Send Home DNA Kits For Kids" | Vice’s Motherboard
"A Texas School District Just Voted To Ban Talking About Trans People" | Vice’s Motherboard
"PCBs in Colorado public schools" | Boulder Weekly
“Oil trains pass within one mile of North Country schools” | North Country Public Radio
Platforms
“Rebekah Jones’ Viral Claims About Her Son’s Arrest By ‘Fascist’ DeSantis Don’t Match Available Evidence” | Vice’s Motherboard
"TikTok Users Are Showing Readers How To Game Amazon’s Ebook Return Policy" | Vice’s Motherboard
"Ebook Services Are Bringing Unhinged Conspiracy Books into Public Libraries" | Vice’s Motherboard
"Twitch Influencers Ruined r/Place For Everyone" | Vice’s Motherboard
Archives
“Internet Archive Loses Historic Copyright Case, Vows To Appeal” | Vice’s Motherboard
"Fanfiction Enthusiasts Are Digitally Preserving Decades Worth of Zines" | Vice’s Motherboard
"Big Publishers Are Putting The Internet Archive On Trial" | Vice’s Motherboard
"Archivists Are Putting Terrorist Manifestos Online. Should They Stay There?" | Vice’s Motherboard
Artificial Intelligence
“AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart” | Vice’s Motherboard
"Students Are Using AI to Write Their Papers, Because Of Course They Are" | Vice’s Motherboard
Music
"Libraries Are Launching Their Own Local Music Streaming Platforms" | Vice’s Motherboard
"Anythink Studio is Helping Artists Sharpen Their Digital Media Skills For Free" | 303 Magazine
“Aspen Music Festival Piano Technicians Find The Right Key” | Aspen Public Radio
Opinion
"Mad Moms" | Boulder Weekly
"We Need To Rethink The Library of Congress Classification" | Literary Hub