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Mike North, who rose from a hot-dog vendor to became a controversial sports talk host, announced his retirement on Tuesday. “Hey folks, as you know locally on Channel 11 last night, I announced my retirement from sports media,” North said in a Twitter video. “And you know what? That means my Daily Herald column, Friday will be…

To learn more about and join Slate’s Conspiracy Thrillers Movie Club, visit Slate.com/thrillers. In this final episode of Slate’s Conspiracy Thrillers Movie Club, Sam Adams chats with the Ringer’s K. Austin Collins about 2017’s surprise breakout film: Get Out. The critics discuss director Jordan Peele’s horror influences, the film’s genius casting, how the social and…

Editor’s note: Hot Pod is a weekly newsletter on the podcasting industry written by Nick Quah; we happily share it with Nieman Lab readers each Tuesday. Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 134, published August 29, 2017. Art19 closes out a busy August. Last week, the California-based technology company announced…

Like the podcast, but a book! While that sounds boring and pointless, Duncan Greive controversially argues that it’s actually good. I found the 9th Floor “urgent and revelatory” upon its release in April and May, writing somewhat pompously that it “strips our recent political history of much of the distracting rancour which accompanied it in…

(Michelle Thompson for The Washington Post) It wasn’t until the year 1920 that the 19th Amendment was ratified and women were able to vote all across America. “In the history books, they keep saying that women ‘got equality’ or ‘got the vote,’” says Ellie Smeal, a leader in the modern-day women’s rights movement and president of…