Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a U.S. government-funded news organization, has cut funding for The Interpreter magazine, an online publication that has critically covered Russia. Michael Weiss, a Daily Beast senior editor who also serves as editor-in-chief of The Interpreter, told The Huffington Post that RFE/RL’s management made the decision to stop funding the magazine last fall, before Donald Trump’s election victory.While RFE/RL stopped paying Weiss’ three-person team for The Interpreter at the end of December, following the conclusion of a one-year contract, the news organization agreed to continue paying them for work on Polygraph.info, a new fact-checking and propaganda debunking …read more
Source: The Huffington Post