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Trump Threatens New York Times, Penguin Random House over Critical Coverage
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Legal letter follows complaints aimed at CBS News, the Washington Post, and the Daily Beast.
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Complicating the Latino-Voter Story
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Portraying Latinos as homogeneous misrepresents them. Some reporters showed another way.
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Journalism still has power. But not the way you’d hope.
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Pete Hegseth, the Fox News personality, Iraq War veteran, and one-time guard at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, often receives compliments for his commentary on Fox & Friends, the popular morning show Hegseth frequently guest-hosts, from President Trump. Hegseth was briefly considered by...
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Ahead of Trump’s Second Term, Calls for a Sex Strike Grow Online
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From Lysistrata to 4B
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The intrepid reporter who got expelled from the UN
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Last March, Matthew Lee, an independent reporter, trained his phone’s camera on the 36th floor of the United Nations Secretariat Building. For more than a decade, Lee has been covering every inch of the UN for his self-made blog, Inner City Press, read widely by journalists on the diplomacy...
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The Wall Street Journal’s Campaign to Free Evan Gershkovich
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What newsrooms need to know, from an insider who helped lead the effort.
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Ten Tips for Reporting in an Autocracy
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American journalists have much to learn from colleagues in countries where democracy has been under siege.
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‘Still Shooting Ourselves in the Foot, Over and Over’
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The New Yorker’s Clare Malone on trust in journalism and newsroom morale after Trump’s win.
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To truly represent the US, national news organizations need to collaborate with local partners.
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The far-right online takeover, à la française
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Over the weekend, Jordan Bardella, a French far-right politician, published a book with the title Ce que je cherche, or What I’m Looking For. On its face, there was nothing out of the ordinary about this—“I wanted to speak directly to the French people in a one-on-one exercise, which no other...
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The far-right online takeover, à la française
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Over the weekend, Jordan Bardella, a French far-right politician, published a book with the title Ce que je cherche, or What I’m Looking For. On its face, there was nothing out of the ordinary about this—“I wanted to speak directly to the French people in a one-on-one exercise, which no other...
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How to Think About Covering Trump 2.0
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A week or what feels like five thousand years ago, Semafor’s Max Tani reported on a recent meeting between journalists and top editors at the New York Times, during which, among other things, the former got to ask the latter about the paper’s coverage of Donald Trump. In the run-up to the...
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Our Mission in Trump’s Second Term
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Dear Readers, In his first administration, Donald Trump posed challenges to the press unlike any since the Nixon White House. When he returns, on January 20, 2025, those challenges are going to intensify. The day after the election, CJR outlined what’s likely to happen in Trump’s second term:...
on Nov 8
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Another Letter to a Young Journalist
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We’ve entered a dark age. We need your generation not to despair, but instead to recommit to the fight for democracy.
on Nov 7
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We must again be at work, but also preparing for war if Trump chooses that.
on Nov 7
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Last night, less than twenty-four hours after Donald Trump swept to a second term, Rachel Maddow appeared on MSNBC and offered a rallying cry to the network’s liberal viewers. Pointing to authoritarian takeovers of other democracies, Maddow noted that “the more ground the authoritarian takes,...
on Nov 7
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At 2:16am, Eastern time, Eric Trump, son of Donald, posted a photo of his father to X. It shows Trump standing in profile, looking at what appears to be a victory speech in his hand. The side of Trump’s face nearest the camera is shaded in darkness, but the other side is visible, too, via […]
on Nov 6
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‘We Know the Pressure Will Come’
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For reporters covering cartels in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, ethical considerations are more than academic.
on Nov 6
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Early yesterday, the union that represents tech staffers at the New York Times walked off the job, citing allegations of unfair labor practices amid stalled contract talks with management. (The union claims that bosses imposed return-to-office mandates without negotiation and also interrogated...
on Nov 5
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What Jeff Bezos Got Wrong About Newspaper Endorsements
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His decision misstated our influence and underestimated our impact.
on Nov 5
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Overnight, Ben Smith opened Semafor’s media newsletter by noting an impending transition “from vivisection to post-mortem”: the election, he wrote, “will be followed inevitably by a round of handwringing on what journalists got wrong.” Looking forward at all the looking back, Smith entered an...
on Nov 4
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Media consumption in the Arab American capital has the potential to swing the presidential election. No story is bigger than the war in Gaza, now spilling over into Lebanon and across the Middle East.
on Nov 2
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The Most Important Election of a Lifetime?
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Five months ago—when I stood outside a courthouse in Lower Manhattan with a couple dozen stragglers, half-heartedly hoping to get into the first (and so far only) criminal trial of Donald Trump—the presidential campaign felt moribund, and so did the news surrounding it. Hardly anyone was tuning...
on Nov 1
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Campaign Notebook, International Edition
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Foreign reporters on covering the Americanest election imaginable.
on Nov 1
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Last week, DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, made a tool for identifying AI-generated text generally available—a widely appreciated step toward greater levels of accountability in an industry struggling with misattribution. The tool, called SynthID, builds on a growing research area:...
on Oct 31
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Jeff Bezos Should Donate the Washington Post to a Charity
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His conflicts of interests are insurmountable. He can take a heroic path to strengthen journalism.
on Oct 30
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Q&A: The Nevada Current’s Michael Lyle on covering a swing state amid poll anxiety
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Michael Lyle, a reporter in Nevada, knew before the election started that it would be anxiety-inducing, both for the communities he serves and for the nation at large. Since 2010, Lyle has reported in the south of the state, first at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, then, for the past six and a...
on Oct 30
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Why Are Liberals Infuriated with the Media?
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From sanewashing to false equivalence, many readers have had it with their favorite news publications. Editors would do well to listen.
on Oct 29
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Why did a Canadian paper name the Washington Post’s anonymous sources?
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Earlier this month, on Canadian Thanksgiving, a significant story about the country emerged from the neighbor that doesn’t do Thanksgiving until November. The Washington Post reported, citing Canadian officials who spoke anonymously given the “sensitivity” of what they were alleging, that...
on Oct 29
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Jeff Bezos just proved the value of the newspaper endorsement
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A little over two years ago, Alden Global Capital, the financial firm notorious for slashing costs at the many local newspapers it owns, cut something else: editorial endorsements, at least in races for president, governor, and US Senate. The company cited the “increasingly acrimonious” state of...
on Oct 28
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On Friday, the Washington Post’s publisher, Will Lewis, announced that the paper would no longer make endorsements for president, after the paper’s journalists had already drafted an endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris. Over a period of several weeks, a Post staffer told me, two Post...
on Oct 25
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The Washington Post has a Bezos problem
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<p>For a news organization, being owned by an oligarch can be complicated. In 2013, when Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post from the Graham family, those complications were not top of mind. The Post was in a downward spiral, sloughing off staff and flirting with irrelevance. Bezos’s money...
on Oct 25
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Harris is outspending Trump on social media. How much does that matter?
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With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are making a final push to convince young voters—a demographic best reached online. Harris got off to a good start, with a honeymoon phase of “brat” and coconut memes on social media (which Mathew Ingram wrote...
on Oct 24
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Los Angeles Times editorials editor resigns after owner blocks presidential endorsement
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Mariel Garza, the editorials editor of the Los Angeles Times, resigned on Wednesday after the newspaper’s owner blocked the editorial board’s plans to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for president. “I am resigning because I want to make it clear that I am not okay with us being silent,”...
on Oct 24
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Q&A: Elections expert Tina Barton on how the media can cover voting responsibly
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In recent years, election workers across the US have faced increased danger. The uptick in threats largely followed Donald Trump’s false claims about the 2020 election; in 2021, the Justice Department established a task force in response. This spring, news outlets reported that some twenty...
on Oct 23
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If Donald Trump returns to the White House, the Espionage Act offers a clear path for him to stifle press freedom.
on Oct 22
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What elections in two post-Soviet states say about Russian influence and the press
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A year or so ago, a video circulated on TikTok that showed various Hollywood stars—Dolph Lundgren, Lindsay Lohan, Kevin from The Office—calling, in Russian, for the ouster of Maia Sandu, the president of Moldova. As you might imagine, the celebrities in question were not actually invested in the...
on Oct 22
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The Final Flight of the Airline Magazine
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United’s in-flight publication goes digital—and marks the end of an era.
on Oct 21
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On- and off-script with Donald Trump
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Late last month, the New York Times published a story with the headline: “McDonald’s, Pelosi, Debate Moderators: Trump Speech on Border Veers Off Course.” Trump, we were told, had walked into the lobby of Trump Tower with a binder from which he was going to deliver a speech about immigration...
on Oct 21
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The organization that safeguards the internet’s history is under attack
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In recent weeks, the digital library dedicated to preserving the internet’s history has been under attack by the internet itself. The Internet Archive, a nonprofit library based in California, was founded in 1996 to archive and preserve the World Wide Web. Today, it saves roughly twenty thousand...
on Oct 17
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In Germany, a ‘public media critic’ tackles Trump and ‘epistemological Switzerland’
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Last month, Bernhard Poerksen wrote an article assessing coverage of Donald Trump, whom he repeatedly described as a “media monster.” Among other arguments, Poerksen turned a skeptical eye on an image that a photojournalist took of Trump following the attempt to assassinate him at a rally in...
on Oct 17
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The reality of layoffs, beyond the national numbers
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Layoffs bookended Janice Llamoca’s career. Llamoca graduated from California State University, Fullerton, in 2009, just after the Great Recession swept layoffs through media and journalism. For four years, she stitched together unpaid internships while working as a restaurant server, until she...
on Oct 17
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Elon Musk is ‘all in, baby’ for Trump
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Soon after a bullet grazed Donald Trump’s ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July, Elon Musk took to X, which he owns, to issue his first public endorsement of Trump. Last weekend, Trump returned to the stage in Butler—this time accompanied by Musk, who wore a much-discussed T-shirt with...
on Oct 17
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A nonprofit that trains women journalists in the developing world is recalibrating its model amid a fundraising crunch.
on Oct 17
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Q&A: Abed Abu Shehadeh on podcasting for the Palestinian citizens of Israel
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Last Tuesday, after nearly two weeks of air strikes, Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon to fight Hezbollah. It was another significant escalation in a war that has, over the past year, devastated Gaza and swaths of Beirut and alienated Israel from many in the international community. But...
on Oct 10
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The campaign against solar benefited from two powerful forces funded by oil and gas interests. A former gas exec worked behind the scenes while the longstanding local paper, now in the hands of a “pink slime” media company, operated more publicly.
on Oct 9
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A deadly year for a press at war
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On September 29, 2023, Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, said at an event organized by The Atlantic that “the Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.” On September 30, tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets to oppose Prime Minister Benjamin...
on Oct 9