Murrow understood that McCarthyism was bigger than the actions of a single senator, as he explained near the end of his March 9 broadcast. McCarthy, he said, “didn’t create this situation of fear; he merely exploited it—and rather successfully.” The roots of that fear, Murrow believed, could be traced to a public that had forgotten […]
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Biden Needs to Stop Hiding
Hersey had been granted a short interview with Truman, a self-taught lover of history who revered Plutarch’s Lives, biographical sketches of great Greeks and Romans. Instead of asking the predictable reporter questions, Hersey used his time to appeal to Truman’s obligation to history. The result: Hersey was soon allowed to roam the Truman administration for […]
Read MoreThere Will Never Be Another Magazine Like Vice
Stories about the end of Vice tend to lump it in with other failing digital media brands. And it’s true that Vice suffered from the same ailments facing companies like BuzzFeed and G/O (formerly Gawker): an ad market that’s been in a long slump, social media traffic to news sources cratering, and overpaid, incompetent leadership. […]
Read MoreVice Made the Fatal Mistake of Trying to Grow Up
Stories about the end of Vice tend to lump it in with other failing digital media brands. And it’s true that Vice suffered from the same ailments facing companies like BuzzFeed and G/O (formerly Gawker): an ad market that’s been in a long slump, social media traffic to news sources cratering, and overpaid, incompetent leadership. […]
Read MoreThe Rot in the Media Industry Starts at the Top
Several nonprofit models are leading the industry routinely investing in consequential investigative journalism at a time when the scope of so many of their peers seems to be shrinking—including Mother Jones, ProPublica, and The City—the last of which staved off its own bout of potential layoffs in 2023 by giving its employees the option to […]
Read MoreThe Incompetent Bosses Driving American Journalism Into the Ground
Several nonprofit models are leading the industry routinely investing in consequential investigative journalism at a time when the scope of so many of their peers seems to be shrinking—including Mother Jones, ProPublica, and The City—the last of which staved off its own bout of potential layoffs in 2023 by giving its employees the option to […]
Read MoreAward shines a spotlight on local science journalism
Local reporting is a critical tool in the battle against disinformation and misinformation. It can also provide valuable data about everything from environmental damage derived from questionable agribusiness practices to the long-term effects of logging on communities. Reporting like this requires more than just journalistic chops. It needs a network that can share these important […]
Read MoreX Purges Prominent Journalists, Leftists With No Explanation
UPDATE 1/9/24: Hours after reporting out this initial story, some of the suspended X accounts returned. X has not explained what happened and the affected account owners have no idea why they were briefly suspended. The reinstatement came after notable users such as George Galloway, a former member of the British Parliament, called out Musk […]
Read MoreOpenAI partners with Politico, Business Insider publisher Axel Springer to surface and train on news content
Are you ready to bring more awareness to your brand? Consider becoming a sponsor for The AI Impact Tour. Learn more about the opportunities here. OpenAI may have had a bumpy November, but the leading generative AI company appears to be trying to put that behind it as it moves forward to further enmesh itself […]
Read More‘A thing of the past’
The final issue of Seward’s community newspaper hit stands Nov. 29, snuffing out one of the Kenai Peninsula’s last remaining news sources and the eastern peninsula’s only weekly newspaper. “After lengthy deliberation, the decision has been made to discontinue publishing the Seward Journal at the end of the month,” Seward Journal Publisher Michael Paschall wrote […]
Read MoreRemembering Charlie Peters
Nothing like that ever happened to the Monthly. It never acquired much of a circulation, even in Washington, where to this day a surprising number of government insiders have never heard of it (though not the better sort). But it caught the attention of candidate Jimmy Carter, who hired Monthly editor James Fallows as chief […]
Read MoreWhy Are American Reporters Embedding With the Israeli Military?
“Those organizations are obligated to tell their readers and their viewers what the restrictions are,” he said. “If you fail to disclose that, you’re really doing everyone a disservice.” This is not the first time a CNN journalist has been embedded with a foreign military; in 2016, its journalists embedded with Iraqi special forces. This […]
Read MoreWhy Are Journalists Embedding With the Israeli Military?
“Those organizations are obligated to tell their readers and their viewers what the restrictions are,” he said. “If you fail to disclose that, you’re really doing everyone a disservice.” This is not the first time a CNN journalist has been embedded with a foreign military; in 2016, its journalists embedded with Iraqi special forces. This […]
Read MoreWhy Are CNN, ABC, and NBC Reporters Embedding With the Israeli Military?
“Those organizations are obligated to tell their readers and their viewers what the restrictions are,” he said. “If you fail to disclose that, you’re really doing everyone a disservice.” This is not the first time a CNN journalist has been embedded with a foreign military; in 2016, its journalists embedded with Iraqi special forces. This […]
Read MoreChristopher Rufo’s Shockingly Open Appeal: I’ll Fund Right-Wing “Culture War” Projects
His valet, Walt Nauta, and a Mar-a-Lago property manager, Carlos de Oliveira, are also charged in the case for allegedly moving boxes housing the sensitive documents in and out of a storage room in an effort to conceal them from FBI investigators. Trump, Nauta, and de Oliveira have all pleaded not guilty. Cannon has handed […]
Read MoreYears of Incarcerated Journalist’s Reporting Deleted by Notorious Prison Telecom ‘Inadvertently’
Securus Technologies, a prison telecommunications company previously reported on for its predatory business practices, deleted incarcerated users’ draft emails in a system reboot on Monday. One incarcerated journalist says they use the draft box to do critical reporting and lost years of work as a result of the wipe, and that the company silenced important […]
Read MoreNews Coverage of Israel and Palestine Makes Me Ashamed to be a Journalist
This article originally appeared on VICE Belgium. For over three weeks now, my social media feeds have been flooded with content about the crisis in Israel and Palestine. And since I, like you, live in a bubble where everyone more or less shares my opinions, the majority of these posts have been in support of […]
Read MoreHow Queer Media Arrived at a Crossroads Between Independence and Survival
All the same, there are undoubtedly some queer folks and lesbians who love the journal but will absolutely cancel their subscriptions over this grant. Part of this anger is tied to the cultural value many people put on independent and/or self-published queer media, zines, and publications, which have deep roots in gay and trans rights, […]
Read MoreHow Queer Media Arrived at a Crossroads Between Independence and Survival
All the same, there are undoubtedly some queer folks and lesbians who love the journal but will absolutely cancel their subscriptions over this grant. Part of this anger is tied to the cultural value many people put on independent and/or self-published queer media, zines, and publications, which have deep roots in gay and trans rights, […]
Read MoreClimate Chaos Is Outpacing Science and Outrunning Journalism
It’s been the accelerating pace of simultaneous climate events that has been largely missing from the coverage. Sixteen scientists, led by James Hansen, the prophetic NASA astrophysicist who first alerted Congress to the impending climate cataclysm in 1988, recently warned that the speed of climate change’s most disruptive impacts is blowing past the data in the climate […]
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