In June, New Yorker editor David Remnick interviewed New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger. They discussed a variety of subjects, including the rise of digital media, The Times’s financial health, the storied history of the news behemoths they are … Read more
When I was a little kid, there was a game I used to play for hours and hours. To my parents and siblings, it looked like I was wandering around our front yard in Maine, muttering to myself, but I … Read more
In the summer of 2017, Susan Potter of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote the kind of column that no editor wants to pen. “Our poll of the 6th Congressional District race, conducted two weeks before the June 20 runoff, missed the … Read more
Seyward Darby’s book on women in the white nationalist movement, “Sisters in Hate,” grew out of a detailed piece of reporting she published in Harper’s in 2017. But that wasn’t the first place … Read more
Farai Chideya is a journalist whose career has encompassed academia as well as broadcast and print journalism. She has worked at news organizations including NPR, CNN, ABC News, FiveThirtyEight, and The Intercept. Chideya, who has reported from 49 states and … Read more
It’s the electoral climax Americans have grown accustomed to over the course of decades: That dramatic moment when the TV anchor announces his or her network can “call” the winner of the election to be the president of the United … Read more
In the normal course of human affairs, journalism is the first rough draft of history. In a pandemic, however, journalism is the first rough draft of the future. We are all sitting alone in our homes. We are also sitting … Read more
While reporting on the 2018 midterm elections in July, NPR reporter Asma Khalid went to Georgia to talk to African-American voters. Knowing she had been interviewing Republicans a few days before, “they wanted to know … Read more
The media, along with former FBI Director James Comey, helped Donald Trump become president. Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com has detailed why. But it doesn’t take a mathematician to understand that critical reporting in the final days … Read more
The media are making good on their promise to spend more time in Trumpland, to explore more deeply the animating thoughts of the millions of supposedly previously overlooked Americans who voted to make Donald Trump president. As the articles and … Read more
