Translated by John Gibler. Leer en español. The WhatsApp group filled with messages from a new emergency: a group of armed men stopped three reporters, threatened them, and stole their cameras and cell phones. The reporters … Read more
We are in a time of hyper-propaganda, and not just from Russia, through social media that has reached, if not influenced, tens of millions of Americans. The president of the United States repeatedly lies and pushes conspiracy. The … Read more
The New York Times recently implemented what may be an unprecedented move for a newspaper. It hired a fact checker to backstop the reporting in the D.C. bureau. Aside from cutting down on errors, the nation’s most prestigious paper was … Read more
An associate of Erica Garner created a firestorm by doing something editors and producers do every day: use race to help decide who gets to tell an important story. It’s just that the Garner request was blunt while race and … Read more
Two things keep happening and probably will continue in 2018: News outlets will continue producing in-depth Trumpland stories; critics will keep slamming them for it. Some of that criticism is warranted, given that the media have decided that a small … Read more
When President Donald Trump responded to the news of a new and advanced ballistic missile test by North Korea on November 28, he used what was, for him, relatively restrained language. “I will only tell you that … Read more
A much-discussed Nazi-next-door piece in The New York Times went wrong for one reason: It treated the reporter’s discovery of the normalcy of white supremacy as news. There is nothing new nor abnormal about white supremacy, just … Read more
Read in English. Nueve horas duró el abrazo colectivo FotoXWesley, cuatro horas más de lo planeado: la subasta tuvo que suspenderse porque el Centro de la Imagen estaba por cerrar. A pesar del ritmo … Read more
Translated from the Spanish by John Gibler. Leer en español. The collective embrace Photo4Wesley lasted nine hours, four hours longer than planned. The auction was only interrupted because the venue, Centro de la Imagen, had to close. Despite the … Read more
Journalism is in crisis; that is old news. But since I arrived at Harvard nearly three months ago, I have been struck at how much emotional and intellectual energy is being expended in the U.S. declaring that journalism is on … Read more
