“Can star player Marco Fabián revive the Union’s Latino fan base? Show me some cariño (affection), they say.” That was the headline for an April 2019 Spanish-language multimedia feature in The Philadelphia Inquirer about Mexican soccer … Read more
At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, I was followed into my newsrooms’ building in downtown Washington, D.C. by a man who called me a “dirty bitch with the flu.” My experience is one example of many across the country … Read more
Charlie Warzel is an Opinion writer at large at The New York Times, where he writes about the intersection of technology, media, and politics. For the Times and in his prior role as a senior technology reporter … Read more
When the Soviet army moved to crush a powerful pro-independence movement in its republic of Lithuania in 1991, the military’s list of targets included Lithuania’s broadcast studios and TV transmission tower, which for months had defiantly sent out news … Read more
"You Are Here: A Field Guide for Navigating Polarized Speech, Conspiracy Theories, and Our Polluted Media Landscape" by Whitney Phillips and Ryan M. Milner In “You Are Here: A Field … Read more
With the passage of the $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill, Washington is not only providing help to families, schools, states, and local government; it is throwing a lifeline to the imperiled local news business as well. The … Read more
Photojournalist Anastasia Taylor-Lind, a 2016 Nieman Fellow, on photographing the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict: “I visited the emergency department of Stepanakert hospital several times during the last days of the war in Nagorno Karabakh. I spent hours waiting … Read more
For many health reporters, reporting on the coronavirus started long before most Americans realized the devastating impact it would have on their daily lives. Declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020, … Read more
Arundhati Roy’s first novel, “The God of Small Things,” won the Man Booker Prize in 1997. Her second, “The Ministry of Utmost Happiness,” was shortlisted for it. These books, written two decades apart, capture how India has changed. In addition … Read more
The past few weeks have been challenging for independent media in India. At least nine Indian journalists found themselves facing criminal charges for reporting that police allegedly shot a farmer during protests in … Read more
