Consider this thought experiment: The problem of _____ [insert problem] will cause major upheavals in life as we know it and possibly extensive deaths in _____ [insert amount of time]. What is the difference between filling in the blanks with … Read more
It’s weird how my Twitter feed these days looks exactly like my Twitter feed from 12 days ago. Homeschooling tips. People doing things on balconies. Animals roaming in emptied cities. War metaphors. Zoom. Camus. I’ve seen all this before. Only … Read more
Among the jarring statistics related to the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 250,000 confirmed cases and more than 10,000 deaths as of Friday, is this: Only 50 percent of Americans trust the information they hear about coronavirus from news media, … Read more
The facts of Maria Ressa’s career are impressive enough: Princeton cum laude, Fulbright Fellow, CNN bureau chief in Manila and Jakarta, CNN’s chief investigative reporter in Asia, author of two books on terrorism, news division head at ABS-CBN, the Philippines’ … Read more
On Tuesday, China announced it would rescind reporting credentials for more than a dozen American journalists. The news felt like a punch in the gut. As many as 13 journalists from The New York Times, The … 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
Reporter Jerry Mitchell’s stories have helped lead to the convictions of Ku Klux Klansmen guilty of some of the nation’s most notorious crimes, including the 1963 assassination of the Mississippi NAACP leader Medgar Evers, the 1963 … Read more
Carolina Guerrero and Daniel Alarcón, the co-founders of the “Radio Ambulante” podcast, started the nonprofit out of their home in Oakland, California in 2012. They wanted to tell longform stories from Latin America in Spanish. “We … Read more
I can’t say with any certainty whether Joe Biden, the current front-runner for the Democratic nomination for president, is in “cognitive decline,” as many journalists and critics have begun to ponder aloud. I can say with certainty that what you … Read more
How can newspapers build a successful reader revenue? This was the question at the heart of my project as Journalist Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. As part of the project, I interviewed 26 executives from … Read more