Disruptive and deadly weather extremes have been happening globally at an unprecedented pace, giving rise in recent months to the devastating fires on the Hawaiian island of Maui described as a “total inferno,” flash flooding in the … Read more
The idea of asking for more money after receiving a newsroom job offer at first seemed unfathomable. “You should feel so fortunate to have a full-time opportunity in journalism,” a professor told me in college. Another questioned how I could … Read more
From the assistant editor What would you do if you knew TikTok was tracking your whereabouts? That’s what happened to Forbes tech reporter Emily Baker-White while she was investigating ByteDance, the China-based firm that runs TikTok. But Baker-White’s primary concern was … Read more
Mary Knoblauch, my first full-time editor, died recently. There was a photograph at the wake showing her with a small team of reporters celebrating a series that won some awards. I am one of the reporters in the photo, but … Read more
In August 2014, I was on assignment for TIME to cover the rapid advance of Islamic State fighters from Syria into parts of northern Iraq. Their advance had forced the mass exodus of the local Yazidi population, a religious minority … Read more
From the editor In Hong Kong you can buy a souvenir keychain with “I am a HongKonger” written on it in Chinese characters. Flip the keychain around, though, and the same characters in reverse read: “Add fuel!” “Add fuel!” is a … Read more
In late November, Ravish Kumar, one of India’s leading broadcast journalists, resigned from his job as senior executive editor of New Delhi Television Ltd (NDTV), the last influential network still willing to cover Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government … Read more
Massachusetts lawmakers are considering legislation that advocates say would make it the first state in the nation to levy fees on streaming companies like Netflix in order to help fund community media. The “Act to Modernize Funding For Community Media … Read more
When Forbes tech reporter Emily Baker-White found out last year that ByteDance, the controversial China-based firm that runs the video-sharing platform TikTok, had used the app to track her whereabouts as she covered the company, she knew she was … Read more
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