Author Bring Back Retail Campaigning From 1980 through 2008, when I was editor of the Concord (N.H.) Monitor, most presidential candidacies began long before the campaign went national. From fringe to favorite, candidates came to… November 14, 2016 All Journalism is Local Being a political animal, one of my first thoughts the morning after the election was, “Who’s going to run for President now?”You can rest assured that there are a dozen or… November 14, 2016 Lifestyles Lost If you’re looking for something to explain President-elect Donald Trump’s unlikely victory, the signs were everywhere this fall in Millinocket, a northern Maine mill town now without a mill. Trump/Pence… November 13, 2016 Closing Gaps in the Name of Democracy Everyone has a story along the lines of mine. At a family gathering in October, I was chatting with a cousin about the campaign, and, since we didn’t see it… November 13, 2016 Let the Interlopers In I remember the day the Los Angeles Times decided to hire me. I’d been freelancing for the paper out of California’s Central Valley. Ashley Dunn, then the metro editor, came… November 12, 2016 A Tale of Two Filter Bubbles As I sat down to write this, I heard a gunshot. Two seconds later, another shot. Two more seconds, another. Then silence.Six months ago, in Los Angeles, the sound of… November 12, 2016 Lessons from Brexit The failure of journalism and of polling to accurately reflect the electorate is not unique to this U.S. presidential election, or even to America.During the June referendum on Britain’s membership… November 11, 2016 Looking for “Whitelash” The signs that someone like Donald Trump was coming were right there, in online comments lousy with creatively spelled racial slurs that slipped past even the best filters. They were… November 11, 2016 To Win Back Public Trust, Try Bipartisan Reporting and “Bias Editors” It’s not news that a substantial segment of the American population despises the news media.We’ve heard allegations of elitism and bias since our industry’s infancy, though recently donned t-shirts advocating… November 11, 2016 Responding to Our Oral Culture Sometime late last winter, I began to focus closely on what would happen in the primaries on Super Tuesday, March 1, 2016. I realized I really needed to get on… November 11, 2016 Previous 1 … 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 … 429 Next
