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The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert: “No Way To Fight Climate Change Without Adhering to the Principles of Environmental Justice”

The New Yorker’s Elizabeth Kolbert: “No Way To Fight Climate Change Without Adhering to the Principles of Environmental Justice”

Elizabeth Kolbert has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999 with a focus on environmental issues. Her 2015 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History,”…
June 29, 2021
Futuro Media Group’s Maria Hinojosa: “It Was Out of Frustration that Futuro Was Built”

Futuro Media Group’s Maria Hinojosa: “It Was Out of Frustration that Futuro Was Built”

Journalist, entrepreneur, and 2020 I.F. Stone Award winner Maria Hinojosa has focused on issues facing historically marginalized communities throughout her three decades in the field. In 1992, she launched Latino USA,  one of…
April 22, 2021
Emily Bell Says it's Time to Reframe How Journalists Report on Truth, Misinformation

Emily Bell Says it’s Time to Reframe How Journalists Report on Truth, Misinformation

A leading thinker and commentator on digital journalism, Emily Bell is the founding director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School. Also the Leonard Tow Professor of…
April 8, 2021
New York Times’ Charlie Warzel on the Attention Economy, Coverage of QAnon, Privacy, and More

New York Times’ Charlie Warzel on the Attention Economy, Coverage of QAnon, Privacy, and 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…
March 16, 2021
Arundhati Roy: “We Live in an Age of Mini-Massacres”

Arundhati Roy: “We Live in an Age of Mini-Massacres”

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…
February 26, 2021
Criminal Justice Reporter Wesley Lowery Asks, What if the Process Itself is Unfair?

Criminal Justice Reporter Wesley Lowery Asks, What if the Process Itself is Unfair?

Wesley Lowery was just 25 when The Washington Post won a Pulitzer for the newspaper’s “Fatal Force” project in 2016. Lowery was the driving force behind the project, a database…
February 10, 2021
The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos: “Approach Washington with a Healthy Degree of Alarm”

The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos: “Approach Washington with a Healthy Degree of Alarm”

Evan Osnos is a staff writer covering politics and foreign affairs at The New Yorker and the author of “Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now” (Scribner,…
February 2, 2021
Cultural Competency and Why It Is Important to Covering Today’s America

Cultural Competency and Why It Is Important to Covering Today’s America

Farai Chideya is a journalist whose career has encompassed academia as well as broadcast and print journalism. She has worked at news organizations including NPR, CNN, ABC News, FiveThirtyEight, and…
December 16, 2020
Eric Deggans on How to Cover Race Without Perpetuating Prejudice

Eric Deggans on How to Cover Race Without Perpetuating Prejudice

As a media critic, author, and educator, Eric Deggans is one of the nation’s foremost commentators on matters relating to race and the media. NPR’s TV critic — the first…
December 14, 2020
CNN, New York Times Journalists on What’s Not Normal about This Election (Hint: Just About Everything)

CNN, New York Times Journalists on What’s Not Normal about This Election (Hint: Just About Everything)

Political reporters Lisa Lerer and John Harwood know a thing or two about covering campaigns. Lerer, NF ’18, who reports on campaigns, elections, and political power for The New York…
October 29, 2020