Opinion “The struggle against silence in Mexico is a relay race” Today [June 8] marks one week since I returned to Mexico after 10 months in the United States on a Nieman Fellowship. On my first day back, I talked to… June 15, 2017 Marcela Turati What Terry Frei’s Tweet Says about Bigotry and Bias I was thinking about dedicating this column to what happened in New York, with the decision by the Times to jettison its public editor position. But what happened in Denver… June 6, 2017 Issac J. Bailey “The way journalists interact with the communities we cover needs to change” I met Kate Geiger when I was doing a piece for NPR in 2013 about a former GM assembly plant Dayton. She’s worked there most of her career, and when… May 12, 2017 Lewis Raven Wallace Yes, We Need A Special Commission… The media, along with former FBI Director James Comey, helped Donald Trump become president. Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com has detailed why. But it doesn’t take a mathematician to understand that… May 11, 2017 Issac J. Bailey Facebook, Advertisers, and the View from a Daily Editor in Middle America Should advertisers spend more money at local newspapers? The question was up for debate this week after Jim Rutenberg, media columnist for The New York Times, published “Ad Buyers Have… May 10, 2017 Dimitrios Kalantzis Let’s Stop Blaming Facebook and Google and Start Fixing the News Business Yesterday, New York Times media columnist Jim Rutenberg argued that America’s advertisers have a civic obligation to save the news. Not only is he wrong, but he’s giving a free pass… May 8, 2017 Amy Webb A Former Fake News Creator on Covering Fake News I am known by many people as many things, but above all I am a father, a husband, a son, a brother, and by all means, a hard-working, middle-class American.… May 1, 2017 Jestin Coler AI Is Journalism’s Next Big Threat (or Opportunity) Recently I watched a 15-second Burger King commercial, which was designed to trigger my voice-activated Google devices. In the ad, a Burger King employee, standing behind a counter at the… April 24, 2017 Amy Webb Another Under-Covered Trump-Voting Demographic The media are making good on their promise to spend more time in Trumpland, to explore more deeply the animating thoughts of the millions of supposedly previously overlooked Americans who… April 7, 2017 Issac J. Bailey Here Comes Somebody: Journalism and the Trust Economy I think we’re beyond peak fake news pandemic. The early fever of moral panic has abated. Attention is moving from symptoms to cause. And so begins the sober, purposeful work… April 3, 2017 Mark Little Previous 1 … 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 … 74 Next