Opinion

Why News Organizations Should Buy Twitter

Why News Organizations Should Buy Twitter

Since its founding, Twitter has always lost money—more than $2 billion since 2011 alone. Oddly enough, Twitter now faces the same problem as newsrooms did back in the day when…
When Is A Remark Racist?

When Is A Remark Racist?

In an increasingly polarized world, journalists need to write with context and precision about race
Why BuzzFeed Was Wrong to Publish the Trump Dossier

Why BuzzFeed Was Wrong to Publish the Trump Dossier

Journalists commit a public disservice when we treat unverified facts as fact

Should Newsrooms Follow Where WikiLeaks Leads?

Journalists need to broaden our understanding of ethics beyond individual stories
The challenge Trump poses for Jewish media

The challenge Trump poses for Jewish media

How do Jewish journalists cover a politician who positions himself as staunchly pro-Israel and boasts deep personal Jewish ties but is also championed by anti-Semites?
Journalists Need to Better Explain What Journalists Do … Including Me

Journalists Need to Better Explain What Journalists Do … Including Me

If journalists don’t inform the public about what we do and why, we’re ceding the debate to those looking to vilify and delegitimize the press at a dangerous moment in…
Bring Back Retail Campaigning

Bring Back Retail Campaigning

The old retail model of campaigning—spending time listening to voters in small settings—would benefit journalism, too
A Tale of Two Filter Bubbles

A Tale of Two Filter Bubbles

Leaving stereotypes about Trump voters behind in a move from the L.A. Times to rural Maine
To Win Back Public Trust, Try Bipartisan Reporting and "Bias Editors"

To Win Back Public Trust, Try Bipartisan Reporting and “Bias Editors”

If you think you have nothing to learn from reporters working elsewhere, you’re part of the problem
Responding to Our Oral Culture

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…