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Post-Truth Politics

Post-Truth Politics

In the final hours of the U.S. election, Republican nominee Donald Trump speculated on Fox News that the contest was rigged against him. “There are machines,” he noted. “You put…
November 18, 2016
Let the Interlopers In

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
Lessons from Brexit

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
Why Cannabis Coverage Needs to be a Serious Beat

Why Cannabis Coverage Needs to be a Serious Beat

In early 2014, John Ingold, a longtime reporter for The Denver Post, noticed that the number of parents of young patients registered with the state to gain access to medical…
October 18, 2016
Tech Criticism and Its Discontents

Tech Criticism and Its Discontents

As technology assumes an ever-increasing presence in our lives, deep reporting on technology and nuanced critiques of technology become more important, too. This excerpt from “Toward a Constructive Technology Criticism”…
October 4, 2016
Access, Accountability Reporting and Silicon Valley

Access, Accountability Reporting and Silicon Valley

The first time I visited Facebook’s office in Washington, D.C., I was asked to sign a nondisclosure agreement. I didn’t. Then there was the time I got through an entire…
August 17, 2016
Pulitzer’s Forgotten Classics

Pulitzer’s Forgotten Classics

From the start, the Pulitzer Prizes have sought to recognize journalists for investigating how power works, for holding the powerful to account, and for exposing abuses of power. Yet power…
August 9, 2016
Harry S. Ashmore, NF ’42

Harry S. Ashmore, NF ’42

In a series of anti-segregation editorials, Ashmore criticized Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus for his unwarranted interference in the confrontation over the admission of black students to a Little Rock high…
July 29, 2016
How Bobby Kennedy in 1968 Turned Skeptical Journalists into Believers

How Bobby Kennedy in 1968 Turned Skeptical Journalists into Believers

We all know the gladiatorial press-pol narrative of this year’s presidential campaign: Donald Trump bashes journalists, then banishes them, while Hillary Clinton ducks, parries, and emphatically stays on-message. But a…
July 22, 2016
Joining Forces in the Name of Watchdog Journalism

Joining Forces in the Name of Watchdog Journalism

Michael Braga had reached that point every reporter dreads: He was floundering, without a story idea, and was miserable as a result. It was early 2014, and he and Anthony…
July 20, 2016