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Telling Stories in Uncertain Times

Telling Stories in Uncertain Times

I’ve seen this bad movie before—in fact, far too many times: strongmen, whether vicious kingpins or populist leaders bullying reporters in either my native Mexico or across Latin America, authorities…
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…
Relevance over Reach, Value over Volume

Relevance over Reach, Value over Volume

Among journalism’s many failings in this election, our greatest, I think, is this: We in liberal media (let’s admit that much, at least) abandoned and, in turn, were abandoned by…
Rebuilding Local Journalism as an Essential Democratic Force

Rebuilding Local Journalism as an Essential Democratic Force

Many post-election observers have lambasted the national news media, the so-called coastal media elites, for missing the breadth of support for Donald Trump among white working- and lower middle-class voters…
All Journalism is Local

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…
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…
Looking for “Whitelash”

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…

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…
Jill Abramson: “You’ve Got to Get a Younger Generation in the Habit of Reading That Highest-Quality Journalism”

Jill Abramson: “You’ve Got to Get a Younger Generation in the Habit of Reading That Highest-Quality Journalism”

Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times from 2011 to 2014, worked at the Times for 17 years. Now she is writing a political column for The Guardian; teaching…
Public Radio and the Sound of America

Public Radio and the Sound of America

When “Tell Me More,” NPR’s talk show about diversity, was canceled in 2014, NPR’s then-ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos observed that Latinos (16 percent of the U.S. population) hold only 5 percent…