On the morning of April 29, Russian opposition leader and blogger Alexei Navalny appeared in court via video link, fighting the second in a series of legal charges filed against him since the beginning of the year. His appearance was … Read more
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 Journalism at the school, she currently teaches … Read more
Seyward Darby’s book on women in the white nationalist movement, “Sisters in Hate,” grew out of a detailed piece of reporting she published in Harper’s in 2017. But that wasn’t the first place … Read more
The past few weeks have been challenging for independent media in India. At least nine Indian journalists found themselves facing criminal charges for reporting that police allegedly shot a farmer during protests in … Read more
When Yvette Cabrera was reporting an investigative series about undocumented minors in Southern California’s juvenile justice system, who were being referred by the probation department to immigration authorities, she noticed a disturbing pattern. Many of the … Read more
We began Donald Trump’s presidency debating whether it was fair to call lies lies, even though we knew he was the most prolific political liar of modern times. We end it saying forthrightly that the President of … Read more
If a candidate for high office carries a group of voters by more than 30 points, when do we call it “a loss?” When that same candidate flips five states his party lost in the last election, … Read more
While I was writing this, I read that another newspaper closed in Iowa. It’s likely you never heard of it, but the La Porte City Progress Review was 127 years old. You might have heard of The … Read more
President Trump may be leaving office but he and his rhetoric about fake news are here to stay. From the beginning of his presidential campaign, Trump has used the rubric “fake news” to demean and harass journalists; his administration has … Read more
“Nearly everybody I know has been injured, beaten, detained, forced to flee, or has gone into hiding. It is personal. These are my friends. These are my fellow citizens,” says Belarusian journalist Hanna Liubakova. She has been a witness to … Read more