When the pandemic hit, Emily Brindley and Alex Putterman, two young journalists at the Hartford Courant, were taken off their usual beats to report on Covid-19. What was supposed to be just a few days of a pivot quickly … Read more
In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd and the increased prominence of the Black Lives Matter movement, editors across the country have made a concerted effort to hire more Black reporters, include more Black authoritative voices, and … 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
What if the people storming the Capitol on January 6 had been Black? Newsrooms around the U.S. posed that question as largely white pro-Trump rioters and white supremacists, incited by the president himself, stormed the Capitol, … Read more
Chicago is a city of immigrants. Over 1.6 million of them live in the metropolitan Chicago region I call home. And nearly one-third of households in Cook County, Illinois, include one or more immigrants. Yet, Chicago’s local … Read more
When political writer Seema Mehta of the Los Angeles Times hit the trail to cover Election Day voting in Michigan, she had some new equipment in her bag: Gas mask. Helmet. Goggles. “It was a little surreal,” she says. Read more
Errin Haines is editor-at-large for The 19th*, a nonprofit news outlet covering the intersection of women, politics, and policy. Launched amidst the coronavirus pandemic and a national reckoning on race in August … Read more
On Monday, October 19, Votebeat published its very first story, the culmination of a frenzied sprint to do our part to ensure a trusted and well-run election. Created by Chalkbeat, Votebeat is … Read more
In the weeks following the 2016 election, Sinclair Lewis had been dead for as long as he’d lived — 65 years — but there he was on the bestseller list in Amazon’s Classic Literature section. His … Read more
David Lauter, Washington bureau chief at the Los Angeles Times, is not preparing for Election Day — he is preparing for election week, or even election weeks. Most election cycles at the paper have followed a more succinct timeline: Political … Read more