The first death reported from Covid-19 in the U.S. occurred about 30 miles from where I read about it, at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, on the last day of February 2020. I was on my way home to New … Read more
Back in October of last year, seven months into the pandemic, life in Delaware, Ohio, a fast-growing exurb outside Columbus, wasn’t exactly normal, but it sure seemed close. A few weeks before the presidential election, maskless people strolled through the … 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
“Can star player Marco Fabián revive the Union’s Latino fan base? Show me some cariño (affection), they say.” That was the headline for an April 2019 Spanish-language multimedia feature in The Philadelphia Inquirer about Mexican soccer … Read more
Charlie Warzel is an Opinion writer at large at The New York Times, where he writes about the intersection of technology, media, and politics. For the Times and in his prior role as a senior technology reporter … Read more
For many health reporters, reporting on the coronavirus started long before most Americans realized the devastating impact it would have on their daily lives. Declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020, … 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
I never set out to cover wars. What I wanted was to report overseas, understand foreign lands, explore how the world worked. But my timing was off — or perhaps it was just right. It was the summer of 2001 … Read more
I am one of a handful of openly disabled journalists. I have had to actively find every other disabled journalist I know. Some of us are closeted. It’s impossible to know, at least right now, exactly how many disabled journalists … Read more
Something journalists need to better convey to our audiences: Because of demographic realities, prioritizing age in Covid-19 vaccination efforts is akin to prioritizing white Americans. White people live longer on average than other racial groups, which is partly why … Read more