The news that Elon Musk was actually going through with the purchase of Twitter came as a genuine surprise to me. From the start I somewhat assumed Musk was throwing his money and influence around, hoping to affect change at … Read more
Journalists face physical dangers when they are out on the field. But they are also increasingly dealing with trolling, doxing, and death threats online — especially women and journalists of color. Online harassment can undermine journalists’ ability to do their … Read more
Elsie Robinson was not simply one of the 20th century’s most prominent women journalists: “I am not a columnist. I am a factory,” Robinson wrote to her editor at Hearst. “You’ve not been getting a feature. You have been getting … Read more
“I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.” That quote by Belgian writer Georges Simenon hung above my 10th grade English teacher’s desk when I was in high school in Dubai, … Read more
In writing about Sarah Palin and her 2022 bid for Congress, T.A. Frank made a promise to readers — and to himself. A past Palin critic, Frank set out on the reporting with “an avowedly open mind,” as he … Read more
For one day in March 2022, an unimposing container at the Ušivak refugee camp for migrants, about 14 miles from Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, was transformed into a newsroom. Almost a dozen migrants sat in a circle, … Read more
In April 2020, as the pandemic was raging across the United States, Ed Yong noticed that many people he interviewed felt exhausted. They worked in pandemic preparedness or emergency response before the virus was officially found in the United States. Read more
Days after the U.S. Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, declaring a constitutional right to abortion no longer existed, news outlets responded with stories suggesting how this landmark decision could be a boon for those seeking to adopt. And people … Read more
As a journalist for the United Press, Wallace Carroll reported on some of the 20th century’s most significant headlines. After covering the League of Nations for over a decade, Carroll took the post of UP’s London bureau chief at the … Read more
When Reporters Without Borders released its latest World Press Freedom Index in May, the findings were grim: In more than 130 countries, the situation for journalists was classified as being “problematic” or worse, and the number of countries … Read more