I didn’t know it at the time, but my career in journalism began in St. Stephen, South Carolina when I was a 9-year-old boy—the year my hero big brother murdered a man and briefly faced the death … Read more
In “Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future” (PublicAffairs), Hemant Taneja with co-author Kevin Maney examines the forces that are turning a long dominant fundamental of business—economies of … Read more
Once referred to as a one-woman WikiLeaks, Daphne Caruana Galizia was Malta’s most formidable independent journalist, with her blog, Running Commentary, serving as a leading source of investigative reporting in the tiny European island … Read more
Inc. magazine dubbed web guru Tim O’Reilly “The Oracle of Silicon Valley.” Wired magazine called the founder and CEO of the O’Reilly Media publishing and conference business “The Trend Spotter.” So when one of … Read more
In “Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead,” being published November 21 by NYU Press, social scientist Jessica M. Fishman probes a double standard in the U.S. media regarding images of death … Read more
Zeynep Tufekci is a scholar of social movements and the technologies on which they rely. In “Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest,” published May 16 by Yale University Press, she … Read more
In the age of heightened surveillance, the need for—and threat to—watchdog journalism has intensified, with Edward Snowden’s 2013 leak of classified documents signaling what may become a new norm in national security coverage. The impact of surveillance on investigative journalism … Read more
The New Yorker’s cartoons and covers have been well-loved since its founding in 1925. It was Rea Irvin, the first employee (his title was “art editor”), who is responsible for the magazine’s visual character. Irvin created hundreds of New Yorker covers, … Read more