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The Kicker — 335 episodes
Kenya Hunter took a terrifying leap out of journalism. She couldn’t be happier.
Twenty Years of Food Blogs: Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman has never needed AI to develop a recipe.
What Went Wrong: A first-time editor in chief reflects on a startup that didn’t work
Welcome to Hell: A site with personality big enough for the city it covers.
Why Do You Have to Run from Us? Local reporters are struggling to get answers from the politicians they cover.
No Fanboys Need Apply: Wired bares real teeth.
Sports Illustrated’s Emma Baccellieri on covering the changing world of women’s basketball.
How Documented is reinventing immigration coverage.
The Old Playbook of Power and Influence Is Different Now
The Globe’s Emily Sweeney breaks out of Boston.
How Elon Musk is colonizing the future.
Taking Back Saturday: “We’re sports people. We like to score.”
Student, Teacher: Eric Gustafson on fighting for journalistic integrity at every level.
The Inside Look: Chatting with the New York Times’ trust editor.
Lessons from an Early-Career Journalist
A Look Back at Covering Gaza for the Post
Profit or Nonprofit? A Debate over Journalism’s Future
The Letter of the Law, and the Law in Practice
Outlier Media Reimagines What Local News Can Be
A Veteran of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—and its Long Strike—Prepares for What’s Next
How the Gawker Trial Was the Gateway to Trump: Examining a political legacy, ten years on.
Defector’s Jasper Wang and His Unvarnished Truth
Why You Should Never Marry a Journalist—and Other Lessons from Decades in Media
Jay Rosen on the Digital Revolution That Wasn’t
Ben Smith Isn’t Afraid of the Future
How Silicon Valley Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oligarchs
The Future of Journalism After Gaza
Douglas Rushkoff on Being the Intellectual Dominatrix of Billionaire Tech Bros
Journalism 2050 - Trailer
Margaret Sullivan Takes a New Look at Journalism Ethics
Chicago’s Block Club Is Ready for ICE
Elle Reeve on the Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect’s Inscrutable Memes
Garrett Graff Thinks the Press Should Be Taking Trump’s Health Much More Seriously
Hind Hassan Is Sorry We Didn’t Do More to Make Journalism Safe
Will the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Break MAGA Media?
What’s the Matter with the BBC?
The Kicker Live: Branko Brkic Wants Journalists to Wake Up
The Kicker Live: Arwa Damon on Leaving CNN and Telling Stories from Gaza
The Kicker Live: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on American Misadventures in the Middle East
What’s the Point of Investigating Trump?
‘I Try to Find the Question That People Cannot Squirm Out Of’: An Interview with Nashville’s Phil Williams
‘The Threat Is Very Real’: NPR’s Katherine Maher on the Fight to Save Public Media
Inside El Salvador’s Dystopian Prison Network
Kai Ryssdal Was America’s Economic Voice of Reason This Week
Carlos Watson Goes Free: A Surprising Coda to the CJR Podcast
Molly White Knows You Don’t Understand Crypto
The Legal War on Journalism
The Kicker, the Masseuses, and the Price of Doing Sports Journalism
A Warning from a Hungarian Journalist: ‘Brace Yourself for the Worst’
CJR’s Jon Allsop on the Return of the Trump Whirlwind
Coda’s Natalia Antelava on Meta, Trump, and How Journalism Can Survive 2025
The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 3: The Verdict and the Pain
The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 2: Built on a Bluff
The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 1: Truth and Mythmaking
Coming Soon: The Unraveling of Ozy Media
How Trump Won the Latino Vote: A Deep Dive with CJR Contributor Jack Herrera
Martin Baron on Jeff Bezos, the Post, and the role of presidential endorsements
How Trump’s team could craft ‘the narrative’ after the election: NBC’s Ryan Reilly on 2020, and the road ahead
Hell Gate's Chris Robbins on a manic news cycle in New York
The power of uncomfortable ideas: Jina Moore Ngarambe on her time at Guernica
‘That’s how you run a debate!’: 9News’s Kyle Clark on holding politicians accountable
The long, destructive path of fire: Talking to Source NM’s Patrick Lohmann about a never-ending wildfire season
1968 all over again? Heather Hendershot and Ted Koppel on a year for the media to remember.
Kamala Harris steps up: Politico’s Eugene Daniels on a wild month of news
Spanish-speaking journalism…in Iowa: A conversation with Lorena Lopez
What did we know and when? Alex Thompson on investigating Biden’s mental decline
Not even a ‘no comment’: Paul Farhi on the media’s historic struggles with relevance
Staying “scrupulously neutral”: Steve Herman on covering the White House in the age of Trump
How Israeli Journalists Cover Their Own Country
Crisis at Columbia: A Conversation with Jelani Cobb
'Inside Wagner': Video journalism unmasks Russia’s secretive mercenary group
Josh Fine: How to Revive Investigative Sports Reporting in the Age of the Athlete
Alissa Quart: on reimagining reporting on a recession
Svitlana Oslavska: On Documenting a War on Her Home Front
How Authoritarians Erase the Past
Hearts and Minds Media
Feven Merid: On Jacaranda Nigeria Limited
Jeff Gerth on the press versus the president
FT's Rana Foroohar: What the Davos Crowd Doesn't See
Jon Allsop Returns. Plus, What We’re Watching in 2023
The Tow Center’s Emily Bell: Musk’s Twitter is “openly hostile” to journalists. What should we do?
Introducing Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast
The Guardian’s David Smith: Covering a new chapter of Trump
Ross Barkan’s Notes on Election Coverage: Form, Function, and the Future
Bill Keller: On covering the ‘freedom’ beat – prisons and Russia
Nic Haque on Climate Change: 'I became a journalist because of this.'
Nothing to It: How John Bennet went from East Texas kid to New Yorker editor
Rebecca Traister: Abortion, a case study in media disinterest
Justin Worland: Raising diverse voices on the climate crisis beat
Nina Totenberg: ‘They don’t have to follow Supreme Court precedent anymore’
Columbia’s Jelani Cobb: ‘Everything is on the table’
Elena Kostyuchenko: 'The Russian secret services somehow knew'
Dean Baquet & Joe Kahn: What’s next for the New York Times?
Al Roker: The weather paradigm shift
Jane Lytvynenko: Ukraine’s great ‘prebunk’
Eleanor Beardsley & Igor Kossov: The road out of Ukraine
Stuart Karle: Money and the politicization of press freedom
Eleanor Beardsley: Putin and Biden summon the Cold War
George Packer: A dishonorable ending in Afghanistan
Tonga: Not for sale
Russia, Ukraine, and the front lines of information warfare
The Chicago ed beat: Why do politicians fight back when teachers want to feel safe?
Julie K. Brown, Lucia Osborne-Crowley, and coverage of the Ghislaine Maxwell trial
Twitter on a tightrope
Ian Urbina on Libya, the Outlaw Ocean Project, and the rules of engagement
Deep on the Steele beat: Erik Wemple & Marcy Wheeler
COP26: Who do we edit out of the climate crisis?
What does the Facebook data dump mean?
On the trail of ‘pink slime’
Balls and Strikes: How to cover the Supreme Court’s “super-majority”
Jon Allsop on Mehdi Hasan’s transatlantic rise
The Wall Street Journal’s stubborn conservatism
Larry Fink: Vulgarity and Anna Wintour’s Met Gala
September 11: “Inflection Point”
How We Got Here: Genders and Sexualities, host Prof. Alisa Solomon
How We Got Here: Unwelcome to America, host Prof. Nina Alvarez
How We Got Here: Class, host Prof. Dale Maharidge
How We Got Here: Empire, host Prof. Sheila Coronel
How We Got Here: Whiteness, host Prof. Samuel G. Freedman
How We Got Here: The Half-Life of Democracy, host Prof. Jelani Cobb
How We Got Here: Trailer
Special Report: Inside the toxic mediasphere of Black exceptionalism
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the use of power
Errol Louis: Inside City Hall for the New York City primaries
Carole Cadwalladr, Covid-19, and the fight against collective amnesia
The Tokyo Olympics, Naomi Osaka, and the death of sports access
Alden and Tribune: ‘A crash course in capitalism’
How to cover abortion
The view from Tel Aviv
Special Report: Post-truth and the press
Jessica Bruder talks Nomadland
Special Report: Digital journalism didn’t have to be this way
Special Report: The Pirate Radio Capital
‘Survival and science’—our fight against climate silence
‘Violence bait’ —the narrative the Twin Cities tried to build in the mainstream press
Jelani Cobb on the murder of Daunte Wright, the Derek Chauvin trial, and how to tell the whole story
“They forget about you:” The media advice Parkland parents give to mass shooting survivors
America does not know what a mass shooting looks like
Racism, Atlanta, and the race for a narrative
Pandemic: Why is it so hard to say there’s hope?
Toxic: A break in the Cuomo fever dream
Michael Tubbs on the politics of disinformation, racism, and news deserts
Myanmar Now: How to run a paper in the middle of a coup
Kathleen Belew and the white power groundswell
GameStop, Reddit, and who hacked the system
A White House correspondent charts the changing of the guard
What Covid reporters can learn from Hiroshima
How will Trump’s followers fight for air time?
Five lost lives
A New York City principal sick with COVID-19 for the second time, and the story the press is missing
Can unions make newsrooms inclusive?
New vaccines, same story
Public Editors: Why even good reporting no longer impacts the vote
Masha Gessen on Trump's bid for autocracy
David Remnick and the View from Trump’s Fifth Avenue
Election 2020 — Why the idea of a return to normal is so dangerous
E Jean Carroll puts Trump’s survivors in charge
Physicians on the air
COVID at the White House, voter disinformation, and how to report around the propaganda
What was the Notorious RBG like as a source?
“Eugenics” in Georgia
We were all raised here: Rochester, Daniel Prude, and a terrible breach of trust
“Like shooting a gun in the dark” — a New York City principal and the education beat
When did we separate politics and the mail?
How to cover an election that isn’t there
Stephen Sackur and Interviewing Trump
Imagining a new world
Great escape: Nicholson Baker lets YouTube take the wheel
Why police defunding is not an election story
Ed Yong on COVID-19 and American fatalism
Imperfect victims: Mental illness & police brutality
Wesley Morris—Four hundred years in one line of music
Black deaths, Black protest
MSNBC’s identity crisis
Indian Country: Behind the monolith
A break from the pandemic: the bizarre invasion of Venezuela
How did medical masks become a signal?
The hunger for COVID-19 and climate crisis coverage
Liz Bruenig on covering spirituality and death in a plague year
Prisoners trapped in the path of COVID-19
A visit to an ER COVID-19 unit gives new perspective on pandemic data
COVID-19, communities in need
Local media and COVID-19: the canary in the coalmine
When the circus comes to town: The Storm Lake Times in Iowa
A war correspondent covers the climate crisis
Family leave and the diversity edge
Coronavirus, China’s press, and the disappearance of Chen Quishi
Keeping the faith
Guns, Puerto Rico, & American labor
Dexter Filkins and how to cover the Soleimani assasination
Carole Cadwalladr and disinformation at the ballot box
When facts can’t help
Brazil’s gold boom and the war for the rainforest, with Jon Lee Anderson
The death penalty—myth, propaganda, and truth
CJR public editors: One year out from 2020
Can Condé Nast’s empire rise again?
Jon Allsop on Ukraine, Brexit, and the danger of dumbing down
Rule of fear—Carlotta Gall reports on the war behind the wall
‘The more American your life is, the more vulnerable you become’
Impeachment and how Trump exposed the flaws in journalism
The Financial Times follows the money on the climate crisis
Climate collaboration—three hundred outlets, one billion viewers
One hyperlocal reporter and 400,000 NYCHA residents
Bahamian media and the fight for Hurricane relief
After Reuters—Myanmar’s other reporters
Jeffrey Epstein on background
America does not know what a mass shooting looks like
Blackouts, politics, and the call for a new beat
Bob Garfield’s plan to save America
Fear at the border
MSNBC Public Editor: It will take more than one salvo for Kamala Harris to take down Joe Biden
Four months in, BuzzFeed’s union waits for recognition
Public Editor Emily Tamkin on CNN’s underqualified pundits
When Newsweek flew the Watergate transcripts to New York by “pigeon”
Podcast: As 2020 approaches, ‘orphan counties’ struggle for local, relevant news
Journalist Nick Pinto on the impossibility of covering the NYPD
Journalist Anat Kamm on life after being sentenced for leaking
International press access in Venezuela
Covering the Green New Deal
Pulitzer winner Darrin Bell—‘In a tyrannical kingdom, only the jester can tell the truth’
Podcast: In conversation with 2019 Pulitzer Prize winner Susanne Craig
An editor murdered in Kashmir signals the erosion of press freedom
Podcast: In conversation with Susan Smith Richardson from the Center for Public Integrity
Mueller, Barr, and what journalism can do when the judicial system fails us
Podcast: Clerk who took over for racist Ala. editor speaks
Podcast: Adam Moss and David Haskell on the transfer of power at New York
Podcast: What counts as journalism?
Heather Heyer’s mother: ‘I knew the press was coming’
Podcast: Who is going to pay for journalism?
Getting to the truth in the Trump interview
Podcast: Should governments pay ransom for journalists?
Layoffs and the argument for civic media
Podcast: In conversation with Jill Abramson on her new book, Merchants of Truth
Podcast: Slate charts its survival through the digital winter
Podcast: How did the media handle Trump’s Oval office address?
Podcast: A look back at 2018
The Washington Post starts a daily news podcast in a saturated market
Mathew Ingram on the downfall of digital media
Gisele Regatao on NPR’s accent bias
David Little on putting out a paper during the Paradise fire
Jelani Cobb and Lydia Polgreen on race, politics, and the media
How bad will this get?
Saudi journalists grapple with Khashoggi's death
Brazil’s upcoming elections and the echoes of Trump in 2016
#MeToo reporting, one year after Weinstein
Reporting on Trump’s business past with David Cay Johnston
On Kavanaugh coverage and whether we’ve reached peak podcast
On fallen men and the mystery of Tucker Carlson
On Bob Woodward’s sources and journalism in Iraq
Woodward on Trump; press crackdowns in Myanmar
Covering John McCain’s death and the politics of ESPN
Emily Bell on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s press ban & Jack Dorsey’s press tour
Were all the free press editorials worth it?
Perils of the internet, from Alex Jones’s ban to Sarah Jeong’s tweets
Facebook sets its own narrative. Plus, press hatred flares at Trump rallies
The local news death spiral. Plus, the Cohen–Trump tapes.
A new era for the press after Helsinki?
Breaking down coverage of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory
How media pressure forced Trump’s hand on border policy
Platforms and publishers
Let’s talk about class and journalism
Taking the buyout
Can the marriage between Facebook and journalism be saved?
A unified campaign against Alden Global Capital
Rukmini Callimachi on covering ISIS
A Tale of Two Tariffs
The Zuckerberg Chronicles
CNN’s Nima Elbagir on her investigation into Libya's slave trade
Is journalism a form of activism?
Paul Ford on the intersection of blockchain and journalism
Kim Masters on #MeToo coverage; Susan Orlean on finding stories
A new generation of native voices
The Facebook Armageddon
Women in the workplace
Threats to journalism
The Twitter bot economy
Slate’s ‘pivot to words’
Untangling the Facebook mess
Reddit, Michael Wolff, and “media men” list
The year in journalism
The popularity of "Cat Person"
Jezebel’s new EIC on feminist reporting after Weinstein
A dive into the swamp with Politico Playbook’s Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman
Anti-establishment media in the Trump era
Turning the lens on whiteness when covering race
Jelani Cobb on one year of Trump
The evolution of audio, Facebook’s political reckoning, and civil war at the WSJ
Does Weinstein represent a sea change or just a moment?
From climate change to Facebook
Harvey Weinstein and the media's complicated relationship
Covering the White House with Glenn Thrush & Ben Jacobs
Fake news in a small town
Covering race and racism after Charlottesville
Combat reporting from the field to the home front
Preparing for the worst when covering disasters
Podcast: Hurricane Harvey
The white supremacy beat
The media responds to Charlottesville
Podcast: Venezuela in crisis
Podcast: Tabloids in the age of Trump
The media is bad at covering drugs
Time to rethink the media’s Trump coverage?
“It is, I promise, worse than you think”
Breaking down CNN's Reddit fiasco
What are "women's publications" for?
The journalist and the arms dealer
Megyn Kelly gets trolled
How the Comey/Russia story is playing outside the media bubble
The end of the public editor era at The New York Times
The media’s model for covering terrorist attacks is broken
A week inside the pro-Trump parallel media universe
BuzzFeed News and the 'Upside Down' media
Bret Stephens and the role of columnists
A third generation of 'conservative' media?
Facebook's worst-case scenario
Addicted to war porn
Reckoning with Facebook’s dominance, and CNN's Tanzina Vega on race & inequality
Is the podcast boom good for journalism?
Trump strains the news/opinion divide
Breaking News (a collaboration with BBC World Service)
A Breitbart editor walks into a journalism conference...
Trump's media attacks are getting boring
Spice, Spice baby
The Jake Tapper-Kellyanne Conway showdown
Objectivity and Trump's refugee ban
Avoiding Trump's trap with "alternative facts"
The ethics of BuzzFeed's decision to publish Trump-Russia memos
Fox News and life after Megyn Kelly
Looking back on a tumultuous year in journalism
Richard Deitsch on the state of sports media
Thomas Jefferson on fake news
Michael Rosenwald on the enduring primacy of print
Emily Bell on Facebook and fake news
What we're thankful for in journalism this Thanksgiving
Fake news and Trump's trashing of political norms