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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?