In 2004, speaking at a panel discussion, the late Gwen Ifill characterized the media’s approach to covering people who have gone missing as “missing white woman syndrome.” “If there’s a missing white woman, you’re going to cover that, every day,” Ifill said, to little notice at the time. In the two decades since, the term...
At the end of the eighties, the left wing of the Democratic Party was in bad shape. Democrats had lost five of the six previous presidential elections. Four of those, including the three most recent, had been landslide defeats, with Republicans winning more than four hundred votes in the Electoral College. The 1984 election was...
Most journalists are always searching for the next big story. Ann Wroe, a writer and editor of obituaries for The Economist, never has to. “Death is the only constant in life, so obituary writers will always have content,” she said the other day. Wroe, who is soft-spoken and seventy-one, chooses her words carefully. A trained...
Readers of She Said—the 2019 New York Times best seller from New York Times Pulitzer winners Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, about the Harvey Weinstein scandal—will no doubt be wondering how the movie version streamlined the narrative. What cuts, which concessions to the truth, would have to be made in the name of silver-screen adaptability?...
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