Featured
The Flood Watcher
On April 30, Eric Sorensen drove along Second Street, in downtown Davenport, Iowa. From his car, he could see the Mississippi River, heavy with spring rain and snowmelt. The winter had been long and dense with precipitation; Sorensen had reported on it daily for WQAD News 8, where he is the morning and midday meteorologist....
Has climate news coverage finally turned a corner?
Some good news, for a change, about climate change: When hundreds of newsrooms focus their attention on the climate crisis, all at the same time, the public conversation about the problem gets better: more prominent, more informative, more urgent. In September, 323 news outlets from across the United States and around the world collaborated to...
Preserving work in a time of vanishing archives
“Nothing disappears on the Internet,” people like to say, but journalists know that’s not necessarily true. Articles frequently disappear when online publications shutter or restructure. The internet is more like an Etch-a-Sketch than a stone engraving—over time, some marks endure, but the rest are swept from the canvas. In August, the online archives of Into,...
Correcting the record
Every #MeToo story contains two traumas: First, the event itself. Then, the story becoming public. A recent New York Magazine cover story compiled the experiences of 25 people who publicly came forward with allegations of sexual harassment and assault—and whose lives were not universally the better for it. Victims might share their stories with the...
Most Recent
Most Popular
Advertisement
The Global Issue
View from Nowhere
A few years ago, on a plane somewhere between Singapore and Dubai, I read Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities (1983). I was traveling to report on the global market for passports—how the ultrawealthy can legally buy citizenship or residence virtually anywhere they...
Business of News
- Indian Country Today joins the Associated Press
- Can a ‘nobody’ make a popular, financially stable podcast?
- The Colorado Sun, one year after the ‘Denver rebellion’
The Magazine
-
The Global Issue
-
The Perception Issue
-
The Race Issue
-
The Jobs Issue
-
The Fear Issue
-
The Trump Issue
-
The Future of Local News
-
The Innovation Issue
-
A Century of Pulitzers
-
An Affectionate Farewell
-
The Cult of Vice
-
The Experiment
-
Steal this Idea
-
Playing the Press
Subscribe Now
You get exclusive member benefits. Journalism gets the support it needs.
Featured
Twitter hates me. The Des Moines Register fired me. Here’s what really happened.
During the seven months I worked as a trending-news reporter for the Des Moines Register, it was my job to write about viral news in Iowa and to frame my stories in ways that would increase their viral potential. My...
America’s growing news deserts
Covering Climate Change
Best Journo Tweets
Wisconsin county resolution aims to criminalize journalism https://t.co/KJKPobhSNk
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) November 11, 2019Employees at Hearst Magazines announced on Monday their plans to form a union, setting off a massive effort across 24 media brands that encompass print and digital staffers in editorial, video, photo, design and social https://t.co/KDfGkQPAbE
— Kerry Flynn 🐶 (@kerrymflynn) November 11, 2019Federal prosecutors accused two former Twitter employees of spying on behalf of Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. https://t.co/HTmBPso5o8
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) November 7, 20195. Update: Two sources familiar with the matter tell me that CBS News has fired the staffer in question. This comes after ABC informed CBS that they had determined who accessed the footage of Amy Robach expressing her frustrations about the Epstein story. https://t.co/OHEoyahppY
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 7, 2019The Fader says it has fired its head of content Eric Sundermann after an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct (@jemaswad / Variety)https://t.co/S73bEE9xzdhttps://t.co/bH4xfvzmqd
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer) November 6, 2019
