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Mar 22, 2023 By Pesha Magid

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In early 1981, Barbara Lamont, a reporter at CBS News Radio, stood outside the office of her boss, the news division president, with a request. Lamont, who was forty, had worked at CBS for six years. Before that, she’d been at WNEW-TV and a round-the-clock news radio station called 1010-WINS, both in New York. She’d...

What the Dominion lawsuit reveals about the future of Fox News

Feb 21, 2023 By Bill Grueskin

By most appearances, Fox News is a well-managed, tightly run outfit. It’s America’s most popular cable news channel, thrashing CNN and MSNBC with a prime-time audience of more than two million. It’s highly profitable, as its parent Fox Corp. reported more than $1 billion in net income last fiscal year. But a very different picture...

Anonymous Woman

Dec 6, 2022 By Becca Andrews

At first, she told herself she was being paranoid. The car she’d seen idling outside her home might have belonged to an Uber driver, a food delivery person, a friend of a neighbor. There could be perfectly good reasons for someone to sit in a car on her street, engine running. The second time she...

A reporter’s perilous trip to document war in the Central African Republic

Mar 14, 2023 By Anjan Sundaram

One evening in the fall of 2013, I was at home on Canada’s Atlantic coast with my wife and infant daughter when my phone rang. It was my old friend Lewis, an investigator who documented massacres in the Central African Republic for Human Rights Watch. Lewis was from upper-class Boston and lived in Rwanda, where...

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