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The Guardian’s David Smith: Covering a new chapter of Trump

Nov 22, 2022

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Justin Smith and Ben Smith are not related, nor did it seem likely that they’d ever become partners; the first time they met, it didn’t go so well. It was 2008, at Big Nick’s Burger Joint & Pizza Joint Too, a narrow dive on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Ben had picked the place. Justin, with...

‘The Left Edge of the Possible’

Nov 7, 2022 By Robert P. Baird

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...

How Capital B is covering Warnock v. Walker

Dec 5, 2022 By Feven Merid

In Georgia, for more than a week, voters have been standing in line—for hours, in some cases—to cast ballots in the Senate runoff between Raphael Warnock, the Democratic incumbent, and Herschel Walker, his Republican opponent. Across the state, there is a feeling of restlessness. “Senate time is supposed to last six years––there are people who...

How much coverage are you worth?

Nov 3, 2022 By Kyle Pope

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...

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