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Jeff Gerth on the press versus the president

Feb 7, 2023 By Emily Russell

CJR · Jeff Gerth on the press versus the president LISTEN NOW: Apple or Spotify Last week, the Columbia Journalism Review published a four-part investigation into the media’s fraught relationship with Donald Trump. In this episode of The Kicker, Jeff Gerth, who authored the report, talks to Kyle Pope, CJR’s editor and publisher, about the...

‘Officials Say…’

Dec 3, 2019 By Alexandria Neason

It was unseasonably warm the day Joshua Beal, a twenty-five-year-old Black man from Indianapolis, was killed by a white police officer in Chicago. Beal was in town to attend a cousin’s funeral. Around three o’clock in the afternoon of November 5, 2016, a long procession of mourners lined up their cars at the exit of...

Peer to Peer

Dec 6, 2022 By Mary Retta

In May, when a leaked draft opinion indicated that the Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade, Alison Turkos, an activist focused on abortion and survivor justice, was overwhelmed with messages. People wanted advice, reassurance, straightforward information. Many just wanted to help. “What happens during a moment of crisis is, people decide, ‘This is the...

The Courts Beat

Feb 2, 2021 By Jaeah Lee

Nate Gartrell flipped through a fat stack of pages. “I’m basically just looking for homicides,” he said. Every week, Gartrell, a thirty-one-year-old reporter for the East Bay Times, visits the records office of the Contra Costa County criminal courthouse in Northern California, where a young clerk greets him with a smile and two sets of...

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