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Rebecca Traister: Abortion, a case study in media disinterest

Jul 15, 2022

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The growing culture of censorship by PIO

Aug 3, 2022 By Kathryn Foxhall

In 1981, Cristine Russell, then a health reporter at the Washington Post, asked to interview C. Everett Koop, who was nominated to be surgeon general of the United States. Koop was controversial because of his anti-abortion views, among other things; as Russell recalls it, people in the Department of Health and Human Services insisted that...

An encyclopedia of local anchors who ran for office

Aug 5, 2022 By Jon Allsop

Yesterday, two days after Election Day, the Republican primary for governor of Arizona was called for Kari Lake, a longtime local news anchor turned Trumpian media-basher and election denier. In Tuesday’s edition of this newsletter, I wrote about Lake’s path from local TV to politics, and named several other former local anchors who have trodden...

What Is Political Writing For?

Sep 15, 2021 By Osita Nwanevu

Not long ago, the prevailing opinion among political writers was that Joe Biden would probably never be president. Measured against the other candidates in the crowded 2020 Democratic primary field, it was said, he was too old, too personally and politically compromised, and too removed from the debates of the moment to mount anything more...

A Return to Independent Eritrean Journalism

Jun 29, 2021 By Feven Merid

In 1977, at the age of twenty-five, Seyoum Tsehaye dropped out of college to join the fight for Eritrea’s self-rule. He knew how to use a camera; the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) tasked him with documenting the war. From the front lines, he captured the bloody struggle for freedom during its moments of honor...

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