Jon Allsop is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic, among other outlets. He writes CJR’s newsletter The Media Today. Find him on Twitter @Jon_Allsop.
The world we inhabit is the result of a chain of decisions, none of them inevitable. Journalism can help inform those decisions and how people think about them.
“This is not a campaign to protect innocent people. It is about getting the media to pull punches or shut up altogether when powerful people’s interests are on the line.”
