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Changes at Der Spiegel, soul-searching in German media
A little more than three months ago, Der Spiegel, Germany’s leading news magazine, was rocked by news that Claas Relotius, one of its star reporters, had fabricated much of his award-winning reporting for the magazine. Relotius, 33, had invented sources and stories from whole cloth, claiming to have met and interviewed people who either didn’t...
Why disabled journalists should report on disability
Early last year, I published a story about my life with chronic illness and disability. I thought I did well, and used the correct terms to describe myself and other people with disabilities in a respectful and truthful way. But after my piece was edited it unexpectedly featured a teaser, which I first saw when...
Collusion by any other name
Copies of the report by Robert Mueller have been distributed, like flashlights during a deep fog. What we’ve made out so far, and will continue to see, is a landscape of not only the new but also what had been there all along—what we’d become accustomed to seeing only through the obscured view of heavy...
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Did William Barr, the attorney general, mislead in his summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report? Will whistleblowers, even news outlets, be exposed in the document? Did the press get ahead of itself in reporting on Trump and Russia? The redacted Mueller report has now been officially released. As reporters scrambled to read and make...
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I wrote a story that became a legend. Then I discovered it wasn’t true.
In 2003, with what felt like an angel on my shoulder, I wrote a story that became a myth. It was a once-in-a-lifetime piece. An emblem for human courage in the face of adversity, and an inspiration for motorcyclists like...
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Response to news reports of a Trump-ordered boycott of the Correspondents' Dinner: #We’re looking forward to an enjoyable evening of celebrating the First Amendment and great journalists past, present, and future." - Olivier Knox, President of the #WHCA
— WHCA (@whca) April 23, 2019The New Statesman asked me to write a little bit about Lyra’s work as a journalist.
— Siobhán Fenton (@SiobhanFenton) April 19, 2019
For anyone not familiar with her reporting, I hope it might go a small way in conveying a little of what a tremendous talent we’ve lost https://t.co/Mljf5M2abkThe New York Times will publish a 16-page special print section tomorrow, including summaries & highlights from the paper's annotations of the Mueller Report.
— Michael M. Grynbaum (@grynbaum) April 18, 2019The National Enquirer is being sold for $100 million to James Cohen, CEO of Hudson News https://t.co/iKeDyMCe5G
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) April 18, 2019Like Assange or not, the US affidavit is clearly criminalizing #journalism. This could set a very bad precedent for #pressfreedom in the US and potentially around the world. https://t.co/ApVecWVjOX
— Daniel O'Maley (@domaley) April 17, 2019
