On Tuesday, 153 of the most prominent journalists, authors, and writers, including J. K. Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Brooks, published an open call for civility in Harper’s Magazine. They ...
Screenshot from the editor’s note appended to the Wall Street Journal’s initial coverage of the bullet’s inscriptions. Photo of Wall Street Journal corporate headquarters by John Wisniewski via Flickr ...
A Jersey Bee youth media workshop held at Rutgers University-Newark last year focused on producing a “Student’s Guide to School Board Elections.” Photo courtesy of Nikki Villafane for the Jersey Bee, ...
Inserted between the pages of the Texas Observer’s Nov./Dec. edition, mailed to readers two months late, was a letter explaining that delivery had been delayed to put together a special, ...
This piece is part of the column series ‘The Case for Movement Journalism‘. Read other column installments here. These purposes for journalism make up a kind of draft “theory of change” for movement ...
In late January, the Washington D.C. Court of Appeals moved to reinstate Felicia Sonmez’s lawsuit against the Washington Post, finding some merit to Sonmez’s claims that the paper illegally ...
Residents of Morristown, N.J. gather with journalists at a 2017 Free Press event to discuss how to strengthen local news. Photo courtesy of Timothy Karr, illustration work by Erik Rodriguez. This is ...
The logo of The 51st overlaid onto a photo of the newsroom’s six co-founders. From top left clockwise: Natalie Delgadillo, Abigail Higgins, Colleen Grablick, Maddie Poore, Eric Falquero, and Teresa ...
From left to right: An early Federal Communications Commission licensing card given to KDKA; early Radio Corporation of America speaker; Rufus P. Turner at his radio; excerpt of Kerner Commission’s ...
While the distortion of government data isn’t new, the Trump administration has taken this to a new level, as the Washington Post aptly chronicles: disappearing data about climate, sexual orientation ...
This story originally appeared in Molloy’s newsletter, The Present Age, and is republished here with permission. A new Media Matters report confirms what many of us have suspected for years: the right ...
If you believe the headlines, there is an all-encompassing conflict in the United States with two distinguishable sides. The shorthand for this fight is the “culture war.” And apparently we’re all ...