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Access Denied Ashton Lattimore Jun 22, 2022

Anti Abortion Extremists Are Ready to Go After Journalists

Ashton Lattimore Jun 22, 2022

The National Right to LIfe Committee’s model law puts journalists and outlets who cover abortion squarely into legal crosshairs. And it’s just the latest in a long history of tactics used to silence coverage of injustice and marginalized people.

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Pressing Issues Parker Molloy Apr 13, 2022

Opinion Journalism Is Broken

Parker Molloy Apr 13, 2022

The goal of newspapers is to inform the public. But increasingly, they are publishing opinion pieces as fact, misleading and confusing readers, and undermining their own agenda—and quite possibly, our democracy.

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Pressing Issues Magdi Jacobs Sep 27, 2021

What the Afghanistan Coverage Reveals About American Media

Magdi Jacobs Sep 27, 2021

Journalism on the Afghanistan withdrawal often suffered from missing context, tacit assumptions, over-editorializing, and emotion at the expense of nuance.

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Pressing Issues Allison Hantschel Sep 14, 2021

Big Media Can’t Hold Itself Accountable

Allison Hantschel Sep 14, 2021

A case study of past 9/11 news coverage reveals a press corp stuck in its ways, bound to casting leaders as heroes despite their faults and drawing false equivalencies that fail the public.

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Pressing Issues Karen K. Ho Jan 30, 2019

Journalism Is In Crisis. Can We Save It?

Karen K. Ho Jan 30, 2019

Now more than ever, we need the media to seek truth, report facts, and hold those in power accountable. But without a major overhaul, is the press even up to the job?

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Pressing Issues Amy Westervelt May 24, 2018

Hey, Elon Musk, Journalism Is Not PR

Amy Westervelt May 24, 2018

The Tesla CEO is calling for a credibility rating system for journalists. What he doesn't know about the media is … a lot.

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Pressing Issues Amy Westervelt Apr 29, 2018

Michelle Wolf’s WHCD Roast Was Exactly What Access Journalism Deserves

Amy Westervelt Apr 29, 2018

Journalists defending Sarah Sanders as a "victim" of a smoky-eye joke don't care about her. They just don’t like being called out for their incompetence at covering the Trump administration.

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Pressing Issues Tal Abbady Mar 7, 2018

The New Yorker Has a Byline Problem

Tal Abbady Mar 7, 2018

How is it that the magazine that helped grow the #MeToo movement is failing to represent women and people of color in its pages, and especially on staff?

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The Well Actually Andrea Grimes Feb 21, 2018

Trump Doesn’t Mend Fences. He Burns Them Down

Andrea Grimes Feb 21, 2018

The president has agreed to attend a media-sponsored event and suddenly news outlets are gushing that it's a possible truce. Now, when has Trump ever been kind to the press?

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Pressing Issues Amy Westervelt Feb 8, 2018

To Save Journalism, We Must Pay For It

Amy Westervelt Feb 8, 2018

Trump outrage has been good for independent media. But can they turn that into a sustainable new business model?