What Media Owes Us
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Anti Abortion Extremists Are Ready to Go After Journalists
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.
Opinion Journalism Is Broken
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.
What the Afghanistan Coverage Reveals About American Media
Journalism on the Afghanistan withdrawal often suffered from missing context, tacit assumptions, over-editorializing, and emotion at the expense of nuance.
Big Media Can’t Hold Itself Accountable
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.
Journalism Is In Crisis. Can We Save It?
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?
Hey, Elon Musk, Journalism Is Not PR
The Tesla CEO is calling for a credibility rating system for journalists. What he doesn't know about the media is … a lot.
Michelle Wolf’s WHCD Roast Was Exactly What Access Journalism Deserves
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.
The New Yorker Has a Byline Problem
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?