The Inequities In #MeToo Reporting
Women journalists are breaking the biggest stories and bringing down powerful abusers. So why are so many men getting the follow-up assignments?
Pressing Issues
Does Money Advice for Women Actually Help?
There’s an increase in finance-related content for young women because they need and want it. But is the advice helpful? Or simply condescending?
Women’s Anger Was Supposed to Be a Reckoning. Why Isn’t it?
The media often minimizes women's rage as a fad, from the #MeToo movement to assault claims against the U.S. president, even by high-profile figures like columnist E. Jean Carroll. Are we on the cusp of revolt, or historical erasure?
The Media Can’t Resist Powerful Liars
Donald Trump turned his fraud into free press and rode the wave of exposure all the way to the White House. But he's hardly the first to play this game—and he won't be the last.
Outrage Is Killing Context
From gun violence to the Mueller report, are knee-jerk reactions and social media #campaigns doing more harm than good?
News Outlets Have Helped Enable the Climate Crisis
The mainstream media mocks the Green New Deal and patronizes young climate activists while taking money from Big Oil and special interests. Is it any wonder the U.S. leads the world in climate denialism?
How the Media Is Gatekeeping Black Writers
Industry buzzwords like “diversity” and “inclusion” are meaningless unless and until newsrooms start hiring more Black and Brown editors and journalists to publish the stories that affect their lives.
We’ve Learned Nothing From Election 2016
News outlets are obsessed with Beto and Buttigieg, but it’s the five veteran female lawmakers running for the Dem presidential nomination who deserve deeper coverage. Where is it?
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?
Without Freedom of the Press, We Are Not Free
Attacks on the press, protected by the First Amendment, are an attack on our individual rights to read, write, and think independently.