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journalism history

Covering up a genitalia remark

Marvin Olasky   |  October 22, 2024

A partisan press at work.

James Madison: “A tax on newspapers” would be “an insidious forerunner to something worse”

John Fea   |  April 3, 2023

About a year ago, Current published Steven Waldman‘s piece “The Return of Local News.” Waldman is the president and cofounder of Report for America, an initiative of the GroundTruth Project. He also serves as chair of the Rebuild Local News Coalition. […]

The “American Studier” tackles the history of investigative journalism

John Fea   |  July 18, 2022

I am a regular reader of Ben Railton‘s blog “American Studier.” Last week he took-up the history of investigative journalism with pieces on Ida B. Wells, A.C. Thompson, David Halberstam, Ida Tarbell, Nellie Bly,and Fanny Fern. It’s a great little […]

Bob Woodward and the copy machine

John Fea   |  June 9, 2022

Last Sunday night we watched the first two episodes of CNN’s documentary on John Dean and Watergate. I am looking forward to the last two episodes this weekend. It’s good. So needless to say, a recent Washington Post piece on […]