CNN fired him because he violated journalistic “standards and practices” by helping craft his brother Andrew’s response to sexual harassment charges. Here is Edwards Helmore at The Guardian: But the larger question concerns to what extent US cable news has […]
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Robert Caro talks to journalism students about writing
Alex Shepherd recently accompanied some CUNY graduate students in journalism during a visit to the Robert Caro exhibition at the New York Historical Society. Here is his piece at The New Republic: You can sense Robert Caro’s disappointment after he […]
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof is leaving The New York Times
The New York Times columnist who wrote about Jim Wallis, “The Daily Me,” Billy Graham’s granddaughter, Trump evangelical Rick Joyner, progressive Christianity, Jimmy Carter‘s faith, Timothy Keller, professors and the public, and the humanities is leaving his post. He may […]
Andrew Cuomo vs. the Albany Times Union
As a journalism buff (I had a subscription to the Columbia Journalism Review in high school), I really enjoyed Azi Paybarah’s piece at The New York Times. Here is a taste of “‘Ugh’: Life at Andrew Cuomo’s Hometown Newspaper”: Casey […]
How is The Atlantic weathering the post-Trump/post-COVID-19 reality?
During the Trump administration, The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog was getting about 10,000 readers a day. That number has declined since the 2020 presidential election. The blog lost some readers when it became part of Current, but the […]
Well, I guess the University of North Carolina blew that one
Did you hear that the University of North Carolina finally gave tenure to former New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones? Hannah-Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the controversial 1619 Project. After North Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media […]
Local journalism is “civic infrastructure”
Over the weekend I wrote a piece here at Current arguing that there was historical precedent for thinking about infrastructure development as something larger than just roads and bridges. I quoted John Quincy Adams’s first annual message to Congress. Here […]
Nikole Hannah-Jones of 1619 Project fame joins the faculty of the University of Carolina at Chapel Hill
Here is the Associated Press: Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones will join the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s journalism school in July as the Knight Chair in Race and Investigative Journalism. Hannah-Jones, who covers […]
The Washington Post Magazine is looking for local stories
Here: The Washington Post Magazine is looking for journalists to contribute to a special issue about the diminished state of local and community news in the United States. Our goal is not to report on the state of local journalism, […]
Local journalism and infrastructure spending
Can infrastructure spending save local journalism in the United States? I sure hope so. Check out Osita Nwanevu’s piece at The New Republic: …the administration’s push for a more capacious definition of infrastructure should encourage us to think even more […]
All eight Ivy League newspapers have women editors
This is a first. Here is a taste of Nhuquynh Nguyen‘s and Liana Slomka’s piece at The Daily Princetonian: For the first time, women hold the highest editorial positions at all eight Ivy League papers. The path to leadership, and […]