Did The Washington Post just become The Wall Street Journal? It sure seems like it. Here is Michael Schaffer at Politico: On Wednesday morning, outgoing Washington Post Opinion Editor David Shipley huddled with his soon-to-be former staff. Barely an hour earlier, owner […]
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40th Anniversary: A rare press victory and a longer loss
That time the pro-abortion Austin American Statesman did a hit job on a local crisis pregnancy center.
50th Anniversary: A unique newspaper selfie
A brief Golden Anniversary memory of a brave journalist, David Shaw.
Is for-profit journalism sustainable?
The editors of Current talk about this all the time and we hope to make some of our own news on this front soon. In the meantime, Stephen Prager makes some good points in his recent piece at Current Affairs […]
New York newspapers on the Trump verdict
“A magazine about America in the form of a 19th-century newspaper”
I just learned about County Highway. It’s a “magazine about America in the form of a 19th century newspaper. According to the site’s website: County Highway is a 20-page broadsheet produced by actual human beings, containing the best new writing […]
James Madison: “A tax on newspapers” would be “an insidious forerunner to something worse”
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 Author’s Corner with Samantha Barbas
Samantha Barbas is Professor of Legal History and Director of the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy at the University at Buffalo School of Law. This interview is based on her new book, Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom […]
The Author’s Corner with Thomas Aiello
Thomas Aiello is Professor of History, Africana Studies, and Anthrozoology at Valdosta State University. This interview is based on his new book, Practical Radicalism and the Great Migration: The Cultural Geography of the Scott Newspaper Syndicate (University of Georgia Press, […]
Newspapers and democracy
Click the link to Nancy Gibbs’s piece at The Washington Post and spend some time with the interactive map on the declining state of the American newspaper. Here is a taste of the piece: If you’re a Democrat hoping to […]
The Author’s Corner with Jordan E. Taylor
Jordan E. Taylor is a writer and editor who has published in the Journal of the Early Republic, Early American Studies, and more. This interview is based on his new book, Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary […]
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 did local newspapers cover the Tulsa race massacre?
Get up to speed on the Tulsa Race Massacre here. The image at the top of this post is the front page of the Tulsa World on June 1, 1921: There was another edition from that day. The above addition […]
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, […]
No more op-eds at The New York Times
The Times has decided that op-eds are no longer relevant in the digital age. Here is Kathleen Kingsbury: The first Op-Ed page in The New York Times greeted the world on Sept. 21, 1970. It was so named because it appeared […]
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 […]
When Facebook replaces the local newspaper
The editor of Current, Eric Miller, is a resident of Beaver County, Pennsylvania. I wonder if he knows about The News Alert of Beaver County public Facebook group? I’ll have to ask him. Brandy Zadrony’s piece at NBC News reveals […]
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 […]