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One Company Is Making Money From News and It Rhymes With ‘Shmoogle’ A new report states Google made $4.7 billion from the news industry in 2018, boosting calls to share revenue with publishers who are doing the work.
By Matt Stieb
life in pixels
June 4, 2019
Does Facebook Have a Leaks Problem? Facebook employees are increasingly talkative and increasingly polarized — and a lot of them have access to private user data.
By Max Read
Slain Northern Irish Journalist Remembered As an Inspiration After devoting her career to covering the aftermath of the Troubles, 29-year-old Lyra McKee was shot and killed amid escalating sectarian tensions.
By Anna Silman
What Was the Washington Post Afraid Of? About to publish an investigation of a powerful executive’s alleged sexual misconduct, the newspaper pulled back. Irin Carmon tries to understand why.
By Irin Carmon
How a 1970s Jeff Goldblum Film Predicted the Current Journalism Crisis Joan Micklin Silver’s Between the Lines will be eerily familiar to any journalist or writer working today.
By Vikram Murthi
book excerpt
Jan. 21, 2019
My Tumultuous Time at the New York Times Jill Abramson on her lessons in journalism — and management — from editing the New York Times during the great digital disruption.
By Jill Abramson
international affairs
Oct. 8, 2018
Everything We Know About the Disappearance and Alleged Murder of Jamal Khashoggi Turkey has alleged that the Washington Post journalist was murdered by the Saudi regime, but it’s not yet clear what has happened.
By Chas Danner
Time Magazine Sold to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Wife Lynne Benioff The Benioffs said they do not plan to have a role in the magazine’s day-to-day operations and are “honored to be stewards of this iconic brand.”
By Margaret Hartmann
R. Kelly Names Investigative Reporter As His ‘Enemy’ R. Kelly believes that Jim DeRogatis just needs to walk in his shoes.
By Opheli Garcia Lawler
Business Insider Retracted a Bad Piece — and Set a Terrible Precedent There’s a reason retractions are so rare in journalism — and for the health and vibrancy of the craft, they need to stay that way.
By Jesse Singal
close reads
June 18, 2018
By Kathryn VanArendonk
What to Know About Ali Watkins, James Wolfe, and the FBI A reporter had her communications data seized in the investigation of a former Senate Intelligence Committee aide — with whom she had a relationship.
By Gabriella Paiella
remembrances
May 15, 2018
Tom Wolfe’s Path to Immortality Now Wolfe is dead and one wonders what color suit he’ll be buried in, because cremation wouldn’t do.
By Christian Lorentzen
Tom Wolfe, New York and New Journalism Legend, Dies at 88 In a city of people who wear black, the man in the white suit.
By Christopher Bonanos
awful things
Apr. 30, 2018
Twin Suicide Bombings in Afghanistan Kill 29, Including Journalists The second bomber targeted people rushing to cover the first blast. AFP’s chief photographer in Afghanistan was among the seven journalists killed.
By Margaret Hartmann
Time Inc. Saw a Hopeful Future With Meredith. Now They’re Seeking a New Savior. Even as Meredith basks in the celebrity glow of its first Time 100 Gala on Tuesday, the company will be courting buyers for Time and other titles.
By David Freedlander
Kevin Williamson Won’t Tell Me What Should Happen to Women Who Have Abortions After complaining no one will just ask him, I did. Williamson won’t answer plain questions.
By Ed Kilgore
Sinclair Chairman Claims Entire Print Media Has ‘No Credibility’ David Smith, whose anchors recite right-wing scripts, said newspapers and magazines are “so left wing as to be meaningless dribble.”
By Olivia Nuzzi
When Facebook ‘Disrupts’ Journalism, It Degrades Our Democracy Journalists don’t cover Facebook harshly because it threatens their jobs — they do so because it threatens our republic (and, also, their jobs).
By Eric Levitz
Local News Is Turning Into Trump TV, Even Though Their Viewers Don’t Want It Americans prefer unbiased local news. But media consolidation makes it profitable for stations to broadcast biased national news, anyway.
By Eric Levitz
Donald Trump Wins His Own Fake News Award He finally revealed the winners … in a broken link to the GOP’s website.
By Olivia Nuzzi
School Bars Student Journalists From Talking About Sexual Misconduct The Coronado Middle School morning news team announced they will stop broadcasting.
By Madeleine Aggeler
Accusers of Mark Halperin and Charlie Rose Form Support Group for Journalists The Press Forward aims to empower female journalists, and stop harassment in the newsroom.
By Madeleine Aggeler
Harvey Weinstein Lawyers Up in Advance of Possible Exposés The mogul has reportedly been in touch with the Clintons’ crisis manager Lanny Davis.
By Nate Jones
Journalist No Longer Facing Jail Time for Asking HHS Secretary a Question A West Virginia prosecutor’s office has dropped its charges against Dan Heyman, who was arrested in May for “aggressively” questioning Tom Price.
By Caroline Bankoff
how i get it done
Sept. 6, 2017
How I Get It Done: Maggie Haberman The New York Times reporter on why bartending was the best journalism training, her daily news diet, and burnout.
By Kaitlin Menza
New York Daily News Sold to Publisher Tronc The company, which was formerly known as Tribune Publishing, also owns the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune .
By Margaret Hartmann
The Village Voice Is Ending Its Weekly Print EditionThe New York staple will continue to publish online.
By Jackson McHenry
Mike Cernovich Pivots From Pizzagate to Not-So-Fake News The alt-right favorite is distancing himself from Trump and rebranding as a journalist — “because it really triggers people.”
By Olivia Nuzzi
Journalist Sues Tupac Biopic All Eyez on Me Over Copyright Infringement Writer Kevin Powell points to his interview with Tupac Shakur, claiming “[s]ome portions of the article were changed or embellished by Plaintiff.”
By Halle Kiefer
Megyn Kelly’s Alex Jones Interview Was Less Controversial Than Expected Critics said the edited version offered a decent overview of the Infowars host but still had journalistic shortcomings.
By Margaret Hartmann
Gianforte Apologizes for Assaulting Journalist Who Asked Him a Question He’s agreed to donate $50,000 to the Committee to Protect Journalists as part of a settlement agreement, but he still faces criminal charges.
By Margaret Hartmann
Why the Right Should Be Worried About Violence Against Journalists Conservative media folk do not have to stop being conservatives to get that their own values and interests are at stake.
By Ed Kilgore
HHS Secretary Commends Police for Arresting Journalist Who Asked Him a Question Price notes the reporter approached him in a hallway, “not in a press conference,” and says, “Police acted as they felt necessary.”
By Margaret Hartmann
Reporter Arrested After Asking Health and Human Services Secretary a Question Police say Dan Heyman was “causing a disturbance,” but he says he was just doing his job.
By Margaret Hartmann
Lydia Polgreen Wants to Bring HuffPost Back to the People The paper’s new editor-in-chief and self-proclaimed “ink-stained wretch” explains its changing ethos.
By Claire Landsbaum
Why the White House Is Boosting Mike Cernovich The White House wants to fuzz the boundaries between mainstream, respectable news outlets and utterly gonzo ones as much as possible.
By Jesse Singal
Samantha Bee Is Saving Local Journalism One Small-Town Newspaper at a Time With all of Donald Trump’s complaints about the “fake news” of publications like The New York Times, it can be easy to forget that there are […]
By Megh Wright
last night on late night
Mar. 16, 2017
Rachel Maddow Discusses How She Confirmed Trump’s Tax Return Is Real “I’m happy to deal with either one of these assertions: that it’s authentic or that it’s fake. But pick one.”
By Halle Kiefer
How Should Political Journalists Handicap Elections? Steve Bannon has called out the “elite press” for misjudging the 2016 race. Is now the right moment to take a lesson?
By Ed Kilgore
Rory Gilmore and Why We Need Better Fictional Journalism Like a lot of TV, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life doesn’t quite capture journalism accurately.
By Jen Chaney
on the trail
Sept. 29, 2016
What It’s Like to Be a Female Reporter Covering Donald Trump “I still have moments when I think, I cannot believe he’s the Republican nominee .”
By Claire Landsbaum
the national circus
July 25, 2016
How the Media Did (and Didn’t) Fail in Covering the Rise of Donald Trump “The problem is not that the press is failing to do due diligence; the problem is that many of his [Trump’s] adherents are impervious to that diligence.”
By Frank Rich
You Can Trust the Echo Chamber About That Controversial Ben Rhodes Profile David Samuels argues that the critical response to his profile of Rhodes illustrates the hopelessness of “open, rational debate” in today’s media climate. He’s wrong.
By Eric Levitz
The Secret Behind Facebook’s Trending Topics Bar The deadpan summaries are written by people acting as algorithms.
By Brian Feldman
Don’t Trust Your CMS In the digital era, publishing is easier than ever. But so is making mistakes.
By Max Read
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