India’s Increasingly Despotic Crackdown on Journalists The deadly attacks on journalists, who now work within a tightening entanglement of political bosses and business behemoths, signifies the rise of India’s elected despots. Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane 16 Nov 2021 · 7 min read
Gulags Are for Artists Like Me The role that journalists must play to uphold our democratic values is integral to democracy and social cohesion. Journalists hold governments and their agencies to account. Peter Mousaferiadis 18 Oct 2021 · 6 min read
PODCAST 109: Substack Founder Chris Best on How the Humble Email Newsletter is Saving Journalism Tech entrepreneur Chris Best talks about Substack, his self-publishing platform that is attracting journalists like Andrew Sullivan, Jesse Singal and Jen Gerson. Quillette 6 Sep 2020 · 1 min read
Is the New York Times Bad For Democracy? If the Times is implicated in the declining health of smaller news organizations, then it’s not serving the values of democracy as well as it righteously claims. Chang Che 20 Mar 2020 · 6 min read
As Newspapers Fade, Journalists Are Finding New Ways to Cover Local News Less local reporting means less transparency, less informed voters, and lower levels of civic engagement. Alexandra Hudson 6 Feb 2020 · 7 min read
Preventable Deaths and the Need for Data-Driven Journalism My primary goal—and Dr. Tyson’s if I read his tweet correctly—is to provide context. It is perhaps inevitable that our biases will continue to inform the responses of the general public on social media. Evan Balkcom 29 Aug 2019 · 6 min read
On the Vital Importance of (Good) Journalism Within this fact lies the key to journalism’s power to search for a social truth that applies to all. Yes, I am talking about investigative journalism and the nitty-gritty of covering city council meetings. Victor Greto 16 May 2019 · 6 min read
The Meaning of the Self-Destructive Strike at WSU History suggests another explanation, which has been left unexamined that radicalized union leadership is part, perhaps the primary part, of the problem. Evan Osborne 9 Feb 2019 · 8 min read
The Plight of Pitch Wars In 2019, though, it turns out that yes, you’re entitled to a book deal—as long as you collect enough marginalization points. J. Avery 9 Feb 2019 · 6 min read
The Virtue Economy These data are consistent with Amnesty’s findings, where nearly 9 percent of Twitter mentions toward black women were problematic. Suzie Mulesky 31 Jan 2019 · 16 min read
The Comment Awards Fiasco That seems itself to be an example of divisiveness and a snub to one form of diversity: that of diverse opinion. Claire Fox 25 Oct 2018 · 9 min read
#MeToo Casualty Ian Buruma Was the Editor We Needed I’m not the only reader left longing for an editor who displays a lordly disregard for public opinion Colin Marshall 26 Sep 2018 · 15 min read
Journalism in the Age of the Populist Right Bannon’s deplatforming has reignited the debate about the responsibilities that mainstream event organisers and media broadcasters have when giving a platform to far-right views, and what limits we should place on public discourse. Andrew Glover 5 Sep 2018 · 7 min read
Journalism Is Not Activism The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable. Robert Showah 5 Jul 2018 · 8 min read
Academic Journal Publishing is Headed for a Day of Reckoning Access to journals is crucial for how they do their work. But few research libraries can afford all the journal subscriptions needed by all of their faculty for all occasions. Patrick Burns 6 Dec 2017 · 6 min read
