Tag: Media

If there’s no earth, there’s no art. How do you engage in cultural criticism at the end of the world?

Journalism now is a lot more fear and insecurity and a lot less corduroy and Robert Redford, but you’d never know it from what is projected.

Jim Acosta isn’t the first reporter to be barred from the White House—when Stuart Loory reported on the possibility that Richard Nixon was bilking taxpayers, he found himself on the president’s enemies list.

“If you’re doing something small, something that’s mostly your labor and vision, then stick to what makes you satisfied.”

The more work that journalists create for the internet, the more work is rendered obsolete.

When an online news outlet goes out of business, its archives can disappear as well. The new battle over journalism’s digital legacy.

Bari Weiss, Bret Stephens, and Katie Roiphe have to try to be better, right along with the rest of us.

And everyone in this industry should speak out against it.

In a softball interview, the new publisher of the NYT downplays the rigors of the role.

Ordinary details can furnish a room, they can set a table, they can fill the time between hushed meetings of planned genocide.

Why the libertarian billionaire keeps tabs on the magazine he founded at Stanford 30 years ago.

We were the watchdogs, showing up when no one else did.

If reporting becomes excessive, it can do more harm than good.

It had one of the most successful refugee resettlement programs in the nation. Then Breitbart came to town.

The paper redefined the alt-weekly and introduced readers to a new kind of journalist and critic.

The money manager who once trashed Trump now has a job in the White House.

The production company Acres New York combines documentary filmmaking and political savvy.

And they can be thrown out at any time, for any reason.

Trump’s White House is gradually eroding the tradition of daily press briefings.

Reporters Nina Martin and Renee Montagne go behind the scenes of their multi-part series on women who die in childbirth.

“This Land”closes its print edition this month, capping seven years of extraordinary local journalism.

When Greg Owen saved thousands of lives with a Facebook post, he became part of the long history of social networks and gay activism.

At The Ringer, Bryan Curtis examines how food writers became the rock critics of our time.

A brief history of the phrase, “enemy of the people.”

Nothing is normal right now, so it makes perfect sense that journalists should reconsider what objectivity means in 2017.

It wasn’t poor whites who criminalized blackness by way of marijuana laws and the “war on drugs.” Nor was it poor whites who conjured the specter of the black “welfare queen.” These points should not minimize the horrors of racism at the lowest economic rungs of society, but remind us that those horrors reside at […]

Twenty-five years after its debut, here is the story of an independent newspaper in Seattle that spawned Dan Savage and won a Pulitzer Prize.

Americans have been playing softball with their co-workers since the game grew out of several variants of baseball in the late 19th century. In 1895, Louis Rober, a lieutenant in the Minneapolis fire department, organized games of “kittenball” to entertain firefighters between runs. Blue-collar company teams proliferated over the next half-century. Office workers joined in later, […]

“On the last day of my old job, I stumbled out the door, holding aloft that iconic emblem of termination: The Box. Though from the outside it might look wholly indistinct, we who have felt its symbolic weight know this is no ordinary box; this is a box that can make grown men cry.”

The magazine was concerned about leaks and took security measures “every step of the way,” including on the photo shoot [where they hired security and confiscated cellphones], in the VF editorial office and at the printing plant for the upcoming issue. The story and pictures were done on a single computer that was never connected […]