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Last week on Twitter, as bombs were arriving at the mailing addresses of some of Donald Trump’s prominent political opponents, the president charged the mainstream media with fueling “A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society.” Some of Trump’s critics offered their own theories of radicalization and media influence: As...
We live in a moment of extraordinary tension between the press and the public. Donald Trump’s knee-jerk retort of “Fake news” is now a particular favorite of dictators and authoritarians around the world. The prevailing anti-press animosity at the national level has trickled down to local reporters, the Associated Press reports. And it’s not just...
The story of the Central American migrant caravan dominated cable news for weeks; then it turned up in the social media accounts of Cesar Sayoc, who has been accused of mailing pipe bombs to more than a dozen prominent Democrats, and Robert Bowers, who was charged with murdering 11 people during a bris at a...
As bad as the headlines over the past week have been, they don’t reflect anything new: Instead, the killings in Pittsburgh and Kentucky and the mailing of a dozen pipe bombs across the country represent a ratcheting up of trends we’ve watch unfold in our news and our politics over the past couple of years....
As far back as I can remember, I have known exactly what I wanted my job to be. I worked at my grade school newspaper (shout-out to The Bobcat Chat), then my high school paper, then my college one. My...
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It was 1933, and the Great Depression was pummeling the newspaper industry. The New York World, once owned by Joseph Pulitzer and the city’s largest paper, had closed two years earlier, throwing 3,000 people out of work. In many cities,...
Washington Post announces Press Freedom Partnership in coordination with CPJ, Reporters without Borders, and others to champion independent press (@brianstelter / CNN)https://t.co/1Axb0qb5bFhttps://t.co/4SivWoppjD
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer) November 2, 2018
CNN was able to continue covering the news this morning, even as it was unfolding in the very building all of the staff was evacuated from! Here’s @brianstelter’s account of how CNN stayed on the air. https://t.co/n6c0aWmw5a
— Jessica Schneider (@SchneiderCNN) October 24, 2018
CNN New York staffers are now being allowed back into the building, 5 hours after the evacuation began. pic.twitter.com/rT4cApDCZi
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 24, 2018
Dodai Stewart, founding editor of Jezebel and former editor-in-chief of Splinter, is joining the New York Times as deputy editor of Metro (The New York Times Company)https://t.co/aAtX3sA74Jhttps://t.co/yWDBgq6oK4
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer) October 23, 2018
FB recruiting @nick_clegg as Head of Global Affairs and Communication "will be as much of a surprise to the British political establishment as it will be to Silicon Valley, where few European politicians enjoy a high profile in the insular tech industry." https://t.co/Y6SuajcoU4
— Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (@rasmus_kleis) October 19, 2018