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Five years ago, I came across an article in The New York Times about a spate of robberies in the Bronx. It was the kind of story that has been a staple in the metro sections of newspapers since there have been metro sections in newspapers, focusing on the reaction of people living in the...
In 1979, the American Society of News Editors pledged that, by the year 2000, the percentage of racial and ethnic minorities in newsrooms would match that of the population at large. Noting that this was “the right thing to do” and in the “industry’s economic self-interest,” ASNE stressed the particular importance of lifting people of color into management. Newspapers have...
I didn’t set out to become a journalist, but I have always loved language and the power of storytelling. At 6 years old, I wrote and performed a one-woman show, about a vibrant young woman who lived alone and dusted her bookshelves all day with great focus and care; my parents gave it five out of...
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