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Michael Sitrick will be your best friend and your worst enemy. Michael Sitrick notices when you got a fact wrong in your story. He won’t yell at you, though. He’s good that way. Michael Sitrick always takes your questions and you can just call him Mike. Mike is easy to love and easier to fear....
Every morning that I’m not hungover, I wake up around 8am, because that is when my two cats start howling for breakfast. I feed them, make coffee, and walk barefoot and unwashed (mug in hand) through my apartment building’s common hallway to the front door, where I pick up my New York Times and my...
The proliferation of news deserts in the United States has been well-documented, including by CJR. But what are their effects? How is life in a news desert any different from life in the rest of the country? We worked with the University of North Carolina School of Media and Journalism’s Expanding News Desert project to...
On September 24, 2015, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha stood before a bank of TV cameras to deliver alarming findings from her study of the drinking water in Flint, Michigan: more than 1,700 children had elevated levels of lead in their blood. For a few years, Flint had been controlled by state-appointed emergency managers and, in April...
In late January, over the course of a week, a lousy journalism job market became truly awful. About 1,000 journalists learned they were being laid off, at BuzzFeed, HuffPost, and Gannett, marking a grim record for an industry that has...
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On February 11, news broke that Millennium Films was delaying Bryan Singer’s Red Sonja, which was to begin production this year. This was, on the face of it, a remarkable turn of events. Singer’s Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, had just...
New York Media lays off 32 people, including 5% of full-time staff https://t.co/broefSsmPz
— Mathew Ingram (@mathewi) March 11, 2019
A profile of La Gordiloca, a reporter in Laredo, Texas, who uses Facebook to deliver news and scoops to her 119,000 followers in profanity-laced Spanglish (@viasimonromero / New York Times)https://t.co/d1qKzZJQYQhttps://t.co/hHsh5LfEyF
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer) March 11, 2019
As local journalism fades, many Americans no longer have someone watching over their city council, chronicling the soccer exploits of their children or reporting on the kindly neighbor who died of cancer. #SunshineWeek https://t.co/us4rcAbqKY
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 10, 2019
This week I’ll finally start as the BBC's first LGBT Correspondent! 🏳️🌈 So here's a video about me, my parents & my hidden talent… 😂 pic.twitter.com/b1ObgMuQ42
— Ben Hunte (@BenInLDN) March 4, 2019
Slate is very lucky to get Jared Hohlt as EIC. https://t.co/tsHPCL7ZYo
— Jack Shafer (@jackshafer) March 6, 2019