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American media is not, and never has been, diverse. Every so often the industry releases reports to assess the precise proportions of its homogeneity. The latest came in February: Internal reviews at Condé Nast and Hearst found that, despite several well-publicized hires of nonwhite editors in management roles, the majority of new employees were white....
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Rahsaan “New York” Thomas met freelance journalist Emily Nonko at San Quentin State Prison in 2018. Thomas is 50, co-host of the Pulitzer-nominated Ear Hustle podcast, and currently incarcerated at the prison. He had decided to write years earlier, contributed numerous stories to San Quentin News, and was interested in connecting incarcerated people with those...
Covering the Atlanta massacre from inside the Korean community
Read in Korean | 한국어 번역 보기 Sang Yeon Lee first heard about last Tuesday’s shootings in the same way as most others in Atlanta: after dusk fell, a breaking news alert appeared on his television screen. Little information was given about the shootings other than that they occurred at three massage spas, two of them off...
How FacesOfCOVID documents the intimacy of loss
Laura Jackson’s husband, Charlie, died on May 17, in a veteran’s hospital in North Carolina, from complications related to COVID-19. At the time, Jackson, who is forty-seven, hadn’t seen Charlie in person for three weeks; like him, she had tested positive for COVID-19, but she had been asymptomatic, and recovered. Mourning Charlie was difficult; public...
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Did a newsletter company create a more equitable media system—or replicate the flaws of the old one?
The first week of March, Patrice Peck, a freelance journalist living in New York, started sanitizing everything. She went to Nitehawk, a dine-in movie theater, and brought Clorox to wipe down the little table by her seat, her drinking...
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