New York’s Next Mayor and a Failure of Local ReportingA big story arrives, but too late for voters to consider.
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Is it Time for Journalism to Get Off Facebook?What do you do if something is "like cigarettes"? If you can, you quit.
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Why News Organizations Should Stop Sponsoring PollsDoing so would simply produce fewer bad stories.
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Four Rules for Nonprofit Journalism Funders**or institutional funders of most anything else
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A Lesson from the Decline of ViceRevisiting what David Carr saw, and why it may have been lost.
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A Call for More Proportionality in Pandemic CoverageWe need to do better in conveying what's news.
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The Press Also Has Responsibility for the Afghanistan MessThe American people believed our excellent coverage. This is the result.
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Celebrating the Power of Publishing PartnershipsHow Paul Steiger Helped Spawn Modern Journalistic Collaborations
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Thinking About Coverage of China and the Second Cold WarThree key lessons for the press to learn from coverage of the U.S.-Soviet contest.
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Why the Bourdain Fake Audios are a Problem for JournalismWe need to reckon with the different ethics of traditional reporting and many documentarians.
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If You Work for Murdoch, It’s Time to Do SomethingFox Corp. is working to undermine democracy and get some of its viewers killed, both seemingly for partisan advantage. Don't stand by while they do.
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A Second Justice Joins the War on the PressThree things to know about Gorsuch's recent dissent.
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