Fake Caroline.
CJRby Tom Zeller Jr.8h ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. “Your heartbeat quietly shapes how your brain processes information.” So went the headline atop an article published in Science magazine in June, with the...
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CJRby Aseel Mousa19h ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In early 2023, a Palestinian journalist named Bilal Jadallah was working his contacts.
A war of attrition.
CJRby Ivan L. Nagy1d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On September 18, Theodore Boutrous Jr., a prominent appellate and media lawyer, was preparing to take a vacation.
‘Willful Blindness’: Ruth Margalit on Israelis’ media consumption.
CJRby Amos Barshad1d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Ruth Margalit, a contributing writer at the New York Times magazine, specializes in profiles of prominent Israelis.
When the Blinds Dropped: WBIR’s John North on witnessing the botched execution of Christa Pike.
CJRby Carolina Abbott Galvão2d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In 1996, at twenty years old, Christa Pike was sentenced to death for the murder of Colleen Slemmer, her classmate at a job training camp in Knoxville...
“I’m 25 and just bought my local paper.”
CJRby Liz Skalka2d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. “I’m a twenty-five-year-old who just bought my local newspaper, and here’s my first edition,” Evan Newton posted to his TikTok account this summer.
Two Crowns: As David Ellison prepares to take charge of CNN, Donald Trump tests the limits of his power.
CJRby Jem Bartholomew3d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. This week promises—or threatens, depending on your interpretation—to be a major one for the American press.
The full color of Joe Sacco.
CJRby Amos Barshad3d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. For a long time now, Joe Sacco, one of the world’s foremost cartoon journalists, has wanted to stop chronicling killings.
Laurels and Darts: Following the political money.
CJRby S. Mitra Kalita6d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Los Angeles is in the midst of a political shake-up. A Berkeley–LA Times poll last week showed an increasingly tight race between Karen Bass, the sitting...
A victim of the “Elon Musk playbook.”
CJRby Megan Greenwell7d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. For me, and for most of my fellow millennials in the journalism industry, the idea of spending more than two decades in the same job seems unfathomable.
Ask Anika: Is my chatbot poisoned by disinformation?
CJRby Anika Collier Navaroli7d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Welcome back to Ask Anika, a column for addressing questions about the ethics, legal considerations, and best practices of adopting new technologies in...
‘Primetime’ and Chris Hansen: Losing control.
CJRby Susie Banikarim8d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Chris Hansen feels ambushed. He is standing outside a Regal movie theater in Times Square.
Assal Rad on how the mainstream press has failed in its coverage of Gaza.
CJRby Amos Barshad8d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Assal Rad, an activist and Middle East historian, has become known for social media posts in which she edits headlines that she finds absurd, largely for their...
Evan Gershkovich: Reporting from inside.
CJRby Joel Simon9d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. This Cursed Beautiful Land, the new book by Evan Gershkovich, opens in March of 2023, more than a year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The new boss at the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
CJRby Riddhi Setty9d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Since taking ownership of the Chattanooga Times Free Press, on July 31, Craig Fuller has felt amazing.
“Flashing red.”
CJRby Jem Bartholomew10d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On Thursday morning, as President Donald Trump welcomed Xi Jinping, the president of the People’s Republic of China, to the White House, CNN’s Betsy Klein said...
Richard LA’s impossible beat.
CJRby Carolina Abbott Galvão10d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When Carlitos Ricardo Parias told his family that he wanted to become a social media creator, they were confused.
Laurels and Darts: Solidarity, finally.
CJRby Susie Banikarim13d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In July, we gave a dart to the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) for forging ahead with its rescheduled annual dinner.
How should we cover the climate story?
CJRby Carolina Abbott Galvão15d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In late August, flash floods swept down a steep mountain valley in the Himalayas, killing more than thirteen hundred people in Nepal and Tibet.
Done and dusted.
CJRby Amos Barshad15d ago
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. William Tong is the attorney general of Connecticut, a member of a coalition of states that, up until this weekend, was suing to stop Paramount’s...