‘I Try to Find the Question That People Cannot Squirm Out Of’: An Interview with Nashville’s Phil Williams
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‘I Try to Find the Question That People Cannot Squirm Out Of’: An Interview with Nashville’s Phil Williams

For more than thirty years, Phil Williams has been the steadying voice of investigative reporting at NewsChannel 5, in Nashville. His deep dives into toxic wastewater and lobbyist access to state politicians have earned him a slew of major journalism awards, including five Peabodys and five duPont-Columbia Awards. But in recent years, his most viral moments have been his unflappable encounters with extremists and neo-Nazis, who have popped up brazenly in communities around Nashville—that is, ...

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Public Editors: Why even good reporting no longer impacts the vote

Public Editors: Why even good reporting no longer impacts the vote

The media did better work covering Trump than in 2016, but did that reporting have any impact on the real world?On this week’s Kicker, Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of CJR, sits down with CJR’s publ...

13 Marras 202033min

Masha Gessen on Trump's bid for autocracy

Masha Gessen on Trump's bid for autocracy

Trump told us, ahead of time, he would claim victory in the election regardless of how America voted. On this week's Kicker, Masha Gessen, a New Yorker columnist and author of "Surviving Autocracy," t...

6 Marras 202024min

David Remnick and the View from Trump’s Fifth Avenue

David Remnick and the View from Trump’s Fifth Avenue

In 2016, Donald Trump told rally attendees that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without losing voters. Since then, disqualifying pieces of investigative journalism have glanced off without impa...

30 Loka 202028min

Election 2020 — Why the idea of a return to normal is so dangerous

Election 2020 — Why the idea of a return to normal is so dangerous

Jon Allsop and Pete Vernon have written the CJR newsletter, “The Media Today,” since its inception in the wake of the 2016 election. On this week’s Kicker, they speak with Kyle Pope, editor and publis...

23 Loka 202032min

E Jean Carroll puts Trump’s survivors in charge

E Jean Carroll puts Trump’s survivors in charge

Most sexual assault coverage in America is told from the attacker’s perspective. Survivors’ physical appearance is described in detail, and the actual assault is sexualized. But in E Jean Carroll’s ma...

16 Loka 202025min

Physicians on the air

Physicians on the air

The president has COVID-19, but the White House has failed to provide reliable information about his condition. To fill the gap, journalists have turned to doctors.On this week’s Kicker, Dr. Christoph...

9 Loka 202027min

COVID at the White House, voter disinformation, and how to report around the propaganda

COVID at the White House, voter disinformation, and how to report around the propaganda

As a result of an aggressive disinformation campaign, about half of Republicans believe voter fraud is a major problem. Now that Trump has tested positive for COVID-19, what will the impact be on his ...

2 Loka 202025min

What was the Notorious RBG like as a source?

What was the Notorious RBG like as a source?

How did Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg view the press? And how far did the mythology we built around the “Great Dissenter” stray from reality?On this week’s Kicker, Betsy West, co-director ...

25 Syys 202023min

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