When did we separate politics and the mail?
On this week’s Kicker, Professor Richard R. John, a historian and author of “Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse,” speaks with Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of CJR,...
21 Elo 202025min
How to cover an election that isn’t there
Radio rallies in church parking lots, candidates in their basements, and voters stuck in hibernation. When all that’s left to cover are the talking points, how should local and national political repo...
14 Elo 202023min
Stephen Sackur and Interviewing Trump
Stephen Sackur and Interviewing Trump by Columbia Journalism Review
7 Elo 202027min
Imagining a new world
The uprising to abolish the police asks our country, and the press, to envision a new world. But the news business is not built to accommodate ideas that would transform society. On this week’s Kicker...
17 Heinä 202037min
Great escape: Nicholson Baker lets YouTube take the wheel
When Nicholson Baker first fell in love with YouTube, it was for its “outpouring of human miscellany” and “first person journalism.” But when CJR asked him to write about YouTube as a purveyor of poli...
10 Heinä 202035min
Why police defunding is not an election story
On this week’s Kicker, journalist Jack Herrera and Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of CJR, discuss the gaps in newsroom’s coverage of the defunding debate, and the blind spots journalists still have a...
3 Heinä 202030min
Ed Yong on COVID-19 and American fatalism
Ed Yong on COVID-19 and American fatalism by Columbia Journalism Review
26 Kesä 202029min
Imperfect victims: Mental illness & police brutality
People with untreated mental illnesses are 16 times more likely to be killed by police. Studies show they make up close to half of all police shooting victims. Young black men with mental illness are ...
19 Kesä 202023min
