‘The more American your life is, the more vulnerable you become’
When longtime residents of Washington State’s Long Beach Peninsula began to disappear, journalist McKenzie Funk set out to reverse-engineer ICE officers’ use of domestic-surveillance data. Last week, ...
11 Okt 201916min
Impeachment and how Trump exposed the flaws in journalism
Joe Lockhart was named White House press secretary in 1998, three days before the House voted to impeach President Clinton. This week, Lockhart speaks with Kyle Pope, the editor and publisher of CJR, ...
4 Okt 201926min
The Financial Times follows the money on the climate crisis
Among readers, the demand for climate crisis coverage is high. Until recently, however, financial reporters have stayed largely silent on the subject. On this week’s episode, Kyle Pope, the editor and...
26 Sep 201915min
Climate collaboration—three hundred outlets, one billion viewers
There is a climate angle to every beat, no matter how small the newsroom; collaboration pays; and climate coverage is no more political than failure to cover the climate crisis. On this week’s episode...
20 Sep 201919min
One hyperlocal reporter and 400,000 NYCHA residents
Public housing is one of the most undercovered stories in New York. But every day, Monica Morales of PIX11 News answers calls from residents of city-owned buildings and fixes their problems. Kyle Pope...
13 Sep 201919min
Bahamian media and the fight for Hurricane relief
Two days before Hurricane Dorian hit, Eugene Duffy, the managing editor of The Tribune in Nassau, sent a reporter and a photographer to Marsh Harbour in the Abacos. As the town endured the largest sto...
5 Sep 201919min
After Reuters—Myanmar’s other reporters
Swe Win, the editor of Myanmar Now, a bilingual investigative-news website, was sued for defamation in Mandalay two years ago. His crime? Posting on Facebook about his site’s coverage of an extremist ...
22 Aug 201916min
Jeffrey Epstein on background
“Slippery,” but “charming.” “Magnetic,” but “useless.” And “utterly unapologetic.” Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein invited New York Times columnist James Stewart to his Manhattan home last Augu...
15 Aug 201929min
