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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jul 202030min
Ed Yong on COVID-19 and American fatalism
Ed Yong on COVID-19 and American fatalism by Columbia Journalism Review
26 Jun 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 Jun 202023min
Wesley Morris—Four hundred years in one line of music
As journalists cover the intersection of racist police riots, our president’s instability, and the coronavirus pandemic, we struggle to break the old mold of objective reporting. Wesley Morris, a crit...
8 Jun 202042min
Black deaths, Black protest
Police murders of Black Americans, and the resulting protests, are once more at the forefront of the news cycle. The focus constitutes an important opportunity, but journalists who don’t have a nuance...
29 Mai 202020min
MSNBC’s identity crisis
When Adam Piore set out to profile MSNBC, he discovered a community of viewers who feel that, just by watching cable news, they are participating in our democracy.On this week’s Kicker, Kyle Pope, edi...
22 Mai 202021min
