Special Report: Inside the toxic mediasphere of Black exceptionalism
When Samuel Getachew was a sixth grader in the Oakland public school system, Akintunde Ahmad was a “hometown hero,” headed to Yale. On this week’s Kicker, Ahmad, now a CJR contributor and Ida B. Wells...
16 Jul 202125min
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the use of power
How do we report and contextualize the January 6 insurrection, or the largest efforts to suppress the vote since the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, or the way political power is wielded in the ...
12 Jul 202127min
Errol Louis: Inside City Hall for the New York City primaries
The pandemic’s limits on primary candidates and the journalists who cover them; a drastically shorter campaign season; and all but absent public polling thanks to the new ranked choice voting. This ha...
25 Jun 202113min
Carole Cadwalladr, Covid-19, and the fight against collective amnesia
At the start of the pandemic, the UK government’s suppression of data prompted Carole Cadwalladr and her colleagues at All the Citizens to found Independent SAGE, a group of scientists who shadow offi...
14 Jun 202126min
The Tokyo Olympics, Naomi Osaka, and the death of sports access
With over ten thousand athletes from more than two hundred countries, the Olympics are typically a sports writer’s dream. But with Covid protocols in Tokyo this summer, and heightened awareness that p...
4 Jun 202118min
Alden and Tribune: ‘A crash course in capitalism’
About half of daily local newspaper circulation in the US is now controlled by hedge funds. On this week’s Kicker, Rebecca Lurye, a reporter for the Hartford Courant and unit chair for the Hartford Co...
27 Mai 202123min
How to cover abortion
As the Supreme Court prepares to hear Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a Mississippi case that outlaws abortion after 15 weeks gestation, the media’s coverage of abortion, and the languag...
21 Mai 202126min
The view from Tel Aviv
Ruth Margalit is an Israeli journalist living in Tel Aviv. By day, she covers the crisis there for the New Yorker. By night, her young family shelters in their building’s stairwell.On this week’s Kick...
14 Mai 202120min
