Local media and COVID-19: the canary in the coalmine
When an outbreak like the Covid-19 pandemic hits, local journalists serve as first responders for global surveillance efforts. Elisabeth Rosenthal was a young physician when the AIDS epidemic hit New ...
12 Mar 202023min
When the circus comes to town: The Storm Lake Times in Iowa
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump didn’t visit towns like Storm Lake, Iowa in 2016. This election cycle, things are much different. Art Cullen, editor and co-owner of the Storm Lake Times, and winner o...
5 Mar 202022min
A war correspondent covers the climate crisis
Kadir van Lohuizen reports on the climate crisis with the same techniques he brought to his work as a war correspondent. His photography, video, and written work focus on the point of conflict between...
28 Feb 202019min
Family leave and the diversity edge
Jess Brammar is the new editor in chief of HuffPost UK. She is also 7 months pregnant. When it comes to family leave policy, American news outlets lag behind their European counterparts. On this week’...
20 Feb 202015min
Coronavirus, China’s press, and the disappearance of Chen Quishi
In China, journalists are conditioned to keep their online activity apolitical. But the coronavirus outbreak took censors by surprise. In the panic, editors were temporarily emboldened. Han Zhang, who...
13 Feb 202019min
Keeping the faith
Keeping the faith by Columbia Journalism Review
6 Feb 202029min
Guns, Puerto Rico, & American labor
What do we miss when we obsess about Trump? The answer, it turns out, includes some of the most important stories of our time. On this week’s Kicker, Kyle Pope, editor and publisher of CJR, speaks wit...
21 Jan 202027min
Dexter Filkins and how to cover the Soleimani assasination
In 2013, Dexter Filkins wrote the definitive profile of Major General Qassem Soleimani, the architect of Iran’s “Axis of Resistance,” whom the US assassinated last week. On this week’s Kicker, Kyle Po...
10 Jan 202015min
