What was the Notorious RBG like as a source?
How did Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg view the press? And how far did the mythology we built around the “Great Dissenter” stray from reality?On this week’s Kicker, Betsy West, co-director ...
25 Sep 202023min
“Eugenics” in Georgia
The forcible sterilizations of female detainees at an immigration detention center in Georgia comprise a new level of cruelty. But ICE health care systems are known to replicate those of American pris...
18 Sep 202021min
We were all raised here: Rochester, Daniel Prude, and a terrible breach of trust
Editor Sheila Rayam and reporter Georgie Silvarole both grew up in Rochester, New York. So did the city’s former Police Chief La'Ron Singletary and Mayor Lovely Warren. When Rochester’s Democrat & Chr...
11 Sep 202025min
“Like shooting a gun in the dark” — a New York City principal and the education beat
As long-time middle school principal and COVID survivor Lisa Edmiston prepares to reopen her middle school in Astoria, she has worked to manage the fear shared by her staff and students. She has also ...
28 Aug 202022min
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 Aug 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 Aug 202023min
Stephen Sackur and Interviewing Trump
Stephen Sackur and Interviewing Trump by Columbia Journalism Review
7 Aug 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 Juli 202037min
