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Columnizing @GuardianUS . Thinking/teaching @columbiajourn … Knicks fan and #billsmafia . … Pro-democracy

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For Student Journalists: 20 tips for staying safe while covering protests. I’ll be posting more resources here but this is a great start. 1/x
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This 72-year-old civil rights activist, gunned down while grocery shopping yesterday, wrote a letter to the editor last year demanding stronger gun regulation. Linked herein. RIP, Kat Massey
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In 1972, when Title IX was passed, there were only 700 girls playing soccer at the high-school level in the whole United States. Now, nearly 400,000. From @moiradonegan , how public policy changes lives.
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The end of this is particularly gratifying
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Cameron Archibald ⬋⬋⬋
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That time when two 10 year olds just decided to destroy Andrew Neil on national TV
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. @AshleyRParker named new White House bureau chief for @washingtonpost — and that is richly deserved.
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In a world awash in disinformation, there’s no ‘both sides’ to the truth. The media must stop enabling liars. My column
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About as 🔥 as a university English department gets
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Quite an image of Times Square tonight
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Jerry Avenaim
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There are thousand of American's who have taken to the streets to protect our democracy. This is an amazing photograph taken over Trumps' home state of New York in Times Square. #TimesUp #ImpeachmentEve
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It's a good day not to be the Public Editor of the New York Times.
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CNN’s hiring of a GOP operative as political editor is even worse than it looks. ...My column on what this terrible hire says about 2020 coverage, whether CNN has learned anything (no) and the defensive addiction to both-sides 'journalism'
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It’s becoming clear that journalists never fully reckoned with the mistakes of 2016 campaign coverage. We know this because they seem poised to repeat them. My column
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This outrage should absolutely be a national story and a cause for journalistic solidarity. Shame these people … Police stage 'chilling' raid on Kansas newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones
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Trump wants America to ‘normalize’ coronavirus deaths. It’s the media’s job not to play along. ... New from me, about the dangerous rhetoric of ‘reopening’ and citizen ‘warriors’
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The national press faces its most difficult and important test of the Trump era starting Wednesday. Here's how they can ace it. (Beware of stunts; focus on substance not speculation; lose the mealy-mouthed language of false equivalence.) My column:
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What an embarrassment this editorial board is
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Brian Stelter
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WSJ editorial board: "The greatest irony of the age of Trump is that for all his violating of democratic norms, his frenzied opponents have done and are doing their own considerable damage to democracy."
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Nearly every woman I know with a public profile has been called the worst misogynistic names that exist. And sometimes threatened with violence. And for no reason except we dare to assert ourselves and our views. This is the disgusting norm.
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Katrina vandenHeuvel
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All power—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivers a searing indictment not only of Mr. Yoho but also of a culture that allows men to use abusive language and supports violence against women.
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Imagine if the mainstream media had used today’s skepticism, judgment and straight talk *all along* instead of letting Trump be their assignment editor for five years
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Here’s the crux of it
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“Facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they'll click on less ads, they'll make less money,” says Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen.
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This debate is just as unwatchable as the last one, though in a refreshingly new way!
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Reality Winner was the FBI’s ‘head on a pike’ for Trump. It’s time to set her free. ...My column, pegged to a new documentary that makes her mistreatment painfully clear
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By picking up the language of "caravan crisis" and "onslaught" -- and by allowing themselves to be manipulated -- the media does Trump's bidding. Again. ... My column
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Brutal first graf in ⁦ @KCStar ⁩ editorial on their senator and ringleader ⁦ @HawleyMO ⁩.
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5 years
This is appalling.
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Mark Follman
5 years
Anyone familiar with veteran reporter @abbydphillip knows she does great work. Watch Trump demean the presidency as he tries to humiliate her on TV—"What a stupid question," he sneers, after she asks a smart question about a huge story that he won't answer
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Read ⁦ @Will_Bunch ⁩ who pulls no punches, actually reports and may well be the best columnist working. … Journalism fails miserably at explaining what is really happening to America.
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The reality-based press must grab Americans by the lapels to communicate the dangers of a second Trump presidency. Here’s how. … My new column
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Since this is an especially good day for calling out the names of those to blame, here are a few more, from the leadership of Fox News: Rupert Murdoch. Lachlan Murdoch. Suzanne Scott ... My column, on the pro-Trump media that brought us to this hellscape
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I can't imagine how many thousands of women, around the world, are in tears as they listen to Christine Blasey Ford's voice cracking.
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The Murdochs should put decency above dollars, but they won’t. My column on Tucker Carlson, Ukraine and what Fox’s own lawyers admitted his show is really all about
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Let’s not do this
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POLITICO
3 years
Americans got a glimpse of Donald Trump’s post-presidential office for the first time today. So we did a deep dive to figure out which mementos he chose to keep around for his new Florida life.
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My conclusion
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You say you want a media reckoning? Here's mine. ... New column: Serious journalists should be proud of — not bullied over — their Russia reporting
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Stephanie Grisham is not the worst-ever White House press secretary. She’s not a press secretary at all. ... My column
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Pay our salaries
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The hazards of access journalism when the access is to the likes of Mick Mulvaney. My column: read for free, no paywall here
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I like and respect @JillAbramson but I disagree with this. As Jeff Zucker (whom I have criticized for other things) put it, being pro-truth should not be mistaken for being anti-Trump.
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The Hill
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Former New York Times editor slams paper's articles as "unmistakably anti-Trump"
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I agree. Why would you do this to your kid? And I don't mean the getting-caught part. I mean the way these parents refused to see and appreciate their children for who they are, and wanted instead to wear them as accessories.
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Mark Follman
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The college admissions scandal has sparked a ton of outrage and rightfully so, but I think more than anything I find it profoundly sad.
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Three research studies now give devastating weight to what many intuitively knew: That Fox and other pro-Trump media lulled their audiences into not taking coronavirus seriously in the crucial early days. My column, building on @_cingraham 's analysis:
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The reality-based press must grab Americans by the lapels to communicate the dangers of a second Trump presidency. Here’s how. … My new column
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The depths of the misogyny here (not to mention the stunning lack of news judgment): Covering the impeachment of a president by insulting and demeaning the female House Speaker
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Oliver Darcy
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The Thursday front page of Murdoch's @nypost
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Why are people so shocked that women age?
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scott poulson-bryant
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um, she looks like the 71yo version of the 30yo woman on the right.
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New research explores how conservative media misinformation may have intensified the severity of the pandemic
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I guess I'm gonna re-up this in light of ... today
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. @Sulliview : “Not a single administration statement deserves to be taken at face value. That privilege has been forfeited.”
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There are many things to say about the Tom Cotton oped, and I said some, and might say some more. ... But here's a useful and common norm in a newsroom: "Hey, boss, you might want to take a look at this one before it runs."
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The disinformation system that Trump unleashed will outlast him. Here’s what reality-based journalists must do about it. ...My new column:
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Call a lie a lie. Use ‘racist’ when it clearly is. And don’t call election meddling an ‘audit.’ Because word choices matter. Here’s a link to read my new column without running into the paywall
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4 years
If there ever was a must-read:
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Brian Stelter
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WaPo's Sunday lead story: "70 days of denial, delays and dysfunction."
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The audio
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Female interviewer, check. Fox News, check. Bill Shine approved, check. When an "exclusive interview" promises to be a challenge-free infomercial.
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ErikWemple
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Wow: Tonight, Fox News's Martha MacCallum will have an exclusive interview with Judge Brett Kavanaugh and his wife Ashley Estes Kavanaugh
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I don’t know if these newspaper editorials matter much. But I know I’m impressed that the editorial boards have the guts to write them. Because in this era of chain ownership and ‘oh dear, divided America,’ it does take guts.
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Bill Grueskin
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Milwaukee Journal: Ron Johnson should resign Kansa City Star: Josh Hawley will have to be removed Houston Chronicle: Resign, Ted Cruz St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Hawley should resign
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Entire conversation, overheard on line at Walgreens: — So, are you doing anything for New Year’s? — No
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How Putin’s full-scale information war got a key assist from Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and others in right-wing media. My column. (Read for free; no paywall here)
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I wrote about how Trump keeps playing the media like a puppet. Yes, we’ve gotten better — but history will not judge us kindly.
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This trial is so profoundly disturbing. The video clips, the evidence, and the context. I wish every citizen were watching with an open mind.
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I sometimes joke “it’s another good day not to be the New York Times public editor” but the organization could *really* use one right now to investigate on behalf of the readers
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Ryan Grim
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Multiple NYT sources tell me that the paper is now cutting ties with Anat Schwarz after her social media history — “turn Gaza into a slaughterhouse” — was exposed. Her explosive article shaped public understanding of 10/7 yet the team at The Daily has still been unable to produce…
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Kellyanne Conway undermined the truth like no other Trump official. And journalists enabled her. ... My column as Conway speaks tonight and departs White House in a few days
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Not just in Buffalo but everywhere, Its high time for local journalists to reckon with the racism we overlooked. My column. Read here; no paywall
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A prescription for campaign coverage that recognizes we’re in dangerous territory — and adjusts accordingly. My column. No paywall. -30-
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Our democracy is under attack. Washington journalists must stop treating it like politics as usual. …I offer a prescription for how news-organization leadership can radically reframe its coverage. … My column:
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Margaret Sullivan
3 years
Extremely unusual. Seems appropriate.
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Bill Grueskin
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution puts its editorial above the banner today: "Sens. Loeffler and Perdue have assaulted Georgia's election system"
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Tucker Carlson’s nightly show does a great deal to portray nonwhites as the dangerous “other,” a force to be beaten back to save America. His denials and rhetoric must be called out for the lies that they are. My column:
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I just wrote the last words of my last column. (It’ll run online Sunday morning; in print in @PostStyle on Monday.) Well, it’s been a pretty fun 42 years in newspapers. Overall.
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How is it possible that today is more bizarre and disturbing than yesterday?
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Look at this thread from Dec 21
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Arieh Kovler
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On January 6, armed Trumpist militias will be rallying in DC, at Trump's orders. It's highly likely that they'll try to storm the Capitol after it certifies Joe Biden's win. I don't think this has sunk in yet.
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Margaret Sullivan
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Maybe @TIME ought to change its definition of those deserving recognition — given the time we live in.
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Michele Norris
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This right here is my person of the year. May blessings rain down on you and your fellow Capitol Police Officers.
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@BGrueskin Her last dinner out shouldn't have been memorable; still, she thought about it longingly, even dreamt about it, until the day she died, which was three weeks later, in a Central Park tent funded by Billy Graham's son.
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Barr/Trump call and response is very fine Kabuki theater, and MSM is applauding appropriately.
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When this was published on March 11, there were 30 deaths in the U.S. caused by the coronavirus
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Rupert Murdoch could save lives by forcing Fox News to tell the truth about coronavirus — right now.
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Yes, well, it costs money to employ 700+ journalists, y'see.
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Margaret Sullivan
6 months
This will be official tomorrow so I won’t say much now, other than I’m thrilled to have this opportunity, and hope to help with some of the big questions and problems we face. Thanks for all the kind words!
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Ben Mullin
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some news: @sulliview will be the next executive director of the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics at Columbia Journalism School
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The Democratic field is historically diverse, but the media love is lavished on three white men. My column. ... Beto, Biden and Bernie: The B-Boys and the media’s dangerous, self-fulfilling prophecy
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Yeah, something *is* embarrassing here but it’s not Kamala Harris
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"Wassup" + laugh + Mary J is tingling the racism sensors
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Nobody listens to me
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The media must stop live-broadcasting Trump’s dangerous, destructive coronavirus briefings. My column
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She mailed a single, five page document, anonymously. It told an important truth, and made a difference. And she got the longest prison sentence of anyone who ever shared secret information with the press. And that's just the start. The details are horrible and stunning
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Reality Winner was the FBI’s ‘head on a pike’ for Trump. It’s time to set her free. ...My column, pegged to a new documentary that makes her mistreatment painfully clear
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Journalists must put down the megaphone and cover Trump’s candidacy with far more skepticism, context — and respect for democracy. Excerpt from my book, NEWSROOM CONFIDENTIAL, no paywall:
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I’d take that hed size up a few notches
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The AP’s treatment of 22-year-old journalist Emily Wilder shows how much newsroom managers still have to learn about bad-faith attacks and online harassment of their staffers, seven years after Gamergate should have taught them. My column
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If the huge swaths of the public believe American jobs are shrinking when the opposite is true, the news media needs to do better. Here’s how. My column. (No paywall)
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The Sanders-Warren ‘feud’ and Ukraine revelations are nowhere near equal in importance. Try telling the media that. ... My new column
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Never again should a media organization put one of Trump’s bullying nicknames in a headline. Or a tweet. Or a chyron. Or a news alert. ... My new column
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