Journalism

Detail of portrait of Sarah Josepha Hale by James Reid Lambdin, c. 1831. (Public domain/Wikimedia) Writer and magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale succeeded in 19th-century America, against the odds, as Melanie Kirkpatrick lays out in…

Fox News’s Tucker Carlson accused the National Security Agency (NSA) Wednesday night of releasing the contents of his private emails and releasing his identity to at least one journalist, following his accusations of illegal spying by the…

Thanks to the climate chaos unleashed by global warming, extreme weather is getting more press now than ever. This can put journalists like you in quite a pickle if you’re writing about these deadly events but can’t mention the cause. Maybe…

On this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour, Siraj Hashmi, host of the Habibi Bros, joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how Twitter escalates conversations surrounding current events and why journalists using the platform to…

A USA Today “race and inclusion” editor was fired this week for using her professional Twitter account to report flagrant disinformation in the wake of a mass shooting. In response, she wrote a lengthy Medium post that briefly admitted…

NEW YORK CITY – BuzzFeed is encouraging readers to design their dream Disney date to help them determine which of the 70 journalists, producers, editors, and other workers they just laid off they are. BuzzFeed, which fired 28% of HuffPost’s…

Freedom in a Cage: An Interview With Chang Ping, Former News Director of Southern Weekend, Part Five Chang Ping, Yaxue Cao, February 28, 2021 2008 was a very special year for me too, personally…. (continued from Part One, Part Two, Part…

Freedom in a Cage: An Interview With Chang Ping, Former News Director of Southern Weekend, Part One Chang Ping, Yaxue Cao, February 23, 2021 Interviewer’s Note I first interviewed Chang Ping in Toronto when he received the CJFE 2016…

(Shannon Stapleton/Reuters) New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet has walked back a staff-wide email he sent last week to explain the ouster of reporter Donald McNeil Jr., who used the n-word on a 2019 Times trip to Peru for high…