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- by Allissa V. Richardson and Miya Williams FayneIn 2020, as many Black people around the world fought both anti-Black racism and COVID-19, the Black press in the US was dealing with another widespread problem: an infodemic. Editors of Black digital publications were on the frontlines of dispelling racialized misinformation about COVID-19 while also reporting on protests for racial justice and the rising […]
- by Jon AllsopLast week, Politika, a storied newspaper in Serbia, published an op-ed by Xi Jinping, the president of China, who was visiting the country on a European tour in between trips to France and Hungary. Most of the article focused on the “ironclad friendship” between China and Serbia—a free-trade agreement; the popularity in China of Serbian […]
- by Jon AllsopIn 2006, I was asleep in a cabin on the Lofoten Islands, in the north of Norway, when my parents woke me up and told me to come outside. I thought a sea eagle must be flying over the house (we had been on a boat tour to watch them earlier in the day), but […]
- by Luke JohnsonIn late December, Poland’s public broadcaster descended into chaos. Two months earlier, Poles had elected former prime minister Donald Tusk for a third time, voting out a parliamentary slate of right-wing populists who, since 2015, had controlled the levers of government, including the state broadcaster, known as TVP. Under their watch, TVP’s news programs repeated […]
- by Cameron JosephShooting somebody in the middle of Fifth Avenue? That’s fine. Shooting your dog in a gravel pit? Not so much. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem’s (R) decision to brag about killing her dog Cricket in her forthcoming memoir has finally led to some negative right-wing media coverage of a major ally of Donald Trump. As […]
- by Mathew IngramIn December, the New York Times fired an early shot in the battle over whether it is legal for artificial intelligence engines such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT to scrape content from the Web as fodder for their databases. The Times made clear that it believes the answer is no: the paper sued OpenAI and Microsoft, which […]
- by Jon AllsopThis past Friday, May 3, was World Press Freedom Day. The date marks the anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration, a 1991 statement, named for the capital of Namibia, that asserted the need for “an independent and pluralistic African press.” As the UN puts it, the annual event is “a reminder to governments of the need […]
- by Cameron JosephNew York has become the first state to commit significant resources toward keeping local journalism alive. It’s a good start that the legislation’s proponents hope could serve as a national model to save struggling local news outlets—if it can be implemented properly. The Local Journalism Sustainability Act was included in New York’s recently passed state […]
- by Josh HershJelani Cobb is the dean of the Columbia Journalism School. He is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. For much of the past few weeks, he has been enmeshed in Columbia University’s efforts to grapple with a protest movement on campus over the war in Gaza—one that culminated in the takeover of a […]
- by Jon AllsopOne photo shows a counterprotester, their black-clad body a blur of motion, spraying a Palestine solidarity encampment with aerosol, its particles dissolving into a yellow haze in front of a person in a kaffiyeh, shielding behind a placard. Another shows a protester, their face in stunned close-up, angled toward the camera and visible between the […]