journalism

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/9/2020
  

  Cienfuegos Must also Answer for the Apatzingán Massacre

  by Laura Castellanos

  The former Secretary of National Defense for Mexico has been arrested on charges related to drug trafficking. He must face accountability for overseeing a security regime that perpetrated coordinated violence against journalists and civilians. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/8/2020
  

  Seymour Topping, Former Times Journalist and Eyewitness to History, Dies at 98

  "For Mr. Topping, known universally to colleagues as Top, the story was always about more than the day’s news developments, intriguing as they might be. It was about their historical significance, too."

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• SOURCE: RetroReport
  11/5/2020
  

  Inside Retro Report's Fact Checking Process

  Joe Hogan, head of fact-checking at Retro Report, explains why fact-checking is a needed skill today.

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  11/5/2020
  

  President Trump’s False Claims about Election Fraud are Dangerous

  by Sid Bedingfield

  Elected officials' use of the media to claim election fraud has resulted in violence in the past; the news media must take responsibility to avoid fanning the flames. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/26/2020
  

  What Do Foreign Correspondents Think of the U.S.?

  Journalists from around the world are reporting on the 2020 Presidential race—and offering perspectives not found in American media coverage.

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  11/3/2020
  

  Good TV Demands Results on Election Night, But that’s Bad for Democracy

  by Kathryn Cramer Brownell

  Election night 2020 promises to test whether the media has learned from failures of the past. 

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• SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review
  10/26/2020
  

  Q&A: Historian Rick Perlstein on Media ‘Bothsidesism,’ and Why 2020 Definitely Isn’t 1968

  Rick Perlstein has been reluctant to do media appearances, perceiving that journalists may use historical analogy as a shortcut to investigating and explaining the present. He discusses his thoughts on history and the media with CJR. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  10/28/2020
  

  The 1619 Project and Uses and Abuses of History

  by Stephen Mintz

  By focusing on narrow questions of fact and interpretive claims in the project in an effort to discredit it, critics of the 1619 Project have mostly failed to engage with big questions about how to do history. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/28/2020
  

  New York Times, CNN Sullied By ‘Anonymous’ Charade

  by Eric Wemple

  Post media critic Eric Wemple says the media allowed "Anonymous" to float the belief that responsible public servants were checking the worst impulses of the Trump administration when, in fact, they accomplished nothing of the sort.

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• SOURCE: Untapped New York
  10/19/2020
  

  New PBS Documentary on New York Gossip Columnist Walter Winchell

  Walter Winchell's gossip-driven approach to the news made him famous; his fame helped publicize the dangers of Nazism and overcome American isolationism before World War II. A new PBS documentary considers his career and legacy.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10/20/2020
  

  "The Atlantic" and the Limits of Reasonableness

  A new collection of writing from the venerable magazine highlights the struggles of rational argument and civil discourse in the age of Donald Trump. 

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• SOURCE: Vice News and Retro Report
  10/14/2020
  

  Enemies of the People: Donald Trump and the Political Press

  A Vice News and Retro Report collaboration on the media coverage of the 2016 campaign asks what responsibility the news media bears for the election result.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/30/2020
  

  The Debate Showed That Treating Trump ‘Fairly’ Only Helps Him Cheat

  by Brendan Nyhan

  "Will the media accurately describe Trump’s attacks on the election as dangerous and anti-democratic? Or will they run faux-neutral headlines like “Pure chaos on election night” if he says the vote is being stolen and tries to declare victory before all the votes are counted?"

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  9/24/2020
  

  This Vanishing Moment and Our Vanishing Future: John Hersey, Hiroshima, and the End of World

  by Nick Turse

  Lesley Blume's new book Fallout describes how John Hersey and his editors punctured official myths about the Hiroshima attacks to write his influential book. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  9/21/2020
  

  My Life in the Media Machine

  by Tom Scocca

  Independent journalism has been in a decades-long death spiral because "the circulatory system of money that had made the writing possible was punctured and bleeding out, and draining into Silicon Valley."

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• 9/13/2020
  

  The Pentagon is Missing the Big Picture on "Stars and Stripes"

  by Mark T. Hauser

  The Pentagon's plan to scrap funding for the Stars and Stripes newspaper isn't just an attack on a historic military institution. It's ignoring the lessons the paper's history offers for efficient operation and integrating military operations with the economic life of the nation. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/6/2020
  

  How Latinos Can Win the Culture War

  by Elizabeth Méndez Berry and Mónica Ramírez

  Latino/a Americans can secure their place in America against racist and nativist attacks by demanding representation in the news and entertainment media. The media have been important sources of power in the past, but are still not representative of American demographics. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/4/2020
  

  Overlooked No More: Before Kamala Harris, There Was Charlotta Bass

  Charlotta Bass led a remarkable life as a journalist and activist that, in many ways, helped lay the foundation for a figure like Harris, the first Black woman and first person of Indian descent to be nominated on a major-party ticket.

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  9/4/2020
  

  The Pentagon Has Ordered Stars And Stripes To Shut Down For No Good Reason

  "As a publication that’s underwritten by the military but not answerable to the brass, Stars and Stripes embodies that most American of values: the right to speak truth to power."

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• SOURCE: The New York Times
  8/25/2020
  

  The Never-Ending War Between the White House and the Press

  A review of Harold Holzer's new book "The President vs. The Press."