Washington Post employees are asking Jeff Bezos for better pay, more job security, and other important things
If you have to ask a powerful person something, it’s good to open with some throat-clearing and good news. This is just how the Washington Post employees opened their recent petition to the… Read more »
According to two researchers, self-help only helps The Man
Go to any party today and it won’t take long for revelers to start chalking every lamentable injustice in their lives up to the inherent evils of capitalism (which, fair). And while… Read more »
Trump’s new national security advisor chaired a fake news outlet
For the Intercept, Lee Fang zeroes in on what is perhaps the most horrifying reason why John Bolton is not right for the job of National Security Advisor, to which Donald Trump recently… Read more »
Texas Monthly staffers leave one by one in the face of total mismanagement
The landmark, award-winning magazine of the great Lone Star State, Texas Monthly, is in the midst of an identity crisis, and we can most definitely blame the new owner: Texan… Read more »
Columbia Journalism Students organize a book drive for detained Reuters journalists in Myanmar
This past December, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two Reuters journalists, were unjustly detained in Myanmar following their coverage of the humanitarian crisis caused by ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in… Read more »
Cool story, bro: A fired newspaper editor painted himself as a would-be Lilly Ledbetter; the women he’s worked with aren’t as sure
If you’re looking to be an ally to women in this exciting post-Weinstein, #metoo moment, perhaps don’t use women’s pay equality as a prop in public rants against your former employers. And… Read more »
The Freedom of the Press Foundation has an idea to combat our “billionaire problem”
Responding to headlines that venture capitalist Peter Thiel hopes to purchase all of Gawker’s archives, the Freedom of the Press Foundation has announced it’s creating an archive of alternative media. The archive is a collaboration with Archive-it,… Read more »
Making troglodytes blush: When the editorial page goes off the deep end
It has been a weird and sad time for journalism of late in my adopted hometown of Pittsburgh. On Martin Luther King Day, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette’s publisher ran an editorial… Read more »
Teens do some serious journalism… and their school doesn’t like it one bit
After investigating the whereabouts of a well-liked, suddenly absent history teacher at their high school, two teenage journalists in Salt Lake City published a story on their school newspaper’s website. The… Read more »
The New York Times and the Case of the Disappearing Labor Poet
Last week, readers of the New York Times may have been excited to catch some very excellent literary news, in a report by Aimee Lee Ball titled “The Real Nanny Diaries.” The… Read more »