Danny Funt
The Fine Print
New York, NY, United States
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A Columnist Fails to Meet the Press
Nicholas Kristof pledged to apply the full “communication toolbox” of journalism to his run for Oregon governor but struggled with the basics of interacting with reporters during his ill-fated campaign → Read More
All In
Gamblers would give anything to peek at Ian Rapoport’s notes. In late April, Rapoport—a reporter at the NFL Network, known on air as an “insider”—was sitting on a scoop about the draft’s most intriguing story line. Until then, it had been considered a done deal that the San Francisco 49ers would select an Alabama quarterback named Mac Jones with the third overall pick; bettors, expected to risk… → Read More
All In
Gamblers would give anything to peek at Ian Rapoport’s notes. In late April, Rapoport—a reporter at the NFL Network, known on air as an “insider”—was sitting on a scoop about the draft’s most intriguing story line. Until then, it had been considered a done deal that the San Francisco 49ers would select an Alabama quarterback named Mac Jones with the third overall pick; bettors, expected to risk… → Read More
Television is making more documentaries than ever—but skipping the journalism
Hillary Clinton was ready to bare her soul, or so Hulu subscribers were told in March. After missing her shot at the presidency, Clinton would, at last, let her guard down. A four-part documentary promised to reveal the true Clinton, anchored by two thousand hours of fly-on-the-wall footage from her 2016 campaign and thirty-five hours […] → Read More
Television is making more documentaries than ever—but skipping the journalism
Hillary Clinton was ready to bare her soul, or so Hulu subscribers were told in March. After missing her shot at the presidency, Clinton would, at last, let her guard down. A four-part documentary promised to reveal the true Clinton, anchored by two thousand hours of fly-on-the-wall footage from her 2016 campaign and thirty-five hours […] → Read More
Can National Review do more than preach to the choir?
If National Review once resembled an elite seminary, the new publisher, E. Garrett Bewkes IV, hopes to transform it into a megachurch. He plans to grow the magazine’s audience and revitalize its influence mainly by overhauling a derelict digital product. Though financially and philosophically daring, that agenda is now a matter of necessity. NR’s membership has […] → Read More
Can National Review do more than preach to the choir?
If National Review once resembled an elite seminary, the new publisher, E. Garrett Bewkes IV, hopes to transform it into a megachurch. He plans to grow the magazine’s audience and revitalize its influence mainly by overhauling a derelict digital product. Though financially and philosophically daring, that agenda is now a matter of necessity. NR’s membership has […] → Read More
Physicians Unite on Twitter, Divide on Practice
The physician community on Twitter is a vibrant, diverse one. But the platform's use in and out of the clinic is still subject to debate. → Read More
How sports media fell back in love with fighting
When my high school friends and I saw the May 2008 issue of ESPN The Magazine at our hometown supermarket, reading about Kimbo Slice felt like we were ogling one of the plastic-wrapped publications in the back row. We had been mesmerized by YouTube clips of Kimbo pulling up bare-chested to Florida backyards and, for a […] → Read More
What does it mean for a journalist today to be a Serious Reader?
Before the books arrived, Adam Gopnik, in an effort to be polite, almost contradicted the essential insight of his life. An essayist, critic, and reporter at The New Yorker for the last 31 years, he was asked whether there is an imperative for busy, ambitious journalists to read books seriously—especially with journalism, and not just White […] → Read More
What happens in Vegas, Norm Clarke knows
FOR 17 YEARS, GOSSIP IN LAS VEGAS wasn’t gossip for long. Until Norm Clarke retired from the Review-Journal last summer, what may have started as whispers among blackjack dealers, cab drivers, or casino managers could be found on page 3A as reliable facts. “Las Vegas had become the center of the universe for entertainment in many […] → Read More
Newspaper endorsements are imperiled for the same reasons they’re now urgently needed
After agonizing over the editorial for months, The Arizona Republic chose a Wednesday night in late September, with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump essentially tied in statewide polls, to back a Democrat for president for the first time... → Read More
Newspaper endorsements are imperiled for the same reasons they’re now urgently needed
After agonizing over the editorial for months, The Arizona Republic chose a Wednesday night in late September, with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump essentially tied in statewide polls, to back a Democrat for president for the first time in the paper’s 126-year history. The endorsement exceeded a million views online, making it the Republic’s most-read […] → Read More
Newspaper endorsements are imperiled for the same reasons they’re now urgently needed
After agonizing over the editorial for months, The Arizona Republic chose a Wednesday night in late September, with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump essentially tied in statewide polls, to back a Democrat for president for the first time in the paper’s 126-year history. The endorsement exceeded a million views online, making it the Republic’s most-read […] → Read More
A compulsive audience and a complicit news media
In 2007, two years after the launch of The Huffington Post and two weeks before the incorporation of Twitter, Arianna Huffington collapsed in her office from fatigue. She regained consciousness in a pool of blood with a broken... → Read More
A compulsive audience and a complicit news media
When is a distribution method that harms users’ brains no longer an acceptable cost of doing business? → Read More
Can narrative journalism overcome the political divide?
No self-respecting liberal would trust anything written on Breitbart, and every self-respecting conservative knows that The New York Times is a liberal rag controlled by people with New York values. Combine that with with the echo-chamber of social... → Read More
The New Yorker, BuzzFeed, and the push for digital credibility
It's one of magazine journalism's most pressing questions: How can publications that have long captivated print consumers earn the trust of wary online readers? As the internet solidifies its role as a leading news source amid continued declines... → Read More
Why we trust, and why that’s changing online
Print anachronisms had DJ Khaled ranting recently. The record producer is one of the most-followed people on Snapchat, in part for his superhuman good cheer. But in an interview last fall with SiriusXM’s Sway in the Morning, Khaled... → Read More
Why we trust, and why that’s changing online
Print anachronisms had DJ Khaled ranting recently. The record producer is one of the most-followed people on Snapchat, in part for his superhuman good cheer. But in an interview last fall with SiriusXM’s Sway in the Morning, Khaled... → Read More