Meg Dalton
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In Connecticut, low electric vehicle supply threatens transportation goals
Environmental advocates are pushing to make buying and owning electric vehicles in the state easier. → Read More
Connecticut historic preservation boards warming up to solar panels
Historic preservation boards, traditionally hostile to aesthetic disruptions, are seeing more requests related to solar panels and increasingly finding compromise. → Read More
Is the news media complicit in spreading rape culture?
While he was driving to work one day, Matthew Baum heard something on the radio that stuck with him. It was 2013, and NPR was playing a sound bite from CNN about the Steubenville rape case. In response to the guilty verdict, correspondent Poppy Harlow expressed a questionable amount of sympathy for the alleged rapists, […] → Read More
Reveal-ing abuses at rehab work camps
JOURNALISM HAS A COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP with Facebook, which many view as a serious threat to the Fourth Estate. But for Amy Julia Harris and Shoshana Walter, reporters for the Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal, a trail of Facebook friends led to a groundbreaking, months-long investigation into abuses at rehab work camps. Harris and Walter were on […] → Read More
Podcast: Platforms and publishers
On this week’s episode, we’re returning to one of our favorite topics—the relationship between platforms and publishers. Pete sat down with Emily Bell, director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia, to better understand what Facebook and other platforms are up to. Emily recently presented at the Global Editors Network Summit in Portugal, […] → Read More
With Bundy story, the national media slowly learns how to cover the American West
ON A FRIDAY IN LATE MARCH, reporter Leah Sottile and her producer Ryan Haas drove up the road to Bundy Ranch near Bunkerville, Nevada. Four years earlier, the now-infamous cattle rancher Cliven Bundy had led an armed standoff there against the federal government over grazing fees. The two weren’t sure if they would meet Bundy, […] → Read More
Podcast: Let’s talk about class and journalism
Journalism has a class problem. If you aren’t independently wealthy, the path into the industry isn’t easy, especially if your professional aspirations are national in scope. Yet conversations about class and journalism are largely absent from newsrooms. On this week’s episode, we talk to Sarah Jones, staff writer at The New Republic, about this taboo […] → Read More
When the math doesn’t work
I landed my first full-time journalism job in early 2016, when I was 26. It was a business reporter gig at the Greenwich Time, a small daily newspaper in southwestern Connecticut. For years, I had tried to break into the industry. With zero experience—I couldn’t afford unpaid internships—my (probably) ill-conceived pitches got me nowhere, and rejection […] → Read More
Podcast: Taking the buyout
On this week’s episode, Peter Corbett gives a firsthand account of an experience that’s become commonplace among journalists over the past decade. The former Arizona Republic reporter spent 23 years at the regional powerhouse before taking a buyout in 2016. He’s one of several journalists in a story by Monica Potts in our new Jobs […] → Read More
Podcast: Can the marriage between Facebook and journalism be saved?
On this week’s episode, CJR board member and founder of The Information Jessica Lessin interviews Facebook executive Adam Mosseri. Their conversation was recorded at a May 17 conference co-hosted by CJR and The Information in San Francisco. Lessin presses Mosseri on Facebook’s responsibility to publishers and whether the marriage between journalism and the social media […] → Read More
Podcast: A unified campaign against Alden Global Capital
On this week’s episode, Meg reports on a rally in Midtown Manhattan against Alden Golden Capital, the owner of Digital First Media properties such as The Denver Post. Journalists from all over the country traveled to the Lipstick Building on East 53rd Street to air their grievances against the hedge fund, mainly focused on censorship […] → Read More
A unified front against Alden Global Capital makes its way to New York
Megaphone in hand, George Kelly looks energized despite his red-eye flight to New York City. Kelly, a breaking news reporter at the East Bay Times, traveled 3,000 miles from Oakland to deliver a message: “Be proud of the work you do. Be proud of the communities you serve. Be ashamed of the people hundreds of […] → Read More
Podcast: Rukmini Callimachi on covering ISIS
Rukmini Callimachi’s husband unfriended her on Facebook. She doesn’t tell her New York Times colleagues where she lives. Those are just a few of the precautions she’s taken since she started reporting on terrorism and the Islamic State. On this week’s episode, Meg spoke with Callimachi about the dangerous beat and how her new podcast, […] → Read More
One Alabama newspaper’s business model features a chair and cigar box
For almost a century, a single wooden chair has been sitting on the aptly named Rural Street in Evergreen, Alabama. Nobody knows exactly how long “the chair,” as it’s simply and lovingly called, has been there. Most say since at least World War II, or even the 1920s—as long as the Bozeman family has owned […] → Read More
Podcast: A tale of two tariffs
This week on The Kicker, Meg sits down with Jon Allsop, CJR Delacorte Fellow, to break down how a new tariff on newsprint could cost jobs at publishers in the United States. Then, Pete and Jon are joined by CJR Delacorte Fellow Karen K. Ho to discuss the week’s biggest media stories, including an update […] → Read More
One legal case could open a can of worms for defamation suits against writers
Four not-so-simple words—“deemed to have received”—might determine the future of defamation suits against journalists in the United States. On April 9, journalist (and former Gawker freelancer) Ryan Goldberg appeared at a one-day bench trial at the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York while lawyers tossed around the phrase until it lost […] → Read More
A Pulitzer preview
Today is the day. Journalism’s top honors will be announced at Columbia starting at 3pm EST. Now in its 102nd year, the Pulitzer Prizes are the nation’s oldest and most prestigious journalism awards, with a total of 14 categories from feature writing to editorial cartooning to public service (plus another seven categories for art, literature, and […] → Read More
Podcast: The Zuckerberg Chronicles
This week on The Kicker, Meg sits down with Sam Thielman, CJR’s new Tow Editor, to break down Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional hearings. Then, Senior Staff Writer Alexandria Neason and Delacorte Fellow Jon Allsop join Pete to discuss the some of biggest media stories of the week, including the fallout at the Denver Post […] → Read More
The culture beat is changing under Trump. Should it?
The best culture writers move beyond a piece of art or entertainment to examine larger trends—the power of Michelle Obama’s image, the fetishization of the “cool girl,” the oversexualization of the black male body. They use a cultural moment—an awards ceremony, a new Netflix miniseries, an album release—to discuss what it really means to be […] → Read More
Podcast: CNN’s Nima Elbagir on her investigation into Libya’s slave trade
This week on The Kicker, Pete sits down with Nima Elbagir, CNN’s senior international correspondent, who was in town to accept a Polk Award for her reporting on the Libyan slave trade. Then, Senior Staff Writer Alexandria Neason and Delacorte Fellow Jon Allsop join Pete to discuss the some of biggest media stories of the […] → Read More