Nausicaa Renner
The Intercept
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Tiffany Cabán Stuns Queens Machine, Holds Solid Lead in Race for Queens District Attorney
Cabán ran on ending cash bail, decriminalizing poverty and sex work, and faced the full weight of the machine. → Read More
Flores, Biden, and deciding what’s newsworthy
On Friday, The Cut published a first-person piece by Lucy Flores, a member of the Nevada State Assembly. Flores recounts an incident that took place in 2014, when she was running for lieutenant governor of the state. Just before walking onstage at a campaign event, Vice President Joe Biden came up behind her, smelled her […] → Read More
Journalists weren’t part of a conspiracy. They were doing their jobs.
On Monday morning, glowing from the conclusion of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and the delivery of Attorney General William Barr’s letter to Congress, Donald Trump tweeted a quote from Bret Baier, of Fox News: “No American conspired to cooperate with Russia in its efforts to interfere with the 2016 election, according to Robert Mueller, […] → Read More
The stakes of the Mueller report for the media
Bear with me as I go full meta. Here in the offices of Columbia Journalism Review, we’ve been struggling to figure out how to cover the rumored imminent appearance of the Mueller report. It’s a quintessential press story, if only because the Mueller report is occupying the mind of every political reporter in the country. […] → Read More
To fight polarization, give yourself some breathing room
The midterms have finally arrived. The bloviation of politicians and the media is briefly hushed, in quiet anticipation of the verdict of voters. For one day only, the mood is equal parts reflective and tense. Social media has turned to chipper selfies, with friends reminding friends to go to the polls—as if anyone in America […] → Read More
As men try to come back after #MeToo, journalists weigh the size of truth
It’s been a year since The New York Times and The New Yorker broke news of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assaults against women and the attempts he made to cover up his actions. In that time, conversations about sexual harassment, especially in the entertainment and media industries, have matured. But in journalism—which has rallied behind, and […] → Read More
The media bullying of Christine Blasey Ford
Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony on her alleged sexual assault by Brett Kavanaugh, a nominee to the Supreme Court, which she is giving now before the Senate Judiciary Committee, is impressive and upsetting. In her opening statement this morning, she had an important message for reporters: the media had intimidated her into coming forward. “I’m terrified,” […] → Read More
On the confessions of fallen men
Let’s put aside content for the moment, and talk about form. In the past week, at least five pieces of journalism have been published as residue of the #MeToo movement. There were three with men’s accounts (John Hockenberry, a former Takeaway host, in Harper’s; Jian Ghomeshi, a former CBC host, in The New York Review […] → Read More
Fighting over a seat at the table in political coverage
The conversation about “civility” in the political sphere is now about a week old. Or a few decades old, depending on how you count it. After White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was asked to leave by the owner of Red Hen restaurant in Virginia last weekend, Twitter erupted over whether “civility” should be […] → Read More
Podcast: Breaking down coverage of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory
On this episode of The Kicker, Pete and Nausicaa talk about coverage of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s surprise primary victory and how certain media outlets missed the story. Then, we dive into the idea of “civility” in journalism, and the continued debate over coverage of Trump voters. Finally, we discuss Sarah Sanders’s continued from the White House […] → Read More
Podcast: How media pressure forced Trump’s hand on border policy
On the latest episode of The Kicker, Pete and Nausicaa talk about coverage of the border crisis that has been dominating national news for the past week. The public outrage that forced President Trump to sign an executive order attempting to end the crisis that he created wouldn’t have happened without sustained media coverage. What […] → Read More
It took a tabloid journalist to master a tabloid president
Michael Wolff’s brand of journalism might be ugly—prioritizing access over accountability—but it’s the perfect match for the Trump era. Often this year, The New York Times has faced backlash for being too nice. Critics picked apart White House reporter Michael Schmidt over the holidays for soft-balling an interview with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, trading the responsibility […] → Read More
The media today: Don’t blame the election on fake news. Blame it on the media.
Just after last year’s election, a flurry of criticism alleged that the media treated Hillary Clinton like the next president and Donald Trump like a celebrity curiosity. Between front-page coverage of “her emails” and a willingness to look past early reporting on Trump’s ties to Russia, the navel-gazing focus was on whether we, the media, […] → Read More
The media today: Journalists vs. hackers
Earlier this month, ProPublica’s investigative star Julia Angwin wrote about a strange attack on her reporting team: Each staff member had their inboxes flooded with email—newsletter confirmation emails, spam, so much to sift through that it became impossible to work. Angwin highlighted the incident as one simple example of how easy it can be to […] → Read More
The Media Today: The ‘fake news’ focus shifts to YouTube
YouTube has been largely overlooked in the national discussion about the spread of fake news, which typically centers around Facebook and Twitter. But that is changing. Last week, writer James Bridle posted on Medium about the booming world of online videos for children. Bridle explores a world of automatically generated videos based on children’s content […] → Read More
The media today: 8 strategies for saving local newsrooms
Christopher Ali and Damian Radcliffe, fellows at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, are on a mission to breathe some optimism into the narrative about local news. While the industry as a whole is already mourning the death of hometown papers, interviews from around the country tell a different story. In “8 strategies for saving […] → Read More
The media today: Social platforms grilled on Russia
Welcome to November. Tuesday was day one of long-anticipated Congressional hearings with representatives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Russia’s presence on the social platforms as it attempted to influence the 2016 election is now well established, and the testimony confirmed that. What still isn’t clear is what impact the attempts actually had. The platforms confirmed […] → Read More
The media today: ‘I’m very mad at Mark Zuckerberg’
Conversations about algorithmic curation of news, whether on Facebook, Twitter, or Reddit, typically happen between industry experts: publishers, journalists, and tech companies. Less is known about how everyday news consumers understand news curation. It turns out they have a lot to say. The Tow Center for Digital Journalism conducted 13 focus groups about media diet […] → Read More
The media today: Algorithms at City Hall
The New York City Council Committee for Technology meeting on Monday was the most attended hearing in the committee’s recent history, recalled Chair James Vacca. The topic? A proposed bill that would require algorithmic transparency among New York City agencies. “Algorithm” is a loose term at best, but in this case it refers to automated […] → Read More
The media today: The tip of the Russian iceberg
With every week that goes by, the extent of Russian involvement in American political life seems to deepen. This past week, Jonathan Albright, research director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, shed light in The Washington Post on the reach of Russian posts on Facebook, and the range of other sites touched by the foreign […] → Read More