Chava Gourarie
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Reporting around ICE
In June, Jay Root, a reporter for the Texas Tribune, went to meet a man he called Carlos at a detention center in Livingston, Texas. Carlos, a 24-year-old from Honduras, had been there for several weeks. Now he faced Root from across a plexiglass screen. Over a scratchy phone connection, Root asked, “Can you memorize […] → Read More
The faith filter: How conservatives parse the news
At a rally in Tennessee in late May, President Donald Trump reiterated a rallying cry about the dangerous MS-13 gang. “They’re not human beings. They’re not human beings,” Trump said to an approving crowd. “And this is why we call the bloodthirsty MS-13 gang members exactly the name that I used last week. What was […] → Read More
Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming it’s journalistic
Update, April 15: Google both won and lost the first ‘right to be forgotten’ case in England on April 13, when a judge dismissed the claims of the first claimant and upheld those of the second, ruling that Google must delist the requested URLs in his case. The High Court judge made a distinction between […] → Read More
Newsroom leader Dean Yates has a new mission
Dean Yates encountered and documented plenty of tragic events over 20 years as a journalist with Reuters, from a nightclub massacre that killed 202 in Bali to a tsunami in Indonesia that killed 165,000. But of everything he’s seen, two deaths haunt him most: Those of his Iraqi staff members who were gunned down in […] → Read More
Q&A: Chris Arnade on his year embedded with Trump supporters
Chris Arnade has lived in Trump country for much of the last year, sleeping in motels in Midwestern factory towns, talking up old factory hands at restaurants, sharing laments about how the country has gone to shit. The... → Read More
How the 'alt-right' checkmated the media
When Hillary Clinton in a speech last week uttered the phrase “alt-right,” devotees flocked to the internet to celebrate the moment as the legitimization they’d been waiting for. “The meme is mightier than the sword,” exalted one alt-right... → Read More
How the 'alt-right' checkmated the media
When Hillary Clinton in a speech last week uttered the phrase “alt-right,” devotees flocked to the internet to celebrate the moment as the legitimization they’d been waiting for. “The meme is mightier than the sword,” exalted one alt-right... → Read More
How the ‘alt-right’ checkmated the media
When Hillary Clinton in a speech last week uttered the phrase “alt-right,” devotees flocked to the internet to celebrate the moment as the legitimization they’d been waiting for. “The meme is mightier than the sword,” exalted one alt-right Twitter user. “It’s happening!” a user posted to the infamous message board 4chan, with a link to […] → Read More
Washington Post bot gets a floor exercise in Rio
It’s the summer of bots, after a spring of bots, probably before an autumn of bots. At the Republican and Democratic conventions, news outlets trotted out their new experiments: BuzzFeed’s Facebook messenger bot collected news, The Washington Post’s... → Read More
The FOIA process can be messy. Muckrock hopes to tidy it up.
The team behind Muckrock, a nonprofit that helps users navigate the FOIA process, launched a project today that aims to catalog all of the reasons state agencies give for rejecting FOIA requests. In doing so, they hope to... → Read More
His photos are striking and real. But is Chris Arnade a journalist?
I met Chris Arnade at the McDonald’s near the 6 train, under the bridge that breaks Hunt’s Point off from the rest of the Bronx. Arnade calls it the most dysfunctional McDonald’s in the United States, and he... → Read More
His photos are striking and real. But is Chris Arnade a journalist?
I met Chris Arnade at the McDonald’s near the 6 train, under the bridge that breaks Hunt’s Point off from the rest of the Bronx. Arnade calls it the most dysfunctional McDonald’s in the United States, and he would know. His latest photo essay demonstrates how the restaurant serves as an impromptu community center, a […] → 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
The fundamental dilemma of covering the Orlando shooting
In the immediate aftermath of Sunday morning’s massacre at Pulse, an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida, newsrooms across the country grappled with familiar questions, beginning with the four W’s: Who was the shooter? Who were the victims? When... → Read More
The fundamental dilemma of covering the Orlando shooting
In the immediate aftermath of Sunday morning’s massacre at Pulse, an LGBT nightclub in Orlando, Florida, newsrooms across the country grappled with familiar questions, beginning with the four W’s: Who was the shooter? Who were the victims? When did it start? When will it end? What happened during a three-hour standoff between police and the […] → Read More
Why Samantha Bee is the political commentator we've been waiting for
The commentariat has decided that Samantha Bee is angry. Vulture labeled her style “vicious indignation,” a step up from Jon Stewart’s trademark righteous indignation; Jezebel readers remarked appreciatively on her “unabashed anger” and “deliciously incendiary” commentary; and the... → Read More
Gawker can’t hide its bad behavior behind press freedom
Earlier this month, a Gawker reporter unleashed a mini-bombshell. Mike Nunez at its sister site, Gizmodo, revealed that Facebook routinely suppressed conservative news from its trending news section, citing unnamed former Facebook employees, thus blemishing Facebook’s preferred guise... → Read More