James Warren
Vanity Fair
Chicago, IL, United States
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On Tragedy TV, a Cycle of Mass Shootings Without End
As the media tramples Parkland, it’s impossible not to notice we’ve been here before. → Read More
As our media writer signs off, he provides us with some hopeful thoughts about journalism
Business models imploding, newsrooms gutted, content outsourced, Donald Trump, "fake news," sex harassment, bankruptcies, ethics t → Read More
Amid Trump’s Assaults on the Press, a Golden Age for Journalism
As he prepares to sign off, media writer James Warren shares 18 reasons why an embattled industry is stronger than ever. → Read More
How an Amtrak crash revealed the continuing ills of Facebook's algorithms
Conspiracy theories run amok after fatal Virginia accident → Read More
What the Virginia Train Crash Exposed About Silicon Valley
.“Very often at the intersection of technology and media, fixing one problem merely gives rise to a new problem,” says one expert. “Facebook may have layered so many solutions on top of one another that we can’t dig our way back to the underlying truth!” → Read More
Update: Editor claims he was fired for advancing equal pay but publisher, former colleagues push back
Editor's note: This story has been updated to include comments from the publisher, the three journalists mentioned in the original story an → Read More
Pulitzer-winning New England editor fired over stance for equal pay
Jeffrey Good, executive editor of Newspapers of New England's Pioneer Valley Newspaper group, said he's been fired for advocating equal pay for wom → Read More
A fact-checking army (and app) had rapid-fire responses for Trump's State of the Union speech
Armies of fact-checkers massed around the State of the Union Address, seeking to evacuate truth from the encroaching rhetorical perils of D → Read More
The Limitations of Fact-Checking in the Age of Trump
An army of experts can only do so much to shed light on a post-factual president. → Read More
How a bulldog TV host turned lapdog in Trump interview
Remember Piers Morgan? Well, he too was in Davos Veni, vidi, vici ("I came, I saw, I conquered"), Julius Caesar wrote the Roman Senate in 47 BC after a military victory. For British talk host Piers Morgan it was more like "I came, I saw, I sucked up" in 2018 as he interviewed President Donald Trump. Stephen Colbert had his opening Monday monologue essentially written for him as a result of an… → Read More
Piers Morgan, “Mr. Nasty,” Goes Soft on Donald Trump
The British pit bull turns lapdog in Davos, revealing more about himself than Trump in the process. → Read More
ESPN prevails as Michigan State's delaying tactics on sexual assault records failed
After what she's endured with Michigan State University, ESPN investigative reporter Paula Lavigne actually can wax nostalgic abou → Read More
Can Facebook Solve Its Fake News Problem?
Academics believe the epidemic is curable—if we start asking different questions. → Read More
Media, take solace: Survey shows Trump Hotels even more hated
There is finally some good news for the media amid cascades of repetitive, even now monotonous studies on declining respect and the rise of fake ne → Read More
Trump’s Hotels Are Even More Unpopular than the Media
Imagine that. → Read More
Lawrence O'Donnell's surprise answer to whether the press covers politics better than 1968
More quantity, less understanding? → Read More
The Dangerous Media Paradox of the Digital Age
In an era of abundance, media consumers know more and understand less. → Read More
A great newspaper war results in more Times, Post dueling exclusives
It happened again Tuesday evening as it does most nights for David Cohen, former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agenc → Read More
Will the Times-Post Rivalry Be Donald Trump’s Doom?
The great newspaper war takes another bite out of Trump’s White House. → Read More
Megyn Kelly vs. Jane Fonda: a ratings winner drenched in irony
Kelly reprises the 'Hanoi Jane' nickname Megyn Kelly has vaulted us into a Post-Irony Age. At minimum, she and her employer are offering us a case study in a state of affairs deliberately contrary to our normal expectations. So Kelly and Jane Fonda have been dueling since September's first week of "Megyn Kelly Today," the morning vehicle for NBC's expensive hire from The Land of Ailes, where she… → Read More