Alicia Shepard
USA TODAY
Washington, DC, United States
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We traveled across America on a coronavirus road trip. Here's how we stayed safe.
Visit far-off friends (from a distance). Enjoy fine cuisine (packed in your cooler). Relax in your hotel suite (that you cleaned yourself to be safe). → Read More
Patrick Shanahan deserved to lose the job he wanted, but his children deserved much better
The aspiring Defense secretary cost his children their privacy and forced them to relive their trauma. He chose his ambitions over protecting them. → Read More
Get angry when powerful men like Trump, Kavanaugh, Grassley and Hatch insult women
Powerful men insult and demean women and get away with it. Stop being so nice. Time to get angry instead of letting them backpedal and apologize. → Read More
Don't believe the denials. Here's why Donald Trump should fear Bob Woodward's 'Fear.'
Bob Woodward's drive for truth started at a young age and so did his respect for recordings as evidence. Forget the denials, he does not make stuff up. → Read More
Calling all billionaires interested in saving democracy. Please invest in newspapers.
New York Daily News carnage is the latest sign that democracy and the journalism that drives it are in trouble. Billionaires are best hope for a rescue. → Read More
Calling all billionaires interested in saving democracy. Please invest in newspapers.
New York Daily News carnage is the latest sign that democracy and the journalism that drives it are in trouble. Billionaires are best hope for a rescue. → Read More
For the press, Donald Trump is that annoying sibling who knows how to press our buttons
Trump is a master at taunting the media with nasty nicknames. And his baiting has prompted journalists to make one mistake after another. → Read More
Craigslist didn't destroy newspapers, it outsmarted them
Struggling newspapers should look in the mirror and not at Craigslist creator Craig Newmark. He didn't destroy journalism. Journalism did that to itself. → Read More
Craig Newmark and Craigslist didn't destroy newspapers, they outsmarted them
Struggling newspapers should look in the mirror and not at Craigslist creator Craig Newmark. He didn't destroy journalism. Journalism did that to itself. → Read More
News media fail: 'Roseanne' flap eclipses shocking study on Puerto Rico hurricane deaths
Cable news spent over 8.5 hours on Roseanne Barr's tweet. She shouldn't matter more than news that over 4,600 Puerto Ricans may have died in Hurricane Maria. → Read More
Donald Trump's Amazon-Washington Post-Jeff Bezos attacks are attacks on First Amendment
Donald Trump is trying to control Washington Post coverage of him by hurting owner Jeff Bezos's bottom line at Amazon. It's dangerous and un-American. → Read More
The real Sinclair danger isn't its Trumpian promo, it's how many TV stations it owns
It’s a waste of time to be up in arms over Sinclair's one-minute promo. The real concern should be that it owns so many local TV news stations. → Read More
You are not friends with Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. You are their product.
We conveniently forgot that we are the product Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are marketing. The Cambridge Analytica scandal is a wake-up call. → Read More
You are not friends with Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. You are their product.
We conveniently forgot that we are the product Facebook and CEO Mark Zuckerberg are marketing. The Cambridge Analytica scandal is a wake-up call. → Read More
OPINION: Golden Age? Internet has hardly been that
It’s too often used as a weapon, and that’s a failure we can’t just accept → Read More
Florida shooting survivors aren't 'crisis actors.' They're victims of Internet failure.
Minutes after the Parkland high school massacre, we turned on each other, grabbed our social media guns and firmly took sides. Some Golden Age. → Read More
Charlie Rose, sexual harassment and the female newsroom managers who looked away
Newsroom sex harassment and the women who looked away → Read More
Charlie Rose, sexual harassment and the female newsroom managers who looked away
We are angry at the men and women who accepted the unacceptable and let it happen. We can't undo the past, but we can make sure it doesn't happen again. → Read More
Hillary Clinton: I blew the 2016 election, but so did the news media
She's rightfully angry about press failures and says journalists won't accept their role in her defeat — but also ignores her own initial missteps. → Read More
Hillary Clinton: I blew the 2016 election, but so did the news media
She's rightfully angry about press failures and says journalists won't accept their role in her defeat — but also ignores her own initial missteps. → Read More