01 — The Columbia Journalism Review: A Day in the Life of News.

THERE COMES A POINT WHEN A JOURNALIST’S WORK IS DONE, AND NEWS ENTERS THE VIEW OF ITS AUDIENCE.

To clock the ways journalism informs us, I asked six Americans to log their news consumption over the course of a day and, in doing so, to probe their habits and perceptions.

02 — The Columbia Journalism Review: ‘Our fates are going to be the same.’

THEY WON THE ALASKA NEWSPAPER GIVEAWAY.

Then the pandemic arrived.

03 — The Delacorte Review: The Moral Complexity of Sioux County, Iowa

CONGRESSMAN STEVE KING’S QUIET HEARTLAND IS ALL-AMERICAN, you might say. And America is changing.

04 — The Columbia Journalism Review: The pandemic and the information network

IN A DIAGNOSTIC ANGIOGRAM, doctors inject dye into patients’ blood vessels in order to make the paths of their blood flow visible. A similar procedure can, metaphorically, be performed with the narrative of the coronavirus. Tracing its outlines reveals the inner workings of a complex information ecosystem.

05 — The Columbia Journalism Review:  Dr. Ashley James on “Off the Record” and the limits of documents

DOCUMENTS ARE THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF JOURNALISM. Dr. Ashley James, the curator of the Guggenheim’s “Off the Record” exhibit, spoke with CJR about art as media criticism, how media forms meaning, and the role of self-reflection in producing information.

06 — The Guardian:  The media missed the rise of Trump in 2016. Are they ready this time?

THIS TIME, THE PRESS HAS PLEDGED TO DO BETTER. The Guardian and the Columbia Journalism Review partnered to interview 30 top media figures and commentators, asking them about the media’s readiness to cover the 2020 presidential election.

07 —The Columbia Journalism Review: In Justin Amash, a litmus test for partisan media’s influence

AS LOCAL NEWS OUTLETS STRUGGLE, NATIONAL MEDIA FILLS THE VOID with a more two-dimensional narrative. Voting changes. Legislators change. But Justin Amash is taking a gamble by going off-script—the question is whether or not his constituents will follow.

08 — The Columbia Journalism Review: Correcting the Record

EVERY #METOO STORY CONTAINS TWO TRAUMAS: First, the event itself. Then, the story becoming public. 

09 — The Columbia Journalism Review: The New Yorker’s Adam Entous on reporting out Biden allegations

IN THE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP STOOD ACCUSED of pressuring the president of Ukraine to investigate allegations of wrongdoing by former vice president Joe Biden. Adam Entous, a reporter for the New Yorker, first tackled the allegation that Biden had pressured Ukraine to fire a prosecutor who was looking into an oil and gas company that employed Biden’s son Hunter as a board member—in a story published in July 2019.

In September of 2019, I asked Entous whether there was anything to the accusations, and how others might go about reporting out such a complicated and polarizing story.