Explainers - Press Watch

Fact-checking needs to make way for reality-testing and gaslighting-fighting

October 28, 2019 9:54 am EDT

Horse race

Focus on tactics over substance takes all the meaning out of politics

October 25, 2019 8:18 am EDT

A chart from the Shorenstein Center report "In the Shadow of Kerner: Fifty Years Later, Newsroom Diversity and Equity Stall".

Newsrooms are struggling to cover race

October 24, 2019 4:00 pm EDT

Too many political journalists are too damned timid

October 23, 2019 5:00 pm EDT

That thing that just happened didn’t just happen in a vacuum

October 22, 2019 11:31 am EDT

The old labels don’t properly capture today’s political divisions

October 21, 2019 11:23 am EDT

Anonymity for sources shouldn’t come cheap

October 20, 2019 2:47 pm EDT

Political journalists are doing voter interviews all wrong

October 19, 2019 1:36 pm EDT

False equivalence fuels political journalism’s race to the bottom

October 18, 2019 2:24 pm EDT