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An intervention for political journalism
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Press Watch
An intervention for political journalism
  • About this site
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      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
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