Read in English. Más de un periodista en México se quedó perplejo. Después de que autoridades informaron las medidas para evitar contagios del Covid-19, como guardar distancia física con otras personas, el presidente Andrés Manuel López … Read more
Translated by John Gibler. Leer en español. More than one Mexican journalist found themselves perplexed. After federal authorities laid out the measures to avoid Covid-19 transmissions, such as keeping physical distance between people, President … Read more
Robert Giles, former curator of the Nieman Foundation, was managing editor of the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal on May 4, 1970 when four students were killed at Kent State University during an anti-war protest. National Guard soldiers also wounded nine … Read more
I live in Madrid, the center of the coronavirus epidemic in Spain. Since March 10, I have spent most of my day answering readers’ questions and writing a daily newsletter on the outbreak for my newspaper, eldiario.es. Read more
These days, if it’s 4:59 in Kentucky, people across the state are racing to tune in. No matter the local news carrier — from Pikeville in the east to Paducah in the west—it’s pretty much a given that your television, … Read more
Consider this thought experiment: The problem of _____ [insert problem] will cause major upheavals in life as we know it and possibly extensive deaths in _____ [insert amount of time]. What is the difference between filling in the blanks with … Read more
It’s weird how my Twitter feed these days looks exactly like my Twitter feed from 12 days ago. Homeschooling tips. People doing things on balconies. Animals roaming in emptied cities. War metaphors. Zoom. Camus. I’ve seen all this before. Only … Read more
Among the jarring statistics related to the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 250,000 confirmed cases and more than 10,000 deaths as of Friday, is this: Only 50 percent of Americans trust the information they hear about coronavirus from news media, … Read more
The facts of Maria Ressa’s career are impressive enough: Princeton cum laude, Fulbright Fellow, CNN bureau chief in Manila and Jakarta, CNN’s chief investigative reporter in Asia, author of two books on terrorism, news division head at ABS-CBN, the Philippines’ … Read more
On Tuesday, China announced it would rescind reporting credentials for more than a dozen American journalists. The news felt like a punch in the gut. As many as 13 journalists from The New York Times, The … Read more
