The 2016 presidential election was a depressing experience for Laura Carpenter, an engineer and student at Harvard Business School. “I was frustrated by the toxic nature of our political discourse,” she says. “I’m from the South. Read more
Primary season is in full swing across America. Every election year, news organizations face the big challenge of how to engage readers, viewers and listeners in what many citizens consider boring, even irrelevant to their daily lives: midterm elections. Traditional … Read more
Except for my Nieman year, I had been staring down deadlines every work day since age 22. So after four decades of newsroom stresses, I moved back to Atlanta, where I had worked for many years for … Read more
We helped change the course of history. We likely made the difference in a close presidential election. We helped Russia undermine our democracy. We compounded the self-righteous mistakes by the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. We helped make … Read more
My plane landed late at night in New Delhi on my first visit to India, so I was still groggy at 6 a.m. when the sound of shouting right outside my window jolted me awake. Worried that something was amiss, … Read more
While covering the media business for The New Yorker for more than 25 years, Ken Auletta has profiled many of the most important leaders of the Information Age and reported on the disruption roiling the industry. Read more
