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- The Institutionalist: Dean Baquet and the Remaking of American Journalism
- The Publisher Always Wins – A Jill Abramson Biography
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- WEHT to Investigative Journalism?
- The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers
- When Radio Hosts Transition To Podcasts
- The Jeremy Paxman Voice
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Author Archives: Luke Ford
Alliance Theory and the Iran War
Whenever I hear professional commentators opine on the Iran War, I only recall them saying what their alliance position predisposes them to say. I can’t think of any exceptions. Opinions on the war largely track opinions on Trump. What the … Continue reading
The Amnon Yitzhak Voice
Amnon Yitzhak (b. 1953) builds a voice out of the Yemenite street and the yeshiva study hall. He keeps the guttural ayin and het of Yemenite Hebrew, the pronunciation his Ashkenazi Haredi peers smooth away. That sound marks him. To … Continue reading
Will Wilkinson: From Libertarian to Liberal
Will Wilkinson (b. 1973) is an American political writer, policy analyst, and journalist whose career traces a significant ideological migration. He came out of the libertarian movement of the late twentieth century, then built a distinctive liberalism that joins market … Continue reading
The Eliezer Shlomo Shick Voice
Rabbi Eliezer Shlomo Shick (1940-2015), known to his followers as Mohorosh, built a voice around one idea said ten thousand times. Do not despair. Start again today. Talk to God in your own words. His whole package serves that message, … Continue reading
Kerry Howley
My 2008 Kerry Howley interview. Kerry Howley (b. 1981) is an American journalist, essayist, and screenwriter. She writes literary nonfiction that joins immersive reporting to philosophical questions about consciousness, institutional power, surveillance, and the construction of narrative. Her work sits … Continue reading
The Zamir Cohen Voice
Rabbi Zamir Cohen founded Hidabroot, the Israeli outreach television channel and media network, and he serves as its public face. His whole manner follows from that role. He talks to the unconvinced. His audience is the secular or lapsed Israeli … Continue reading
The Rav Shach Show
Shach (1899-2001) speaks in declaratives. He states. He does not qualify, does not hedge, does not leave a sentence open at the end for the other man to walk through. A vote not cast for the right party counts as … Continue reading
The Pini Dunner Voice
Pini Dunner (b. 1970) writes the way a confident radio host talks. He spent the late 1990s doing a daily two-hour live show on London’s Spectrum Radio, and you can hear that training in everything he writes. The prose moves … Continue reading
The Shalom Rosner Voice
Rabbi Shalom Rosner teaches like a man who has decided that clarity is the whole job. He runs one of the most followed English-language Daf Yomi shiurim in the world, and the reason is not charisma in the showy sense. … Continue reading
Dan Turrentine: Fundraiser, Operative, Commentator
Dan Turrentine (b. 1977) is an American Democratic political strategist, fundraiser, corporate government-relations executive, and media commentator. His career runs across campaign finance, technology lobbying, congressional politics, corporate advocacy, and digital political journalism. He came up through fundraising and operations … Continue reading