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Category Archives: Journalism
Steve Lopez: The Last City Columnist
Around noon on a drizzly late-winter day in 2005, a newspaper columnist walking through Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles heard music. He followed the sound past the office workers with their lunch bags and found a man standing beside … Continue reading
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Anthony Lane: A Life
On the morning of January 30, 2024, a memo went out to the staff of The New Yorker. David Remnick (b. 1958), the editor, announced that Justin Chang, the film critic of the Los Angeles Times, would join the magazine … Continue reading
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Author Philip Gourevitch
In May 1995 a thirty-three-year-old American freelancer steps through a massacre site in Rwanda and his foot comes down on a skull. The dead lie so thick on the ground that he cannot avoid them. The killing ended almost a … Continue reading
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Larissa MacFarquhar: The Woman Who Slows Judgment Down
A philosophy professor stands before a class and poses a problem. Two people are drowning. One is your mother. The other two are strangers. You can save your mother or you can save the two strangers. Which do you choose? … Continue reading
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Brandy Zadrozny: The Librarian Who Went to War
On the morning of December 17, 2020, a nurse named Tiffany Dover stands at a podium in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She manages the COVID unit at CHI Memorial Hospital and she has just received one of the first vaccine doses in … Continue reading
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Tamar Fox
One Friday night in early August, Tamar Fox stands at her stove in Philadelphia cooking Shabbat dinner when her cell phone rings. The voice on the other end asks whether she would like a one-month-old baby girl. She says yes. … Continue reading
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World-Class Haters: Terry Moran and the End of the Neutral Correspondent
Terry Moran (b. 1959) built a career that tracks the arc of American television journalism across a single generation, moving from legal reporting to network political coverage, foreign correspondence, presidential interviewing, and finally independent digital media. Born Terence Patrick Moran … Continue reading
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Karl Stefanovic aka Joe Bogan
Karl Stefanovic (born August 12, 1974) stands among the defining figures of Australian broadcast journalism in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. For most of two decades he anchored the Nine Network’s breakfast program Today, and across that span … Continue reading
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Scott Kraft: Foreign Correspondent and Newsroom Editor
Scott Kraft belongs to a narrow class of American journalists who reached the front rank twice over, first as a foreign correspondent and then as a newsroom executive. His career at the Los Angeles Times spans more than four decades … Continue reading
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Terry Tang and the Custody of the Los Angeles Times
Terry Tang (b. circa 1959) is an American journalist, editor, and former lawyer who has served as executive editor of the Los Angeles Times since April 2024. She is the first woman to lead the newspaper’s newsroom in its history, … Continue reading
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