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Category Archives: Journalism
Brian Stelter: The Reporter on the Reporters
Brian Stelter (b. 1985) reports on the American news business. He covers the institutions, people, technologies, and incentives that shape journalism, and over two decades he has become a chronicler of the news industry and a media figure in his … Continue reading
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Unspotted: Joseph Kahn’s Times Through Mary Douglas’s Purity and Danger
Mary Douglas (1921-2007) published Purity and Danger in 1966 and gave social science its most useful definition of dirt: matter out of place. Dirt is not a quality of things; it is a by-product of classification. Shoes are not dirty, … Continue reading
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The Columbia Journalism Review Anthropology
In his 2018 book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, John J. Mearsheimer wrote: My view is that we are profoundly social beings from the start to the finish of our lives and that individualism is of secondary … Continue reading
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Michelle Goldberg & the Believer Beat
Michelle Goldberg (b. 1975) is an American journalist, author, and political commentator whose work examines the intersection of religion, sex, ideology, and political power. Since 2017 she has written an opinion column for The New York Times, where she is … Continue reading
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The Paper Trail: David Zahniser and the Government of Los Angeles
David Zahniser (b. 1965) is an American journalist whose career has centered on the government of Los Angeles. As a City Hall correspondent for the Los Angeles Times since 2007, he has become an authority on municipal power in Southern … Continue reading
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The Gap Is the Story: James O’Keefe and the Invention of Activist Undercover Media
James O’Keefe (b. 1984) is an American undercover investigator, media entrepreneur, author, and political activist who turned hidden-camera operations into a durable institution of conservative media. Over two decades he built, lost, and rebuilt organizations devoted to a single proposition: … Continue reading
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People Leak To People Who Are Fun
The scholarly literature on leaking rests on a civic premise. The leaker, in this account, weighs the public interest against institutional loyalty and personal risk, and when conscience outweighs career, he goes to the press. The premise survives because it … Continue reading
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Paul Kelly and The End of Certainty
Paul John Kelly (b. 1947) is the dean of Australian political journalists. For more than five decades he has worked at the intersection of journalism, history, and public policy, and he has done something few reporters attempt. He has built … Continue reading
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Phillip Knightley: The Reporter Who Investigated Reporting
Phillip Knightley (1929-2016) occupies a singular position in the history of twentieth-century journalism. He won renown as an investigative reporter on the Sunday Times Insight team, but his lasting contribution lies elsewhere. He turned the tools of investigative reporting on … Continue reading
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Why Does Australia Produce So Many Great Journalists?
Australia holds about 27 million people, fewer than Texas, and yet its journalists keep turning up at the commanding heights of the English-speaking press. John Pilger (1939-2023) shaped documentary journalism for half a century. Phillip Knightley (1929-2016) wrote The First … Continue reading
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