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1 month ago | 
cjr.org | Sewell Chan |Betsy Morais
Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. Wesley J. Lowery, a Pulitzer-winning investigative reporter and one of the most influential journalists of his generation, has left his positions as the executive editor of the Investigative Reporting Workshop and as an associate professor of journalism at American University in Washington, DC, after less than two years there.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
cjr.org | Betsy Morais
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Jul 10, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Betsy Morais
âThe press seems relentlessly focused on the status of the elderly,â Lucy Schiller wrote for CJR last year. She was referring to Joe Biden, the oldest president the United States has ever had; Donald Trump, his predecessor and rival; and the record-breaking age of the Senate.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Betsy Morais
In our new election-focused issue, Josh Hersh contends with the problem of news avoidance.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Josh Hersh |Betsy Morais |Susie Banikarim |Maddy Crowell
It’s another election season, and we’re in reruns. Donald Trump, the first convicted-felon former president, is carrying on at rallies as ever, repeating the word “rigged.” Joe Biden, America’s oldest president, is mostly staying home, also as before. The world rages with war; stateside, democracy feels imperiled. “We’re just kind of over it,” Noemi Peña, a twenty-year-old from Tucson, told the Wall Street Journal in March.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Betsy Morais
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: In April, the Donald Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee announced the “most extensive and monumental election integrity program in the nation’s history.” The plan involved more than a hundred thousand attorneys and volunteers posted in competitive states, plus an “Election Integrity Hotline” ready to take your call.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
editorandpublisher.com | Betsy Morais
Posted Tuesday, April 30, 2024 9:44 am Last week, the congressional spotlight fell on Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, who followed the acts of Claudine Gay (formerly Harvard’s president) and Elizabeth Magill (formerly Penn’s).
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Betsy Morais
Last week, the congressional spotlight fell on Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, who followed the acts of Claudine Gay (formerly Harvard’s president) and Elizabeth Magill (formerly Penn’s). Gay and Magill were asked to speak in December to a House committee about their schools’ climates since October 7, when Hamas attacked Israel and Israel launched a siege on Gaza; both presidents’ tenures unraveled shortly after.
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Sep 28, 2023 | 
cjr.org | Betsy Morais
Back to fall, back to school, back to the office. From the New York Times to Hearst, media companies are summoning employees to appear in person; many executives’ acceptance of remote work, facilitated by the pandemic, has now, apparently, run out.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
cjr.org | Betsy Morais
An aide approached, close by his side. She placed a hand gently, firmly on his back. “Did you hear the question, senator?” (A quiet “Yeah.”) Her eyes darted down. “Okay,” she said. Her bottom lip curled under. “All right.” She turned to face the crowd. “I’m sorry, you all, we’re going to need a minute.” Mitch McConnell, Kentucky senator and eighty-one year old, “appeared to freeze,” as press reports put it—the second time he had done so in public view this summer.
