Bill Grueskin

2 weeks ago | cjr.org | Bill Grueskin

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. As soon as I saw that Garrett Graff had written an oral history of the Bear Stearns collapse, I bookmarked the Washington Post page, figuring it’d be a great thing to read when I got some time. Then I forgot about it for a few days—until the markets imploded earlier this week. Graff has a way of eliciting you-are-there quotes, even about events that happened seventeen years ago.

3 weeks ago | cjr.org | Bill Grueskin

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Garrett Shanley is due to graduate from the University of Florida next month, and if your news org is looking for a dynamite reporter, you’d better reach out ASAP. You might remember Shanley’s blockbuster last August about Ben Sasse, the former senator who served as university president for just seventeen months, and left because he needed to take care of his ailing wife.

4 weeks ago | cjr.org | Bill Grueskin

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. There are stories that make a splash, and then there are stories that leave a mile-deep crater. This week’s piece by The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, detailing how he was inadvertently added to a Trump administration group chat detailing war plans against the Houthis, falls smack into the second category.

1 month ago | cjr.org | Bill Grueskin

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. The phrase “money is the mother’s milk of politics,” coined in the 1960s by legendary California politician Jesse Unruh, referred, at that more innocent time, to wealthy people funding campaigns. Nowadays it comes with an additional meaning, as some of our leaders deploy their political power to enrich themselves and their families. The Trumps are especially adept at this.

1 month ago | cjr.org | Bill Grueskin

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Brendan Carr, the newly appointed chair of the FCC, has made no secret of his antipathy for mainstream press—including NPR, which he recently alleged may be violating the law by broadcasting commercial messages. It’s an unusually timed claim, but as Carr made clear in a conversation with Semafor’s Ben Smith last week, he’s out for vengeance after four years of a Democratic administration in Washington.