Feven Merid

1 week ago | cjr.org | Feven Merid

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Kismet has had a journey in finding a name. After all, what do you call a literary magazine tasked with exploring “spirituality, religion, and mysticism for seekers and skeptics alike”? “Heathen” was one early option. Editor in chief Samuel Rutter liked its playfulness––it was a term his grandmother often used growing up. Ultimately, the word’s history proved to be too contentious. “Schism” was another.

1 month ago | cjr.org | Feven Merid

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Two of the past three issues of a new fashion publication, Boy Brother Friend, have opened on the subject of war. There is, according to Kk Obi, the founder, and Matthew Benson, the editorial director, no way around this tension when the magazine’s subject is the African continent and its diaspora.

2 months ago | cjr.org | Feven Merid

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Since Donald Trump’s reelection, Wikipedia has been catching right-wing bullets. There have been taunts from Elon Musk, prompted by a page that described his Nazi-style salute during the inauguration. “Defund Wikipedia,” he posted on X—which, under his ownership, has positioned itself as a competing source of “authoritative” information.

2 months ago | cjr.org | Feven Merid

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Among the billionaires in attendance at Donald Trump’s inauguration were Elon Musk, the owner of X; Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta; and Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, which also owns YouTube. Their presence starkly illustrated a concern that many social media critics have echoed for some time: these companies, as key as they are to our social infrastructure, are also at the whims of their leaders.

2 months ago | publici.ucimc.org | Feven Merid

0 Flares 0 Flares × This article was originally published in Columbia Journalism Review on November 22, 2024. It has been shortened to fit and lightly edited for style. At the end of November, 1999, when the World Trade Organization met at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, so many thousands of protesters arrived on the scene that they effectively ended the conference; what ensued became known as the Battle of Seattle.