
Jon Allsop
Journalist at Freelance
Writer at Columbia Journalism Review
Author: What is Journalism For? Newsletters @CJR. Other (recent) words @NYBooks, @NewYorker, @VanityFair, @TheAtlantic, @Guardian. @ArgyleLife1886 for fun.
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1 week ago |
cjr.org | Jon Allsop
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2 weeks ago |
newyorker.com | Jon Allsop
Alex Thompson, a journalist at Axios, received an award at last month’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a fancy bash where members of the press rub shoulders with the people they cover, traditionally including the President. Donald Trump skipped the event, and the persistent threats that he’s made against the media hung over it.
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2 weeks ago |
cjr.org | Jon Allsop
Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. Two weeks ago, I wrote in this newsletter about a horse called Journalism, which was the favorite going into the Kentucky Derby, ultimately losing out to a rival named Sovereigntyâa result that was inevitably cheered, in a metaphorical sense, by Trump administration officials and right-wing populists and taken as an ominous sign by many journalists.
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2 weeks ago |
cjr.org | Jon Allsop
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3 weeks ago |
businessandamerica.com | Jon Allsop
Serwer’s essay came out in 2018, and made the case that President Trump and his supporters had found community in celebrating harshness toward people they hate, including migrants. Since Trump has returned to office, on an even more racist platform, cruelty—and the performance thereof—have, again, often seemed to be the point.
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RT @mediagazer: Q&A with RFE/RL reporter Andrei Kuznechyk, whose release from a Belarus jail in February was brokered by the US, on the imp…

Delighted to say I’m gonna be doing a bit more writing for The New Yorker over the summer. Here’s my first piece of that, on the apparent contradiction of Trump both shrinking and growing government, and why it isn’t really a contradiction:

Donald Trump’s expansion of executive power is frequently at odds with an instinct to cut costs and pare back the federal government—reflecting “the chaos of his approach to governance,” @Jon_Allsop writes. https://t.co/DR7ywqI60A

RT @PFC_NPC: REMINDER: Today at 3PM EST, the Press Freedom Center will chat with @Jon_Allsop about his new book, What is Journalism For. R…