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Jan 14, 2025 | 
cjr.org | Josh Hersh
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Natalia Antelava spent many years as a correspondent for the BBC, before starting her own media company, Coda Story, in 2016. She’s covered wars in the Middle East and the rise of authoritarianism across Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. For the past year, she was a Knight Fellow at Stanford, where she examined how journalism might survive in an era of AI and tech supremacy.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Josh Hersh
Sign up for The Media Today, CJRâs daily newsletter. The case against Carlos Watson, a cofounder of the digital media company Ozy, was largely built on the testimony of his key lieutenants, including his young cofounder, Samir Rao. But prosecutors also presented several other pieces of hard evidence over the course of the trial, much of it discussed in CJRâs podcast series âThe Unraveling of Ozy Media,â a special production of The Kicker.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Josh Hersh
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Donald Trump surprised a lot of people when he appeared on a number of nonpolitical podcasts this summer, spending valuable campaign time with unconventional figures, from the comedian Andrew Schultz and the former wrestler known as The Undertaker to the podcast king, Joe Rogan.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Josh Hersh
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Pete Hegseth has spent the past several years on daytime television, hawking grenade-shape soaps, hurling axes, and boasting about never washing his hands. Now he’s preparing for confirmation hearings as Donald Trump’s next secretary of defense.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Josh Hersh
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Nearly half of all Latino voters put their support behind former president Donald Trump this week, according to exit polls—a 14 percent increase from 2020. Those results surprised many, but not Jack Herrera, who has been reporting on the shifting voting habits of Latino communities across the country for years. Herrera joins The Kicker to talk about what he’s learned from his journalism in Pennsylvania, Iowa, and the border counties of Texas.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Josh Hersh
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Five months ago—when I stood outside a courthouse in Lower Manhattan with a couple dozen stragglers, half-heartedly hoping to get into the first (and so far only) criminal trial of Donald Trump—the presidential campaign felt moribund, and so did the news surrounding it. Hardly anyone was tuning in to coverage of politics, and the months ahead seemed poised to be a long, tedious slog.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Josh Hersh
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Martin Baron was the executive editor of the Washington Post from 2013 until his retirement, in 2021—which meant he was there for the arrival of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as owner and publisher of the paper. He’s long praised Bezos for taking a firm line against any interference with the paper’s journalism, but Bezos’s sudden decision, announced last week, to torpedo the paper’s planned endorsement of Kamala Harris was a bridge too far.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Josh Hersh
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. The so-called Big Lie—that the 2020 election was stolen out from under Donald Trump—was more than just a series of individual false facts and misleading videos. It was a narrative, carefully constructed by people affiliated with the Trump campaign, and disseminated through friendly news outlets and social media channels. Four years later, that story still convinces millions of Trump’s supporters.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Josh Hersh
Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. New York City is the media capital of the world, but the number of people and outlets covering the city locally has taken a hit recently. Over the past few years, the Wall Street Journal dropped its independent metro section, the New York Times announced it would stop endorsing local races, and the all-news radio station WCBS went off the air. But a number of scrappy upstarts have started filling the void.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
cjr.org | Josh Hersh
In March, the digital literary magazine Guernica published a personal essay by a British Israeli writer and translator, about her experiences in the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas terror attacks. It was raw and honest and painful to read. The writer, Joanna Chen, had spent years before the attacks and subsequent war on Gaza volunteering for an organization that transported Palestinian children into Israeli territory for medical care; after October 7, she found it hard to connect with the work.
