Paul Farhi

4 days ago | poynter.org | Paul Farhi

This article was originally published by Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative and is republished here with permission. As Hurricane Helene ravaged the mountain communities of western North Carolina last fall, Blue Ridge Public Radio remained a beacon in the storm. With power knocked out throughout the region, the organization turned to portable generators to keep its two stations on the air.

5 days ago | localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu | Paul Farhi |Mark Caro |Hannah Carroll |Autumn Brewington

As Hurricane Helene ravaged the mountain communities of western North Carolina last fall, Blue Ridge Public Radio remained a beacon in the storm. With power knocked out throughout the region, the organization turned to portable generators to keep its two stations on the air. For days during and after the deluge, BPR was the only source of lifesaving news: weather updates, road closures, potable water locations. BPR now confronts a different kind of calamity.

3 weeks ago | thedailybeast.com | Paul Farhi

Memory fades. It has, unfortunately, at The Washington Post, which now seems to hardly remember a columnist who was the victim of a dastardly act of state murder. In October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian journalist and dissident who contributed to The Post‘s opinion pages, went to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain documents for his forthcoming marriage to a Turkish woman. He was never seen again. Agents of the Saudi government assaulted and killed him inside the compound.

3 weeks ago | vanityfair.com | Paul Farhi

As Americans continue to cut the cord with their cable TV providers, one familiar name is being left behind. C-SPAN—one of basic cable’s OG channels—has disappeared from millions of households. Fifteen years ago or so, the public-affairs channels (there are three in all) were available via cable and satellite in nearly 100 million homes; today the number has dwindled to around 51 million. All those lost homes, in turn, have translated into a dangerous slide in revenue.

1 month ago | vanityfair.com | Paul Farhi

The first big scoop of the day—a Washington Post report about the improper sharing of White House data—had barely arrived on Sunday afternoon when an even bigger scoop landed. The New York Times reported that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had revealed sensitive military plans in a second group chat on Signal, this one including his wife, brother, and personal lawyer. As head-spinning as all the news was, there was one predictable thing about it: which outfits were reporting it.