TyLisa Johnson

Nov 5, 2024 | poynter.org | Amaris Castillo |Angela Fu |Kristen Hare |TyLisa Johnson

A few decades ago, your options for election coverage could be counted on one hand. Today, the news landscape is overflowing with choices. There’s TV, of course, with local and national options. Print is hanging on in some areas, though results might miss the deadline. Online news sites of all levels of repute are available. And, speaking of ill repute, you could turn to social media, where users often offer more spin than substance.

Nov 5, 2024 | poynter.org | TyLisa Johnson

Eugene Daniels moves through the world with his mother’s voice echoing in his mind. You belong in every single room you find yourself in, she would tell him. Politico’s White House correspondent has carried her voice with him through the walls of the White House, on Air Force One, and on the campaign trail with Vice President Kamala Harris. Since Daniels began writing about her, starting when she won her Senate race in 2016, he’s become one of the consistent expert voices on Harris.

Sep 17, 2024 | poynter.org | TyLisa Johnson

Even when the award-winning “1619 Project” was just the seed of an idea, Nikole Hannah-Jones knew the immensity of her endeavor. The ambitious set of essays first published by The New York Times in August 2019 centered the enslavement of Africans in the founding of America and aimed to unsettle long-held narratives that downplay the role of slavery in the development of the nation.

Aug 6, 2024 | poynter.org | Kristen Hare |TyLisa Johnson |Josie Hollingsworth |Angela Fu

The big news last week: After 16 months of imprisonment in Russia under false charges, Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was free. The Journal was not the newsroom to break that story, however. Bloomberg News was. And it wasn’t a scoop to celebrate, since it came thanks to what looks like a broken embargo and before Gershkovich and other prisoners were safely back in the United States. In the days since, the story of how that happened has itself become the news.

Feb 28, 2024 | carnegiemuseums.org | TyLisa Johnson

At 13, Sasha Igwe and her family packed up and moved from Ypsilanti, Michigan, to Monroeville, Pennsylvania. Her old neighborhood about an hour outside of Detroit was demographically diverse, with racial minorities accounting for more than a third of the population, according to Census figures. It was a startling contrast to her comparatively white and homogeneous new home.