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Laura June is author of Now My Heart Is Full. “Parenting wasn’t considered literary fodder for a long time. I think women in particular are raised not to complain. Which is not what I was doing. If you have to boil it down, it’s base emotion. Then you’re

Alyssa Zeisler is R&D Chief and a Senior Product Manager at The Wall Street Journal, a combined role she undertook as the pandemic was hitting the world. In this new episode of our interview se…

Reuters today announced two new initiatives to increase newsroom diversity for emerging journalists and members of National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), through partnerships with Facebook and CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.

Note: An audio adaptation of this essay is featured as a segment in the pilot episode of Black Mountain Radio – an artist-driven and community-focused audio project from The Believer’s home, The Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute at UNLV. In the essay, adapted for audio by producer Claire Mullen, Paoletta explores the distinct literature of what […]

Investing in service journalism isn’t just about writing guides based on the day’s news, however. There are tools, strategy, and processes that newsrooms should adopt to do service journalism right.

The New York Times sued Time Magazine for trademark infringement Friday over the two publications’ similar names for live events.

As we all keep going and the pandemic drags on, there’s a temptation to just “hang in there” until normal comes back around. But as many people are realizing, normal isn’t …

“This is a work of criticism. If it were literary criticism, everyone would immediately understand the underlying purpose is positive. A critic of literature examines a work, analyzing its features, evaluating its qualities, seeking a deeper appreciation that might be useful to other readers of the same text. In a similar way, critics of music, […]

In spite of all!

Public notices in local newspapers have long helped hold government agencies accountable and news consumers make well-informed decisions. And they also used to be a reliable source of revenue for …

The future of remote learning with Sal Khan of Khan Academy.

What everyone gets wrong about Slack and why its future is mathematically bright

Did a newsletter company create a more equitable media system—or replicate the flaws of the old one?

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Conservative news thrives on Facebook because the incentives Facebook values align with those pioneered by conservative media.

A history of gender-bending performers in pop music – Lindsay Zoladz

The problem is I can’t make up my mind about confession.

Social media popularity is no replacement for paying your dues.

This week is all about spelling. Some attempts to reform it have succeeded. (You've probably noticed that words are spelled differently in the US than in British English.) Others have failed hilariously. (You'll see.) But we're burying the lede; our first topic is that word itself: 'lede.' How did it find its current form? Then, we'll discuss the godfather of American English himself, Noah Webster. (Yes, that's where we got half our name.)

This week, Jason and Fitz write about two authors who shaped their ambitions (and perhaps their styles) as writers, David Foster Wallace and John Updike.

Or, how I'm abandoning the clamor of public opinion in favor of generous conversation

In Not Your Mother’s Morals: How the New Sincerity is Changing Pop Culture for the Better, Jonathan D. Fitzgerald argues that today’s popular music, movies, TV shows, and books are making the world a better place. For all the hand-wringing about the decline of morals and the cheapening of culture in our time, contemporary media brims with examples of fascinating and innovative art that promote positive and uplifting moral messages—without coming across as “preachy.”

A Future News special: How Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, BBC News, ABC News, CBS News, NPR, The New York Times and The Washington Post will cover the vote

Given The Intercept's vehement denials, readers are entitled to see for themselves what the truth is: transparency journalism with integrity requires.

Over the weekend, the Union Leader, a newspaper in Manchester, New Hampshire, endorsed Joe Biden for president. “We have found Mr. Biden to be a caring, compassionate and professional public servant,” an editorial in the paper read; President Trump, by contrast, “is not always 100 percent wrong, but he is 100 percent wrong for America.” […]

Some Senate Democrats are seeking to empower regulators to protect local news outlets, accusing tech giants such as Google and Facebook of “unfair business practices,” according to a new committee report.

Why the hottest literary trend of the last decade is so blindingly white