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January 2025

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes wants your attention, please
The newscaster’s new book, 'The Sirens’ Call,' grapples with how distracted technology has made us all. Put your phone down and read it.
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Mark Yarm
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"Everything is a big secret." A fact checker's quest to ensure remarkable reporting stands on solid ground
Amid a feature about Haiti's resilience and ruin, Jameson Francisque's resolve to verify key details shows why fact checking is vital in journalism.
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2000, zero-zero, party over: Colette Shade looks back to the turn of the millennium
The author of the essay collection "Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything" discusses the not-so-distant past and the disappointing present.
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Mark Yarm
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Story matchmaker: Inside Story Bureau with David Wolman
A veteran journalist builds a new model for connecting great reporting with publishers and audiences.
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Parker Molloy
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December 2024

“What can be built from the rubble?” Virginia Heffernan launches a forward-thinking podcast for the Trump 2.0 era
The veteran journalist co-hosts What Rough Beast, a show that posits the American experiment has failed and wonders what comes next.
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Mark Yarm
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“No denial, minimizing, or gaslighting.” How The Sick Times is covering the Long Covid crisis
One year in, the publication’s founders share what they’ve learned — and what they anticipate might change under Trump 2.0.
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Mark Yarm
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Human stories from Ukraine: Inside The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak
As major outlets shutter foreign bureaus, one journalist builds a new model for international reporting.
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Parker Molloy
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“I have a duty to share what I saw.” Jacob Soboroff on his role in Trump immigration documentary 'Separated'
The NBC News correspondent calls the film about the Trump administration’s child-separation policy “more relevant than I ever could have possibly…
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Mark Yarm
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November 2024

Writing through the apocalypse with The Handbasket’s Marisa Kabas
As independent journalism faces mounting threats, one writer builds a platform for uncompromising reporting.
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Parker Molloy
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Night falls, stars shine: Jeff Sharlet on Trump, extremism, and journalism’s future
The author of The Undertow and The Family strikes a bleak tone, but predicts “some brilliant, heroic reporting.”
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Mark Yarm
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Truth telling in trans coverage: Inside Assigned Media with Evan Urquhart
As misinformation about transgender people proliferates, one journalist is building a fact-based alternative to mainstream narratives.
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Parker Molloy
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