Media
Meet the Guy Who Went Viral for Explaining How NFTs Are a ‘Poverty Trap’
Dan Olson’s YouTube documentary “Line Goes Up” is like “The Big Short,” except crypto is the housing crisis.
BBC Says It Would Interview Flat-Earthers to Be Impartial
The BBC's standards chief said "both sides" should be given airtime because the BBC strives for "impartiality" and "does not subscribe to cancel culture."
Almost Half the World’s Imprisoned Journalists Are in These 3 Countries
In an inglorious list of dictatorships and authoritarian regimes, three Asian countries lead the way for the number of journalists languishing in prison.
Auschwitz Memorial Condemns Fox Host for Comparing Fauci to Josef Mengele
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial called Lara Logan's comments "shameful" and a "sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline."
At the Times, Star Columnist Covers Union Without Mentioning He Worked Against It
Ben Smith covers the NewsGuild a lot without mentioning his past with it or his financial interest in BuzzFeed, whose workers it represents.
Tucker Carlson Pumped Full of Fentanyl, Emerges With New Understanding of the Opioid Crisis
“I just thought that was the most interesting fucking thing that had ever happened to me,” he said after emergency back surgery.
Surprise! The Future of Media Involves a Crypto-Based Popularity Contest
Could Mirror, a new independent publishing platform, offer an escape from the exhaustion of the creator economy?
Facebook Says Extremely Common Thing It Does Is Bad When Reporters Do It
The company decried the use of embargoes to coordinate a coming series of reporting on thousands of pages of leaks, despite regularly using embargoes itself.
We Spoke to Journalist Maria Ressa After Her Nobel Peace Prize Win
"Being fearless doesn’t mean you don’t feel afraid. It just means you know how to handle your fear."
Trump’s Pick to Run Arizona Wants to ‘Sledgehammer’ the ‘Communist’ Media
“I’m ready to take a sledgehammer to the corrupt media,” former local news reporter Kari Lake pledged in her first campaign ad for governor.
Sexual Assault Survivors in Journalism Are Waiting for Their Reckoning
After Felicia Sonmez’s lawsuit against the Washington Post, reporters who’ve survived sexual assault are confronting their trauma and what the lawsuit means for media's future.
Rupert Murdoch Has Known We’ve Been in a Climate Emergency Since 2006, Documents Show
Murdoch’s News Corp has spent the past 15 years mitigating its own climate risk while giving media outlets like Fox News carte blanche to deny climate change altogether.