Betsy Morais

Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in the industry say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault.

Introducing our campaign to stop the spread of fake media.

A major network charts a digital course—and makes layoffs.

When Lucy Schiller examined the close relationship between the political press and the elderly.

In our new election-focused issue, Josh Hersh contends with the problem of news avoidance. Network ratings are below what executives would expect at this point in the campaign cycle; as the journalist Brian Stelter put it, “The overarching emotion among voters is apathy and even burnout.” That could be a matter of circumstance—“a uniquely disliked […]

The déjà vu and indifference of Election 2024.

Last week, the congressional spotlight fell on Minouche Shafik, the president of Columbia University, who followed the acts of Claudine Gay (formerly Harvard’s president) and Elizabeth Magill (formerly Penn’s). Gay and Magill were asked to speak in December to a House committee about their schools’ climates since October 7, when Hamas attacked Israel and Israel […]

<p>Back to fall, back to school, back to the office. From the New York Times to Hearst, media companies are summoning employees to appear in person; many executives’ acceptance of remote work, facilitated by the pandemic, has now, apparently, run out. But as Susan DeCarava, the president of the NewsGuild of New York, told Digiday, […]</p>

<p>An aide approached, close by his side. She placed a hand gently, firmly on his back. “Did you hear the question, senator?” (A quiet “Yeah.”) Her eyes darted down. “Okay,” she said. Her bottom lip curled under. “All right.” She turned to face the crowd. “I’m sorry, you all, we’re going to need a minute.” […]</p>

<p>In 2018, the US Supreme Court struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act and lifted the gate to sports gambling across the country. Betting is now legal in thirty-four states, plus Washington, DC; in the past five years, according to the Washington Post, Americans have wagered more than two hundred billion dollars on […]</p>

<p>Last summer, in a piece for CJR, Karen Maniraho spoke with writers who cover the internet and its subcultures. “The best of these journalists are immersed in the internet but do not obsess over viral moments, which fly by too fast and seem, in isolation, to be trivial,” she observed. “By focusing on creators, communities, […]</p>

<p>On March 3, 1873, Congress passed what later became known as the Comstock Act, which made it illegal to send material by mail that was “obscene, lewd, or lascivious,” “indecent or immoral.” The wording was vague, and used to target anyone interested in exploring their sexuality, particularly women and queer people. Distributing information about birth […]</p>

<p>When the news broke, it wasn’t exactly news. For one thing, there had already been a leak—a month earlier, Politico reported, based on a draft opinion, that the Supreme Court had voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. For another, America’s abortion-rights activists, who had been painfully aware of the limits to access for years, had […]</p>

<p>This spring, Digiday reported that “media companies are still mostly hiring white people.” The news was damning not only because of the facts of the matter, but also the context: just a couple of years ago, the journalism industry was said to be undergoing a “reckoning” over racism. High-ranking white people resigned or were dismissed; […]</p>

<p>For decades, Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty have broadcast into countries all over the world, in dozens of languages, on a mission “not just to report the truth,” as Emily Russell observes for the latest issue of CJR, “but to spread American values.” In an audio feature, Russell looks at how that’s […]</p>

<p>When Benjamin Netanyahu returned to office at the end of last year, he entered his sixth term as prime minister of Israel, leading the most far-right coalition in the history of the country. Within days, his government announced a plan to overhaul the judiciary, one that would dramatically diminish Israel’s separation of powers and hand […]</p>

How John Bennet went from East Texas kid to New Yorker editor

<p>How John Bennet went from East Texas kid to <i>New Yorker</i> editor</p>

<p>In the spring of 1960, Dwight D. Eisenhower told an elaborate lie. An American U-2 plane, part of a CIA mission to spy on the Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile program, was detected by Russian officers and brought down near the town of Sverdlovsk (known today as Yekaterinburg). The fate of the pilot, Francis Gary Powers, […]</p>

<p>Tomorrow is Roger Angell’s hundredth birthday. I met Roger at The New Yorker, where he has contributed since 1944. I was assigned to be his assistant; we’ve since become dear friends. Reading his pieces, many of them about baseball, a few things are obvious: Roger is a terrific noticer. He has an extraordinary talent for […]</p>