The Media, Disability, and Me The Media, Disability, and Me
Working in media has always been an uphill battle for disabled writers, but an ever-shrinking industry gives “hard” a whole new meaning.
Dec 14, 2023 / Feature / Vilissa Thompson
How 2 Companies Came to Dominate the Media Business How 2 Companies Came to Dominate the Media Business
Once upon a time, six companies controlled the media in this country. That, it turns out, was the good old days…
Dec 13, 2023 / Feature / Thomas Schatz
The Definitive Guide to Starting Your Own Media Company The Definitive Guide to Starting Your Own Media Company
How to throw off the corporate shackles and launch an independent news outlet.
Dec 13, 2023 / Feature / Kelsey McKinney and Aleksander Chan
One Big Cookout: From the “Negro Press” to Black Twitter One Big Cookout: From the “Negro Press” to Black Twitter
We always suspected that whatever magazines and newspapers for white folks weren’t telling us, Black newspapers and magazines would.
Dec 12, 2023 / Feature / Gene Seymour
Local News Has Been Destroyed. Here’s How We Can Revive It. Local News Has Been Destroyed. Here’s How We Can Revive It.
A plan to build back better.
Dec 12, 2023 / Feature / John Nichols
The Algorithm Oligarchy The Algorithm Oligarchy
How the Internet produced the age of monopoly platforms.
Dec 11, 2023 / Feature / Colleen Tighe
The Big Unfriendly Tech Giants The Big Unfriendly Tech Giants
We must ensure that corporations aren’t able to pick and choose winners and losers in journalism.
Dec 11, 2023 / Feature / Zephyr Teachout
Elon Musk’s Real Threat to Democracy Isn’t What You Think Elon Musk’s Real Threat to Democracy Isn’t What You Think
How the attention-starved CEO took over our communications infrastructure.
Dec 11, 2023 / Feature / Siva Vaidhyanathan
Lina Khan’s Anti-Monopoly Power Lina Khan’s Anti-Monopoly Power
Beginning in the 1970s, the Federal Trade Commission gave up on its mission to protect consumers and competition. Then Khan took charge of the agency, and turned it on its head.
Dec 9, 2023 / Feature / Bryce Covert
An Urgent Witness, Not a Passive Bystander, to Climate Catastrophe An Urgent Witness, Not a Passive Bystander, to Climate Catastrophe
Conversations with Jane Hirshfield, poet of the present moment.
Dec 4, 2023 / Feature / Wen Stephenson