“Every age gets the journalism it demands and the journalism it deserves. Right now, ankle-deep in the Reagan era, the situation looks pretty grim.”
Originally published December 31, 1981
“For the first five years that I was writing for The New Yorker,” says a longtime contributor, “the closest I ever got to a person of color was a young white fact-checker with dreads.”
Originally published July 25, 1995
“Why am I in papers? I just love it. The only other thing I like is politics, and I’ve never let myself get into that. I think you prostitute your newspapers once you start joining political parties.”
Originally published November 29, 1976
Several news organizations requested information about jurors in Paul Manafort’s fraud trial. Conservatives say this is doxxing (it’s not).
August 20, 2018
Gothamist and DNAinfo were vital to the people that research New York
November 7, 2017
Seven months after intimating he’d shutter both sites if they unionized, Joe Ricketts did just that
November 2, 2017