journalism 
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/17/2021
Tom Lankford, 85, Dies; Southern Journalist With Divided Loyalties
Tom Lankford took many iconic photographs in Birmingham that publicized the cause of Civil Rights protestors. But he worked behind the scenes to cultivate relationships with the city's notorious Bull Connor to buttress the reputation of the police force while working with his publisher to squelch local demands for change that threatened the business community.
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1/17/2021
The Free Press and Democracy in a "Murder the Media" Age
by Wendy Melillo
Journalism as a profession needs to embrace its historical role as a guardian of democracy and refuse to let objectivity work as a shield for authoritarianism; authoritarians won't accept a free press anyway.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
12/2/2020
Deb Price, First Nationally Syndicated Columnist on Gay Life, Dies at 62
Deb Price's columns were at the forefront of gay and lesbian journalists working openly in the news media and news outlets covering issues concerning LGBTQ Americans and communities with depth and nuance.
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SOURCE: Newsday
11/29/2020
Social Media 'Misinformation' Endangers Democracy, Historians Say
Historians Peniel Joseph and Karl Jacoby, along with media scholar Howard Schnieder, assess the way that strategic misinformation on social media has exploited racial divisions in Trump's efforts to overturn the election results.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
11/29/2020
The Cost of Trump’s Assault on the Press and the Truth
New Yorker editor David Remnick writes that while Trump is not the first president to battle the media, his apparent belief that the press exists as his public relations agency--and anger that it doesn't work that way--are leading him to attack a fundamental institution of society with deadly consequences.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
11/9/2020
Cienfuegos Must also Answer for the Apatzingán Massacre
by Laura Castellanos
The former Secretary of National Defense for Mexico has been arrested on charges related to drug trafficking. He must face accountability for overseeing a security regime that perpetrated coordinated violence against journalists and civilians.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/8/2020
Seymour Topping, Former Times Journalist and Eyewitness to History, Dies at 98
"For Mr. Topping, known universally to colleagues as Top, the story was always about more than the day’s news developments, intriguing as they might be. It was about their historical significance, too."
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SOURCE: RetroReport
11/5/2020
Inside Retro Report's Fact Checking Process
Joe Hogan, head of fact-checking at Retro Report, explains why fact-checking is a needed skill today.
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SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
11/5/2020
President Trump’s False Claims about Election Fraud are Dangerous
by Sid Bedingfield
Elected officials' use of the media to claim election fraud has resulted in violence in the past; the news media must take responsibility to avoid fanning the flames.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
10/26/2020
What Do Foreign Correspondents Think of the U.S.?
Journalists from around the world are reporting on the 2020 Presidential race—and offering perspectives not found in American media coverage.
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SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
11/3/2020
Good TV Demands Results on Election Night, But that’s Bad for Democracy
by Kathryn Cramer Brownell
Election night 2020 promises to test whether the media has learned from failures of the past.
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SOURCE: Columbia Journalism Review
10/26/2020
Q&A: Historian Rick Perlstein on Media ‘Bothsidesism,’ and Why 2020 Definitely Isn’t 1968
Rick Perlstein has been reluctant to do media appearances, perceiving that journalists may use historical analogy as a shortcut to investigating and explaining the present. He discusses his thoughts on history and the media with CJR.
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SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
10/28/2020
The 1619 Project and Uses and Abuses of History
by Stephen Mintz
By focusing on narrow questions of fact and interpretive claims in the project in an effort to discredit it, critics of the 1619 Project have mostly failed to engage with big questions about how to do history.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
10/28/2020
New York Times, CNN Sullied By ‘Anonymous’ Charade
by Eric Wemple
Post media critic Eric Wemple says the media allowed "Anonymous" to float the belief that responsible public servants were checking the worst impulses of the Trump administration when, in fact, they accomplished nothing of the sort.
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SOURCE: Untapped New York
10/19/2020
New PBS Documentary on New York Gossip Columnist Walter Winchell
Walter Winchell's gossip-driven approach to the news made him famous; his fame helped publicize the dangers of Nazism and overcome American isolationism before World War II. A new PBS documentary considers his career and legacy.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
10/20/2020
"The Atlantic" and the Limits of Reasonableness
A new collection of writing from the venerable magazine highlights the struggles of rational argument and civil discourse in the age of Donald Trump.
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SOURCE: Vice News and Retro Report
10/14/2020
Enemies of the People: Donald Trump and the Political Press
A Vice News and Retro Report collaboration on the media coverage of the 2016 campaign asks what responsibility the news media bears for the election result.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/30/2020
The Debate Showed That Treating Trump ‘Fairly’ Only Helps Him Cheat
by Brendan Nyhan
"Will the media accurately describe Trump’s attacks on the election as dangerous and anti-democratic? Or will they run faux-neutral headlines like “Pure chaos on election night” if he says the vote is being stolen and tries to declare victory before all the votes are counted?"
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
9/24/2020
This Vanishing Moment and Our Vanishing Future: John Hersey, Hiroshima, and the End of World
by Nick Turse
Lesley Blume's new book Fallout describes how John Hersey and his editors punctured official myths about the Hiroshima attacks to write his influential book.
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SOURCE: The Nation
9/21/2020
My Life in the Media Machine
by Tom Scocca
Independent journalism has been in a decades-long death spiral because "the circulatory system of money that had made the writing possible was punctured and bleeding out, and draining into Silicon Valley."
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