Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
My Visiting Nieman Application Essay This is the application essay for my Visiting Nieman Fellowship. It was based off of this talk I gave in August, as well as lots of conversations I’ve had with people across public media. I am very excited to spend May-June 2015 at Harvard and MIT to begin to develop…
The New York Daily News on Tuesday fired an editor for a “series of egregious and inexplicable errors” made while handling the material of one of its most popular columnists, making it appear as if he had plagiarized. Jim Rich, the paper’s editor in chief, issued a statement saying the editor responsible for King’s column’s…
oh hi We at Wonkette are serious journalists, so we like to stay on top of when there is a hot guy. We have done deep analysis time and again on how hot Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is, especially when he’s man-flirting with our President Obama, and now it is time to file a…
New York’s primary has been a mess even by this year’s generally messy standards. The state’s closed system requires voters to register with a party more than six months in advance if they want to vote in the primary—which is by far the earliest and most independent-unfriendly deadline in the nation. Previously unaffiliated voters—and there are a…
The county of Kings is playing an outsized role in New York State’s presidential primary race — particularly among Democrats. As the birthplace of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, Brooklyn figures into nearly every one of his stump speeches. It’s also where former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has based her national campaign headquarters. Yet, even…
Mayor Bill de Blasio has ordered the New York City Board of Elections to investigate why more than 63,000 registered Democrats were dropped from the voting rolls since last fall. The request comes the same day a WNYC analysis revealed the largest decline in active registered Democrats statewide was in Brooklyn. But new data provided by…
Bernie Sanders is raising staggering amounts of money through the ActBlue fundraising site. Much of it comes from small donors. How much did he raise through February? $112,718,405. When the 2016 election began, the idea was that big money from big donors would dominate the election. Instead, many candidates with robust super PACs have failed;…
A former New York City police officer won’t face any jail time after a judge reduced his manslaughter conviction to criminally negligent homicide today. A jury convicted Peter Liang of second-degree manslaughter in February for the shooting death of Akai Gurley. The police department fired Liang shortly after the verdict. Liang was 28 years old…
Facebook is exploring new ways for individual users to profit from their posts on the network, The Verge has learned. A user survey distributed this week hints at a broad range of ways that users could make money or promote a cause, including a tip jar, branded content, and taking a cut of the ad…