Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Four years ago, intimate photographs of Danish journalist Emma Holten were posted on the web. Thousands viewed them and she still receives online harassment. The issues of revenge porn and hacked photos are part of a larger problem with our relationship to consent, she argues. So Holten decided to pose for and release a new…
“We’ve all done it,” begins one of the spicier dialogues in the new Netflix political thriller, “House of Cards.” Janine Skorsky, a veteran political reporter, is revealing to her young colleague, Zoe Barnes, how female journalists in Washington snag their scoops. “I used to suck, screw, and jerk anything that moved just to get a…
Most are nothing like their unethical onscreen counterparts. Photo: Photo Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon/© 2012 Knight Takes King Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved. A few months ago, I was sitting at a hotel in Huntington Beach, California, typing notes on my laptop, when two teenagers came up to me and started asking me questions. What…
Millions of people are more than willing to pay for steady access to streaming content. Netflix counts 50 million subscribers to its online video library, and Spotify has 12.5 million listeners ponying up a monthly fee for a massive buffet of music. For magazines, however, the idea of paying a flat fee for unlimited access hasn’t caught on. The idea of banding together into…
The noose is tightening around men and women who are indispensable to facilitating independent coverage of the country. Zhao Yan, a Chinese journalist jailed while working for The New York Times, escorted by relatives after his release from the state security prison in Beijing (Claro Cortes IV/Reuters) For her last two years in China, Angela…
Photo Megyn Kelly in front of Fox News headquarters in New York. Credit Stephanie Sinclair for The New York Times close shareTools On a gray Wednesday in November, the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and four producers gathered around a conference table on the 17th floor of the News Corporation building in Manhattan. They were…
main NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Fox News took time out of four broadcasts on Saturday to apologize for four separate instances of incorrect information that portrayed Muslims in a negative light. Several of the cases involved incendiary comments about “no-go zones” in Europe, where Islamic law supposedly supersedes local law and where non-Muslims fear to go….
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo main NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo told CNN Tuesday she intends to sue Fox News in the wake of the channel’s coverage of supposed “no go” zones for non-Muslims. She said the channel “insulted” her city. “When we’re insulted, and when we’ve had an image, then I think we’ll…
AOL Inc. (AOL:US), the owner of the Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Engadget, is considering closing some websites as part of a restructuring at the company, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. The Web portal is looking to close underperforming sites and switch resources to other AOL-owned properties that are performing better, the…
