Journalism

For decades, Wilbert Rideau investigated America’s prison system—from the inside.

Rufus Sewell and Gillian Anderson star in a re-creation of an infamous BBC interview that feels like a hallucinated episode of “The Crown.”

Does calling attention to political disruptions just make the problem worse?

The death toll for journalists in Gaza is extremely high, and Israel has been accused of targeting them. Plus, a conversation with the Oscar-nominated director Cord Jefferson.

How a picture of a photojournalist bathing became a visual metaphor for the end of the war.

The author of “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “The Wager” on his writing and reporting process, and adapting his work for the screen.

The legendary journalist has chronicled the White House going back to Nixon. He knows how to interview Presidents. But, with Donald Trump, Woodward got more than he bargained for.

A childhood amid Northern Ireland’s Troubles made me desperate to see the wider world.

At a moment of political polarization and attacks on the media, A. G. Sulzberger goes public in defense of traditional journalistic values.

The paper’s publisher discusses bias in reporting, the Times’ financial comeback, and criticisms of its coverage of Trump, trans issues, and the war in Ukraine.

Did the veteran newscaster give Kissinger a pass on his hundredth birthday?

Naomi Fry on the HBO series as a post-hopefulness piece of entertainment, and on the political implications of the finale.

Jelani Cobb and Steve Coll, the current and past deans of the Columbia Journalism School, discuss the challenges that reporters face in covering the former President’s 2024 campaign. 

The two journalists were both foreign correspondents in Moscow. Gershkovich is now being held in a Russian prison, accused by the regime of espionage.

Cornish has watched the media evolve, experiment, and experience dramatic layoffs. In “The Assignment,” her CNN podcast, she’s trying to find a new way forward.

A succession battle involving a fight for the patronage of Sarah Jessica Parker threatens to stop the presses at a Greenwich Village newspaper.

Masha Gessen on the public discourse over trans identity, the real reasons for the culture war over gender, and how well-meaning people can do better.

Half a century ago, most of the public said they trusted the news media. Today, most say they don’t. What happened to the power of the press?

Clare Malone speaks with the publisher and managing editor of the North Shore Leader, the local newspaper that first exposed George Santos’s lies. Why was he elected anyway?

A semi-attentive investigation into a confounding sentence type.