Journalists
Q. & A.
The War in Gaza Has Been Deadly for Journalists
The president of the Committee to Protect Journalists explains why Israel’s military campaign has led to an unprecedented number of deaths among members of the press in just two months.
Annals of Communications
The Fight for a Free Press in the Muscogee Nation
A new documentary on an outlet’s struggle to cover its own tribal government charts the implicit challenge that the American media writ large has faced in the past eight years.
Our Local Correspondents
The Lure of Urban Fishing
A day at Prospect Park Lake with Esther Wang, a local journalist who takes readers into the polluted rivers and murky ponds of New York City, which are home to a surprising number of fish.
Infinite Scroll
My A.I. Writing Robot
A new wave of artificial-intelligence startups is trying to “scale language” by automating the work of writing. I asked one such company to try to replace me.
Q. & A.
Why Masha Gessen Resigned from the PEN America Board
A conversation about balancing free-speech commitments in an era of war.
Daily Comment
The Unimaginable Horror of a Friend’s Arrest in Moscow
It’s painful and surreal to write these words: Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, is being held by Russian authorities on espionage charges.
Persons of Interest
Maggie Haberman, the Confidence Man’s Chronicler
During the Trump era, Haberman became an avatar of journalism’s promise as well as of its failures. She sees herself as a demystifier.
Postscript
How Grant Wahl Changed the Place of Soccer in America
The indefatigable sportswriter from Kansas knew that the power of the global game extended far beyond the field of play.
News Desk
A Hacked Newsroom Brings a Spyware Maker to U.S. Court
When Roman Gressier, an American reporter working in El Salvador, found out that he and his colleagues were being surveilled, he feared persecution and worried for his sources’ safety.
Profiles
Emmanuel Carrère Writes His Way Through a Breakdown
France’s renowned author, known for his penetrating portraits of murderers and disaster victims, trains his eye on his own emotional collapse.
Daily Comment
Two Murders in the Amazon
The disappearance of Dom Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira, and the crisis created by Jair Bolsonaro’s policies.
Letter from the Southwest
The Staff of Uvalde’s Local Paper Cover the Worst Day of Their Lives
The paper’s employees lost neighbors, acquaintances, and a daughter in a school shooting. Then they had to report the story.
Q. & A.
What a Polish Dissident Sees in Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
“No nation is doomed for failure or destined to live in captivity,” the journalist and historian Adam Michnik says.
Annals of Communications
The Day Foreign Journalists Felt Forced to Leave Moscow
After a meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry, dozens of outlets moved their reporters out of the country.
Daily Comment
A Russian Journalist Who Stayed Behind
As the war escalates, real reporting from within Putin’s circle has become nearly impossible.
Satire from The Borowitz Report
Putin Clarifies That His Ban on Journalists Does Not Include Tucker Carlson
“I had thought that it was clear that I didn’t mean Tucker Carlson when I said ‘journalists.’ ”
Q. & A.
How Russia’s Nobel-Winning Newspaper Is Covering Ukraine
“We continue to call war war,” Dmitry Muratov, the editor of Novaya Gazeta, said. “We are waiting for the consequences.”
News Desk
The Murder of Mexican Journalists Spreads to a Magical Town
A magazine editor in San Cristóbal de las Casas, a mecca for tourists and expats, falls victim to a relentless wave of violence against the press.
A Reporter at Large
The Accidental Revolutionary Leading Belarus’s Uprising
How Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya came to challenge her country’s dictatorship.
Letter from Moscow
Can Russia’s Press Ever Be Free?
The journalists of Novaya Gazeta report on dangerous conflicts—and endure threats of their own.