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For this week’s reporter Q&A, we spoke to Jeremy Singer-Vine about his BuzzFeed News story on how political operatives are faking voter outrage on behalf of the rich and powerful. Under Trump, the Federal Communications Commission planned to scrap President Obama’s “net neutrality” rule, under which internet service providers are supposed to treat all internet communications the […]

It’s been more than a month since we first broke the story of the White House Coronavirus Task Force’s unpublicized documents. For this week’s Q&A, we spoke to Ryan Panchadsaram, former Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States under President Barack Obama and co-founder of COVID Exit Strategy, a website that tracks each state’s progress dealing with […]

Los Angeles, California, gave a thumbs up for manufacturers to begin sewing cloth masks as part of its early response to the COVID-19 outbreak. But the garment industry’s sweatshop-like conditions and poor oversight pose an even bigger risk to workers during a global pandemic, reports Alessandra Bergamin for The Lily. In this week’s reporter Q&A, we talk […]

Eddy Binford-Ross is a rising high school senior who has spent a good amount of her summer vacation dodging tear gas at protests. Binford-Ross — the editor in chief of Clypian, South Salem High School’s student newspaper — has been covering the Black Lives Matter protests in Portland, Oregon, where tactics being used by federal […]

For this week’s reporter Q&A, we talked to renowned Washington Post media critic Margaret Sullivan about her new book, “Ghosting The News.” In the book, Sullivan — who worked her way up from intern to top editor at her hometown newspaper The Buffalo News — sounds a warning bell about the death of local news. And that […]

Lost your job, late on rent — and suddenly you get an indecent proposal from your creepy landlord? With the pandemic driving up unemployment and evictions, that’s a situation that’s becoming increasingly common, especially among women in low-income jobs, reported Buzzfeed’s Amber Jamieson. Jamieson documented a stunning set of transgressions ranging from sleazy to criminal — including […]

Tightened visa restrictions are making it harder for non-U.S. citizens to study and find work in America — and that was even before the latest head-turning moves by the Trump administration.    This week we talk to Kaidi “Ruby” Yuan, a recent University of Southern California graduate now interning at the Los Angeles Times, about […]

Each week, we feature journalists who have affected powerful change. This week it’s Sarah Glover, immediate past president of the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) who wrote an open letter to the news media and the Associated Press to capitalize “B” when reporting about the Black community. Soon after her letter, AP made the momentous change […]

We’re continuing our series featuring journalists who have written powerful stories. We spoke to R.G. Dunlop about how Kentucky jailers profit from selling e-cigarettes to inmates. The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting piece revealed that those sales raked in more than $1.3 million in 2018. And while health concerns led to a 2014 ban on […]

Each week, we feature journalists who have written powerful stories — but, this time, we’re shaking things up a bit. We spoke to Sarah Matthews, an attorney for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (RCFP), about the unlawful treatment of journalists during their coverage of the protests over the police killing of George Floyd. From […]