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Journalists in the digital age should, within their means, enable safe spaces for public debate—acting as conversation leaders,87 information verifiers and amplifiers of varied perspectives.

Marie K. Shanahan • Journalism, Online Comments, and the Future of Public Discourse

For decades, editors left thousands of important stories off radio, newspapers, and televisions. Without awareness of an issue, people are uninformed because they don’t even know an issue exists. But on the internet, mistakes are made out in the open, in public, where everybody can see them. Transgressions are captured, shared, and amplified by the... See more

David Perell • What the Hell Is Going On?

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Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America

Technology companies drove the survivors into a mindset of engineered efficiency—the belief that data tells you everything of value. “Just like the tech companies, journalism has come to fetishize data. And this data has come to corrupt journalism,” Franklin Foer writes in World Without Mind. “Once journalists come to know what works, which stories

George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

The freedom of disregard.

Nell Irvin Painter • Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over

those who “consume” the news can be corrected. There are powerful, almost incontrovertible, codes of decorum maintained by and for people who are thought of as White, or who have been invited to participate in Whiteness. The racial disparity in published photographs of traumatized bodies is by now a recurring, and almost tedious, question.

Teju Cole • Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)

It’s no secret: Black culture drives pop culture. It is “the original avant-garde,” as Felipe Luciano, a former TV producer, has said. But I sometimes wonder if appropriation is a prerequisite of Black culture going mainstream.

Jason Parham • The Age of Everything Culture Is Here

Yet in North America, raising the alarm about the fact that we have outsourced the management of our critical informational pathways to algorithms run by for-profit companies, working hand in glove with governments, somehow became the terrain of the Bannonite political right, which points to a dangerous ceding of ideological territory.

Naomi Klein • Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

It was one thing to showcase our excellence through the societal standards of success, but what did it all mean if as a collective, we were still relegated to the bottom of the social ladder. It’s as if the benefits of integration would come at the cost of Black obligation to ourselves. We lacked a moral standard, ethics, values, and a code of cond