Could a Paywall Have Saved Pitchfork?
The influential music publication is being folded into GQ, but only because Condé Nast fumbled a good thing
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Attacks on Press Freedoms Have Chilling Effects Far beyond Gaza
The dangers of covering the crisis aren’t limited to front-line reporting. They’re playing out behind the scenes in North American newsrooms too
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How Connie Walker Got Us Listening
The Pulitzer Prize–winning podcaster is changing journalism as we know it
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Around the World in Eighty Lies
How a writer fabricated a series of stories for Atlas Obscura
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How Journalists Can Win People Back
Trust in “the media” is failing. But countries like Norway have found a way to keep it strong
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The Rise and Fall of MuchMusic
Former staffers reveal what made the channel so special—and why MuchMusic has failed to reclaim its former glory despite a relaunch
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What’s the Point of “Pretendian” Investigations?
The latest revelation, about Buffy Sainte-Marie, is convincing, damning, and strikingly incomplete
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The Inescapable Rise of Moral Superiority
Why does every online discussion terminate in ethical grandstanding?
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TikTok Is Becoming a Publisher. Will It Ruin the Book Industry?
BookTok is beloved as a guerrilla democratizing force, but the platform’s pivot risks killing the thing that makes it great
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The Existential Crisis of Writing for Free
Should writing be treated as a strictly professionalized enterprise, or is “party in a graveyard” more the vibe?
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