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This story originally appeared in Molloy’s newsletter, The Present Age, and is republished here with permission. A new Media Matters report confirms what many of us have suspected for years: the right ...

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In their April 29, 2024 issue, The Mercury’s previous editorial board published their goodbyes to the paper and to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). In their final issue, the outgoing managing ...

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Headshot of Anita Varma by Mary Inhea Kang. Cover design by Chang Jae Lee. Both photos courtesy Varma. Looking at solidarity in journalism, University of Texas at Austin assistant professor Anita ...

On Tuesday, 153 of the most prominent journalists, authors, and writers, including J. K. Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Brooks, published an open call for civility in Harper’s Magazine. They ...

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Illustration by Frankie Huang/The Objective. This piece is a part of our series “The Food Media Reckoning” — a collection of reporting, essays, and criticism about the holes that still exist in food ...

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