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MEDIA

Chris Cuomo

More Maddow-Mania—and an Update on the Cuomo Scandal

A few high-level NBC sources have told me that Maddow's departure will likely have ripple effects across the network, and could precipitate an overhaul of the entire evening lineup.
Dylan Byers • September 24, 2021
Dylan Byers • September 22, 2021
MSNBC Stares Down the Maddow-pocalypse
Rachel Maddow Speaks At Harvard
The broadcast icon’s $30 million-a-year overall deal is a triumph for her (and Ari, and even Shell and Conde). But who will replace her at 9 p.m.? A potential successor has emerged.
Baratunde Thurston • September 21, 2021
What TV Executives Don’t Understand About the Climate Emergency
Still from The Day After Tomorrow
Broadcast and cable news have done an abysmal job of dramatizing the reality of climate change. I should know: I’ve been in the rooms where those conversations have happened.
Bob Iger, Tim Cook, and Eddy Cue at Sun Valley
Dylan Byers • September 17, 2021
Modern Day Greek Gods: Assessing Media Mount Olympus, Circa 2021
Our culture is changing, and so is the media. The story behind it all has never been more fascinating or important.
Joe Biden
Julia Ioffe • September 17, 2021
The Divorce Heard Around Washington
The Trump administration made strange bedfellows of the left, the media, the permanent political class, and the foreign policy establishment known as The Blob. Amid the fallout from Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, the political knives are out.
Joe Biden
Peter Hamby • September 14, 2021
The D.C. Media Comes for Biden
A post-Labor Day narrative has taken hold in the mainstream media: Biden the old-timer, now hobbled by his first crisis, is outmatched by today’s world and running out of time to be a consequential president.
Washington Post Editor Marty Baron with reporters Kimberly Kindy, Wesley Lowery and Jody Warrick, celebrating winning Pulitzer Prizes at The Washington Post
Julia Ioffe • August 5, 2021
Felicia Sonmez and the Truth About Objectivity
After #MeToo, after the George Floyd protests, after the Trump presidency, what is objectivity? Is it an attainable or even appropriate goal of our coverage? And does striving for it do more harm than good?
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki speaks during the daily press briefing at the White House.
Peter Hamby • August 5, 2021
What Jen Psaki Really Thinks About the Media
The White House press secretary discusses Biden's beef with Facebook, how the media changed during the Trump years, and why Democrats should talk to Fox News.
Wolf Blitzer and Jake Tapper on CNN
Julia Ioffe • July 30, 2021
The Existential Anxiety of Cable News After Trump
Journalists resented Trump for all the obvious reasons. But his presidency also reversed a long erosion of the industry—and transformed the economics of media careers.
Donald Trump reporters
Julia Ioffe • July 8, 2021
The Agony and Ecstasy of the Trump Reporters
Six months since he left office after dispatching a mob to ransack the Capitol, the journalists who covered Trump are still adjusting to a post-Trump reality.