Outside the Beltway

A longtime “Hillary Beat” reporter ruminates on what she and her candidate could have done differently in 2016.

Ring Lardner said he would “rather write for the New Yorker at five cents a word than for Cosmopolitan at one dollar a word.” A century later, he’d be lucky to get those rates.

The long-time public radio host has died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

Sean Hannity was Michael Cohen’s “secret client,” but it’s not clear that should matter to anyone.

The parents of two of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre are suing Alex Jones for falsely accusing them of lying about the deaths of their children.

Argumentation without the intent to persuade is masturbation, not journalism.

President Trump won’t attend nerd prom again this year. That’s a good thing.

The Atlantic fired one of their few conservative voices for saying women who have abortions should be hanged. Was this beyond the pale?

Thanks to a combination of sensationalism and outright lies, a fairly conventional story about an annual protest march in Mexico was turned into Fox News fodder that raised images of an invading army of illegal immigrants.

Old-fashioned notions of journalistic neutrality are chafing young reporters in the Age of Trump.

News anchors at dozens of local stations owned by conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group were recently required to read a script mandated by corporate headquarters, and it’s leading to some bad media coverage for Sinclair.

Their website has been scrubbed! Tillerson has all but vanished! The sky is falling!

A well-meaning journalist brushes off critiques by experts in the field. He owes it to his readers to keep learning.

Is Google acting as a good citizen here? Or abusing its market dominance?

The guy from Real People? He’s rich.

The JK Rowling-owned fan site is having trouble competing with fan-owned sites.

Breitbart News appears to be fading in terms of readership, but the alt-right politics it represents is not going away.

The network’s longtime “strategic analyst” is “ashamed” of his association because they’ve become a “propaganda machine.”

It may be time for transparency on pay structures so employees know what others in comparable positions are making.

Having journalistic integrity at the Fair and Balanced network has never been more challenging.

CJR’s Dan Mitchell has a tiny quibble with a recent viral NYT thumbsucker. 

Two seemingly contradictory essays out today highlight the exhausting political conversation environment.

POLITICO buries the lede in making the case for “Donald Trump’s bubble presidency.”

Four social media stars have been fired from their television show after the revelation that Pamela Gellar is their mother.

Michael Gerson and Amy Holmes will host a program loosely based on “Firing Line” starting in April.

A recent change to the way the social media giant selects articles readers see first has crushed a web magazine.

In my life I have not once, not a single time, encountered the name of Chelsea Handler in any context apart from Fox News articles. 

While I don’t always agree with her, I’ve never ceased to be amazed at the sheer vitriol she inspires, given that she’s unfailingly polite, not discernibly partisan, and bends over backwards to acknowledge the merits of competing viewpoints.

In the United States, in contrast, the judgment citizens hold of the media, along increasingly with everything else, turns on one’s identification with a political tribe. 

Two Amtrak crashes in less than a week is newsworthy. It is not, however, a trend.

The guy who found Al Capone’s vault wishes we had a guy like Sean Hannity back in the Watergate era.

The latest domino to fall in the ongoing wave of sexual harassment and abuse revelations is Matt Lauer.

Don’t cry for Spicer.

There are two sides in this war between Trump and the media, but only one of them is the right side.

A Federal Jury orders Rolling Stone to pay up.

Journalistic malpractice has real consequences.

News outlets are suddenly finding out that Trump was a cad in 2005. Film at 11.

The erstwhile Republican firebrand and current NeverTrumper shares his personal struggles.