Carpenter Media’s Ominous Takeover of Local News
Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Columbia Journalism Review. In just a few years, a publisher based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has become the country’s fourth-largest newspaper operator. Some reporters wonder if it isn’t the cruelest.
EHRP Stories Win ASJA Awards!
EHRP sweeps the Social Change category of the prestigious American Society of Journalists and Authors awards.
EHRP Receives $1.65 Million Grant from the Ford Foundation
Our storytelling about and by economically vulnerable Americans recieves a transformative multi-year Ford Foundation grant.
Remembering Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers passed away this week at 91 after a remarkable life.
America Needs a Working-Class Media
Co-published by Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Columbia Journalism Review. Catering to rich audiences is not serving us.
Liberating the Media
Co-published with Nonprofit Quarterly. As journalism struggles to survive, enormously rich owners behave like neglectful parents—often ultimately disowning the very news entities they’ve helped to prop up for years.
Can Nonprofits Escape Corporate Capture?
Co-published with Nonprofit Quarterly. In a wide-ranging conversation, a group of nonprofit leaders discuss how nonprofits can build a world that aligns with their values and evades corporate capture.
A Fighter for the Working Class
Co-published with The American Prospect. Journalist Linda Tirado is dying after being shot by cops while covering the George Floyd protests. Her work told the story of poverty from the inside out.
The Relentless Cost of Chronic Diseases
Co-published with TIME. We must help ease the economic burden for patients who have chronic diseases, as well as the stigma that trails them.
It’s a Long Way Down
Co-published with Oldster Magazine. "Like hundreds of thousands of men in their early 60s across the country, I was forced to start to get used to the idea that the marketplace may be deciding that I am
Why Newspapers Are Failing
TikTok creator Caitlyn Clark (@c.a.i.t.l.y.n) discusses Alissa Quart’s new Jacobin article about the crisis facing American media.
US Media Is Collapsing. Here’s How to Save It.
Co-published with Jacobin. Mass layoffs are tearing through US media.
