5 signs your racially charged joke is really just racist
Race jokes aren’t taboo, you just have to learn how to make them.
On Dec 9, 2014 by S.E. Smith
Fact-checking is a journalist’s job—even in rape cases
The fallout over Rolling Stone‘s reporting on an alleged UVA campus gang rape says a lot about how we report on sexual assault.
On Dec 5, 2014 by EJ Dickson
Why the tech-bro takeover of media keeps failing
The mass resignations at the New Republic today are part of a bigger pattern.
On Dec 5, 2014 by Miles Klee
The transgender revolution will not be clickbait
As trans visibility increases, the media are making the same old tired mistakes.
On Dec 3, 2014 by Mitch Kellaway
You can’t make it alone on YouTube
We built our YouTube empire from nothing, but today, things are very different.
On Dec 3, 2014 by Hank Green
The world was watching as Ferguson reacted to the grand jury’s decision
Protests dominated news around the globe.
On Nov 25, 2014 by Patrick Howell O’Neill
Inside the overnight success of ‘Serial’ and the dawn of podcasting’s golden age
The golden age of the podcast may have finally arrived.
On Nov 24, 2014 by Ashlyn Keefe
The problem with saying Michael Phelps’s alleged girlfriend was ‘born a man’
The media response to Taylor Lianne Chandler’s revelation that she was born intersex illustrates our failure to understand trans issues.
On Nov 20, 2014 by S.E. Smith
What a hashtag says about journalism’s ongoing race problem
#HowMediaWritesWOC took on racism in journalism with a bang.
On Nov 20, 2014 by Victoria Law
5 things online dating taught me about racism
Colorism reveals the racism embedded in the way we talk about different shades of black and brown.
On Nov 19, 2014 by Kristin Collins Jackson
I was at the center of that CNN street harassment mansplaining video
I have zero regrets.
On Nov 13, 2014 by Amanda Seales
China censors Obama’s open Internet speech
The instructions leaked online yesterday.
On Nov 12, 2014 by Patrick Howell O’Neill
Fangirls run the world—just ask Alex From Target
Don’t underestimate any demographic that’s capable of turning you into a worldwide meme within a matter of hours.
On Nov 4, 2014 by S.E. Smith
TV’s not dead yet
The Internet isn’t killing television; it’s making it better.
On Oct 31, 2014 by Ashlyn Keefe
How John Oliver made a media empire
Have you seen the latest John Oliver video?
On Oct 30, 2014 by Jack Mirkinson
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