Blog | Ariana Noel Pekary

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Oct 31, 20202 min read

A Trump official just helped make my point

I just read something surprising. Please read this for a critical lesson about the news-for-profit model. Today, there is new evidence...

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Oct 30, 20201 min read

My interview with Ana Marie Cox for Crooked Media

"Cable news is bad for America" Big thanks to Ana Marie Cox for taking up this topic on her podcast, With Friends Like These -...

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Oct 26, 20201 min read

On cable news, it's 2016 all over again

One of the key reasons I resigned from MSNBC is due to how ratings determined most of their election coverage. I watched substantive...

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Oct 2, 20202 min read

The paradox of Jeff Zucker

In my last column for Columbia Journalism Review, I wrote about how CNN's President was caught on tape helping Donald Trump during the...

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Sep 18, 20202 min read

My newest for CJR: why give CNN credit?

Last week, we witnessed the best and the worst of CNN. One of the best segments was Kyung Lah's heartfelt piece on the rise of evictions...

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Sep 16, 20201 min read

New gig: Public Editor for CJR covering CNN

I'm excited to report that starting this month, I am writing two columns a month for Columbia Journalism Review as a public editor with a...

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Aug 4, 20202 min read

Follow up + a note about ideology

First: thank you everyone for your responses. I’m overwhelmed, surprised, and heartened by your reaction. Over the last couple of...

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Aug 3, 20205 min read

Personal news: why I’m now leaving MSNBC

“Just quit.” That’s the advice Alec gave a year and a half ago when I expressed concerns about my job. “You just quit. It’s that...

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Jan 1, 20202 min read

The best thing I did this year was say "I'm sorry"

A long time ago, I was a bad friend. In middle school, Rachel and I became fast friends when we rode the bus home together. She had an...

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