Today is election day and even if we know the results tomorrow, it's precarious to try to predict how CNN and MSNBC will react because...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

“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...

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...