1. Here Are Your Referees for the Trump-Clinton DebatesNBC’s Lester Holt will host round one.
    By Eric Levitz
  2. Melania Trump Sues the Daily Mail for $150 Million Over Escort RumorsYou can’t say she didn’t warn them.
    By Charley Lanyon
  3. media
    How Fox News Women Took Down Roger AilesThe most powerful, and predatory, man in media warned his staff about the “enemy within.” Turns out it was him.
  4. Media False Equivalence Is Trump’s Best Friend in the Debate Over RacismClinton offered a detailed indictment. Trump replied with an insult. How’s that a draw?
    By Ed Kilgore
  5. select all
    The Rise of Video Is Making 2016 a Weird Year to Be a Digital PublisherIt’s video all the way down.
    By Brian Feldman
  7. FBI Investigating Suspected Russian Hack of the New York TimesThe paper says hackers only targeted its Moscow bureau, disputing reports of a more widespread attack.
    By Charley Lanyon
  8. Melania Trump Threatens News Outlets With Defamation SuitThe couple who sues together, stays together.
    By Charley Lanyon
  9. media
    Andrea Tantaros Sues Fox News, Claims Retaliation for Reporting HarassmentShe says she was punished after accusing Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, and others of inappropriate sexual advances.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  10. A British Celebrity Scientist Just Schooled a Climate-Change DenierThere’s actual science at play — who would have thought?
    By Eva Hill and Cait Munro
  11. Rupert Murdoch Promotes Roger Ailes Loyalists to Run Fox NewsRoger Ailes’s old job has been divided into two positions. Jack Abernethy will run the business side, and Bill Shine will oversee content and talent.
    By Gabriel Sherman
  12. media
    Report: ‘Multiple Women’ Taped Conversations With Roger AilesAnd sources say Fox News employees feared their boss was monitoring their conversations.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  13. ink-stained wretches
    Sean Hannity Gets Called Out for False Voter-Fraud Claims, Doubles DownHe tried to prove Brian Stelter wrong by citing the fact the CNN media critic debunked.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  14. fox news
    Ailes Used Fox News Budget to Finance ‘Black Room’ Campaigns Against His EnemiesHe hired consultants, political operatives, and private detectives to carry out his personal agenda.
    By Gabriel Sherman
  15. Fmr. Fox Booker: Harassed by Ailes for 20 Years“He’s a predator.”
    By Gabriel Sherman
  16. the national circus
    How the Media Did (and Didn’t) Fail in Covering the Rise of Donald Trump“The problem is not that the press is failing to do due diligence; the problem is that many of his [Trump’s] adherents are impervious to that diligence.”
    By Frank Rich
  17. the case against the media
    The Case Against the Media, by the MediaA damning self-examination, with some uplift thrown in.
    By The Editors
  18. the case against the media
    113 Journalists Surveyed on Why They’re So DespisedOur colleagues working in print, television, and digital media air their grievances and bare their souls.
    By The Editors
  19. interview
    National Report’s Allen Montgomery on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“I think I have a really bad reputation. But I’m a really nice guy! People have bashed me. I’m used to all that.”
    By Jeff Wise
  20. interview
    Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“If you want to please people, you’re in the wrong line of work.”
    By Nick Tabor
  21. interview
    Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“The mainstream media suffers from ADD — they cover a story and then they abandon it.”
    By Nick Tabor
  22. interview
    Fusion’s Alexis Madrigal on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“I think the media has been too afraid to just say, ‘You’re a racist.’”
    By Nick Tabor
  23. interview
    Journalist Ana Marie Cox on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“That’s the way our business works: You have to be entertaining.”
    By Nick Tabor
  24. interview
    Bob Woodward on the Media“If there’s something that one of the candidates did that we learn about in somebody’s memoir in 20 years, that really was essential to understanding who they are — that means we failed, in my view.”
    By Nick Tabor
  25. interview
    Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“We can only make things exciting if they’re, like, happening in front of us with funny hats.”
    By Nick Tabor
  26. interview
    Slate’s David Auerbach on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“The free-content-plus-ads model in general is not working. The rise of clickbait and its ensuing decline is in fact evidence of this.”
    By Jeff Wise
  27. interview
    The Marshall Project’s Bill Keller on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“The most troublesome tension is the one between the need to file immediately, because a thousand other people are filing immediately, and the time it takes to do real reporting.”
    By Jeff Wise
  28. interview
    Jezebel’s Clover Hope on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“There’s this idea that the woman can’t possibly be real, which is a little bit of an issue.” 
    By Nick Tabor
  29. interview
    Dean Baquet on the Media“Print was this beautiful, perfect medium. You had all day to polish it. Speed was not an issue.”
    By Gabriel Sherman
  30. interview
    Daniel McCarthy on the Media“I do think the right has more grounds to complain than the left does.”
    By Nick Tabor
  31. interview
    Erik Wemple on the Media“More so than the newspapers, more so than radio stations, more so than any other segment of the media, [networks] are tremendously allergic to on-the-record accountability.” 
    By Nick Tabor
  32. interview
    Daniel Okrent on the Media“In the atomization of media, audiences find the one that’s most gratifying to them, the one that tells them what they want to hear rather than what they don’t want to hear.”
    By Nick Tabor
  33. interview
    The Wire’s David Simon on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“The problem for journalism is: Our actual problems are bigger, more complicated, more sprawling and complex than good guys and bad guys.”
    By Nick Tabor
  34. interview
    Glenn Greenwald on the Media“The ethos of a corporation is completely different from what a journalistic ethos is supposed to be.”
    By Jeff Wise
  35. interview
    NYU Professor Jay Rosen on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“The campaign is sort of like Christmas decorations. You bring it out every four years, set it up, and it runs the same as it always has.”
    By Nick Tabor
  36. interview
    Gay Talese on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“Get off your ass. You must show up. You must show up.”
    By Nick Tabor
  37. interview
    MTV News’ Jamil Smith on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“When you talk about the internet being a bad thing, it’s inherently a strike against media diversity.”
    By Nick Tabor
  38. interview
    Recode’s Kara Swisher on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“Journalists are not immune to business concerns, even if they sometimes act like they are.”
    By Jeff Wise
  39. interview
    Kai El’ Zabar on the Media“We were accused of calling the race card, and never even consulted — the police’s word was always taken as fact.”
    By Jeff Wise
  40. interview
    Entertainment Journalist Jeanne Wolf on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“It’s all about the business of selling tickets and making ratings and making clicks.” 
    By Nick Tabor
  41. interview
    Journalist Jeff Sharlet on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“The biggest problem is the overly kind coverage of conservatism.”
    By Nick Tabor
  42. interview
    Journalist Jonah Weiner on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“One of the things that I will feel least good about is the knowledge that some irreducible part of my job is to help rich people, who have partnered with rich companies, sell shit — and feel really good about themselves.” 
    By Nick Tabor
  43. interview
    Kurt Bardella on the Media“It’s no longer viable or plausible to try and say, ‘Oh, we’re just going to be objective.’ How could you not have an opinion at this point, when your reporter is sitting there and Donald Trump is calling him an idiot?” 
    By Jeff Wise
  44. interview
    Margaret Sullivan on the Media“I think there’s a tendency to overcover the horse race and undercover the issues.”
    By Nick Tabor
  45. interview
    Ebony’s Kathy Chaney on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“I’m at the police station every week, doing the blotter, and I see all the violent crime that happens. It never makes the headlines; it’s never in the A or B block on the newscast.” 
    By Nick Tabor
  46. interview
    Author Masha Gessen on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“There are other ways of evaluating whether somebody’s evil or good, other than asking, ‘Isn’t he popular?’”
    By Nick Tabor
  47. interview
    The Week’s Marc Ambinder on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“We like to pretend that every story we write is akin to the movie version of All the President’s Men.”
    By Nick Tabor
  48. interview
    Michael Wertheim on the Media“I think every media company is trying to figure out ways to defend against the algorithms and also play along with the algorithms at the same time.”
    By Jeff Wise
  49. interview
    Gawker’s Nick Denton on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“Defiant journalism has never had that great a business model.”
    By Nick Tabor
  50. interview
    MSNBC’s Matt Bradley on What’s Wrong (and Right) With the Media“One of the things that’s always struck me is that when people talk about the media, they almost always mean television.”
    By Jeff Wise
  51. interview
    Sabrina Siddiqui on the Media“The danger of being so fixated on one candidate is also that you’re not informing the public, which is what your job is.”
    By Nick Tabor
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