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Plus: Bon Appétit gets further filleted, and McClatchy is giving employees a raise. By The Objective Staff Feb. 12, 2021, 12:01 p.m. Feb. 12, 2021, 12:01 p.m. Editor’s note: The Front Page is a biweekly newsletter from The Objective, a publication that offers reporting, first-person commentary, and reported essays on how journalism has misrepresented or excluded specific communities in coverage, as well as how newsrooms have treated staff from those communities. We happily share each issue with Nieman Lab readers. “Despite even major public failings, they keep coming back because they work behind the scenes to protect themselves and each other to stay in power and preserve the status quo,” writes Jennifer Barnett in her Medium piece: “I Left My Career in Prestige Media Because of the Shitty Men in Charge and They Are Still In Charge and Still Fucking Up.” While working as managing editor of The Atlantic, Barnett discovered a pattern: Men, afte ....
Welcome to Lit Century: 100 Years, 100 Books. Combining literary analysis with an in-depth look at historical context, hosts Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols choose one book for each year of the 20th century, and along with special guests will take a deep dive into a hundred years of literature. In this episode, writer, actor and director John Cotter joins hosts Catherine Nichols and Sandra Newman to discuss Wallace Shawn’s 1996 play, The Designated Mourner, about the fate of intellectuals during an authoritarian coup in an unnamed country. From the episode: Catherine Nichols: Do you have a picture of what Howard’s essential nature is, to describe maybe to people who haven’t read the play or who maybe are just curious of your interpretation, since you’ve inhabited him a lot? ....
On January 27, a piece published on Medium began circulating among folks who work in media. Jennifer Barnett, a former managing editor at The Atlantic, published a lightning rod of an essay about the verbal abuse, backbiting, shunning, pettiness, and threats she endured from her former male boss. Barnett withstood that treatment until she couldn’t, and eventually left the industry altogether. “I knew I was walking away from a career I spent decades building,” she wrote. Barnett didn’t name names, but she left a breadcrumb trail that made it clear she was writing about James Bennet, The Atlantic’s former editor-in-chief, who left in 2016 to become the editorial page editor at the ....
@Deborah: I have several reactions to your reaction. First, Barnett says she’s heard things are much better, though hardly perfect, under Bennet’s successor at The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg. I would point out that Adrienne LaFrance is a star and produced the single best piece on QAnon I’ve ever read. I think she’s also the managing editor. Second, Bennet was replaced at The New York Times by Kathleen Kingsbury, who I hold in high regard. She had been interim, and she got the job officially last week. Third, no publications have made a better, more profitable transition to the internet than The Atlantic and the Times. ....