As the nation counted down this fall to a bitterly polarized election, the editorial board of The Los Angeles Times drew up a detailed outline for an endorsement that seemed obvious for an institution that had leaned liberal for generations: Vice President Kamala Harris should be the next president of …
Read More »How Tom Llamas, an NBC Anchor, Spends His Sundays
Five nights a week, Tom Llamas is one of the faces of election coverage for NBC News NOW. But on Sundays, he is about 40 minutes north of NBC’s Manhattan studios working out and hitting baseballs with his son at home in Westchester County, N.Y. “In New York City with …
Read More »How Jessica Tarlov of ‘The Five’ Became a Liberal Star on Fox News
It was a day after Bret Baier’s contentious interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, and the Fox News punditocracy on “The Five,” the network’s most popular show, was celebrating. “She’s ice-cold, she’s unlikable, and her arguments are incoherent,” sneered Jesse Watters. “The look and the tone of a D.M.V. clerk …
Read More »Washington Post Says It Won’t Endorse a Presidential Candidate
A debate inside The Washington Post continued for days among its top leaders: Should it make an endorsement in the presidential race, continuing a decades-long tradition?In the end, Jeff Bezos, the paper’s billionaire owner, decided that the answer was no.On Friday, Will Lewis, The Post’s chief executive, told the newsroom …
Read More »Opinion | Maggie Haberman on What an Unleashed Trump Might Do
This week, I released an audio essay on Donald Trump. And in a way, it was about Donald Trump’s mind and the peculiar ways in which it works, the degree to which he moves through the world without inhibition and the ways in which that is potentially worsening as he …
Read More »‘Life Is Complicated’: How a Scourge of Oligarchs Fell in Love With One
Feted by many fellow journalists and Western diplomats as a fearless scourge of corrupt oligarchs, Moldova’s most popular television host torched her soaring career and stellar image three years ago with a startling life choice. She fell in love and had a child with one of her country’s most notorious …
Read More »Nicholas Daniloff, 89, Dies; Reporter’s Arrest in Moscow Ignited a Firestorm
Nicholas Daniloff, an American news correspondent whose 1986 arrest in Moscow on trumped-up espionage charges ignited a political firestorm in the United States and an international crisis in the latter stages of the Cold War, died on Thursday at an assisted living facility in Cambridge, Mass. He was 89. His …
Read More »Amazon Enters News With Live Election Coverage From Brian Williams
Amazon is dipping its toe into the news business, with a familiar face. Brian Williams, the longtime news anchor, will host a newscast on the evening of Election Day on Amazon Video, the company said on Thursday. The show, titled “Election Night Live With Brian Williams,” will deliver election results …
Read More »Hard News and Honky-Tonks: How to Cover the American South
Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. A presidential campaign. A hurricane. A cult-favorite cabbage slaw. For Emily Cochrane, a reporter who covers the American South for The New York Times, no day is ever the same. …
Read More »Kamala Harris Sets an Interview With a Not-So-Friendly Outlet: Fox News.
Vice President Kamala Harris has agreed to an interview with Fox News, the network said on Monday. The interview, with Fox News’s chief political anchor, Bret Baier, will take place near Philadelphia on Wednesday, shortly before it airs at 6 p.m. Eastern on Mr. Baier’s program, “Special Report.” Ms. Harris …
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