Margaret Sullivan

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Washington Post reporter Vivian Salama wears a cape reading ‘Free Evan’, referring to Evan Gershkovich, on the red carpet for the White House correspondents’ dinner in Washington DC on 29 April. Photograph: Tom Brenner/Reuters

Jodie Ginsberg remembers an important lesson from her decade as a Reuters foreign correspondent and bureau chief: there simply is no substitute for being at the scene.

“The first and most important source is what journalists see in front of them – their ability to give a firsthand, eyewitness account”, says Ginsberg, now the president of Committee to Protect Journalists, the non-profit advocacy organization based in New York City.

A memorable case in point was how two Associated Press journalists last year were able to tell what was happening on the ground in Mariupol, Ukraine. As a Russian siege largely destroyed the city, children’s bodies filled mass graves and shells demolished a maternity hospital, but Russian officials tried to deny it and called the horror stories nothing but fiction.…  Seguir leyendo »

‘Ageism goes far beyond celebrities and public officials.’ Photograph: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy

Just before President Biden turned 80 in November, he said something that I could identify with – that he didn’t even want to say his age out loud.

That’s how I’ve felt ever since I turned 40 – which was, let’s say, not a recent event.

American media serves as a constant, enthusiastic choir for the nation’s youth worship. Being older here is not only not for sissies, as the saying goes, but can be downright debilitating.

Surely, that desperate obsession had something to do with the plastic surgery that Madonna displayed during the Grammy awards show. The singer long praised for reinventing herself constantly had done it again, but this time she had made herself literally unrecognizable.…  Seguir leyendo »