Portside

• The Pro-Trump Media's Post-Charlottesville Identity Crisis – Charlie Warzel (BuzzFeed)
• About That VICE Charlottesville Documentary – Ranjan Roy (Medium)
• Behind the Google Diversity Memo Furor is Fear of Google’s Vast, Opaque Power – Ezra Klein (Vox)
• "Trump TV": How the Sinclair Merger Would Move Media Further Right – Janine Jackson interviews Craig Aaron (Truthout)
• Kellogg Research Explains the Factors behind Journalist Killings in Mexico – Katherine Corcoran (Kellogg Institute for International Studies)
• A Crucial New Site Tracks Attacks on Press in the US – Ashley Feinberg (Wired)

The Pro-Trump Media's Post-Charlottesville Identity Crisis

By Charlie Warzel
August 16, 2017
BuzzFeed

The movement is muddled, misunderstood, and isolated — much like its president.

About That VICE Charlottesville Documentary

By Ranjan Roy
August 16, 2017
Medium

If politics on CNN are sport, on VICE they’re porn.
 

Behind the Google Diversity Memo Furor is Fear of Google’s Vast, Opaque Power

By Ezra Klein
August 10, 2017
Vox

Why an anti-diversity memo by a midlevel software engineer became a national scandal.

"Trump TV": How the Sinclair Merger Would Move Media Further Right

Janine Jackson interviews Craig Aaron
August 20, 2017
Truthout

Sinclair Broadcasting is a company with a very strong ideological agenda, and they push, to all of their affiliates, a series of conservative commentators who are must-runs for all those stations.

Kellogg Research Explains the Factors behind Journalist Killings in Mexico

By Katherine Corcoran
August 3, 2017
Kellogg Institute for International Studies

Nearly 40 percent of all attacks on journalists since 2012 are carried out by some state actor, be it police, politicians or soldiers.

A Crucial New Site Tracks Attacks on Press in the US

By Ashley Feinberg  
August 2, 2017
Wired

The US Press Freedom Tracker intends to document press freedom violations in a place that hasn't historically required it: the United States.