journalism

There's a push underway to include a new tax credit for news organizations in the final New York state budget plan.

In 1999, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology admitted to discriminating against women on its faculty, forcing institutions across the country to confront a problem they had long ignored: the need for more women at the top levels of science. Written by Kate Zernike, the journalist who broke the story for The Boston Globe, "The Exceptions" is the untold story of how sixteen highly accomplished women on the MIT faculty came together to do the work that triggered the historic admission.

Ken Tingley was the editor of The Post-Star in Glens Falls, New York from 1999 to 2020. He joins us this morning to discuss his new book, "The Last American Newspaper: An Institution in Peril, Through the Eyes of a Small-Town Editor."

Tomorrow "CNN This Morning" will premiere from 6-9 a.m. It is CNN’s new morning news program with a fresh name, format and set co-hosted by Don Lemon, Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins.

Journalist and essayist Jori Lewis discusses her first book, 'Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation and a Crop That Changed History.'

Katy Tur is the anchor of Katy Tur Reports on MSNBC, a correspondent for NBC News, and the author of the New York Times bestseller Unbelievable. Tur is the recipient of a 2017 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. In her new memoir, "Rough Draft," Tur writes about her eccentric and volatile California childhood, punctuated by forest fires, earthquakes, and police chases—all seen from a thousand feet in the air. She recounts her complicated relationship with a father who was magnetic, ambitious, and, at times, frightening. And she charts her own survival from local reporter to globe-trotting foreign correspondent, running from her past.

The new book “Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR” by journalist Lisa Napoli is a group biography of four beloved women who fought sexism, covered decades of American news, and whose voices defined NPR.

Academy Award winning documentary film director and producer Alex Gibney has been named the 2021 winner of The Nellie Bly Award for Investigative Reporting by The Museum of Political Corruption. We welcome President and Founder of The Museum of Political Corruption Bruce Roter to tell us more.

The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople. And it has something to teach us today.