Cultural Resources
Journalism
Articles/Essays/Op-eds
Is Substack the Media Future We Want? Anna Wiener. “The newsletter service is a software company that, by mimicking some of the functions of newsrooms, has made itself difficult to categorize…. A robust press is essential to a functioning democracy, and a cultural turn toward journalistic individualism might not be in the collective interest.”
A Moral Witness, Fintan O’Toole. “Martha Gellhorn’s letters to her lovers and intimate friends involve a remarkable feat of reportage on the war within Gellhorn herself.” How she maintained a balance between intimacy and detachment in her reporting. A review of Yours, for Probably Always: Martha Gellhorn’s Letters of Love and War, 1930–1949, edited by Janet Somerville.