This week's media is full of complex questions (4.10.25)

Like, to what extent (if at all) should reporters bring their identities into their reporting? And, should Nazi bones get a funeral? And also, who awakens your fight in these hard times?

Hi everyone,

I’m really finding myself drawn towards material that provides me with more questions than answers. I think what often gives me energy, especially in these hopeless times, is digging my brain into hard things. Things that require nuance, imagination, and frankly, just make me realize I need to learn more and more. The endless search for new information, while exhausting, also electrifies me too. I hope some of these things will do that for you.

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from listening 🎧

When Should Reporters Speak from the Heart? This is a really great episode from the KCRW podcast Question Everything. As I understand it, journalism has historically centered the journalist as an ‘unbiased’ or ‘neutral’ voice, someone who is simply reporting on what they saw and heard. Now most of us understand that we cannot divorce ourselves from our experiences and identities; they are how we see and understand the world. But when your job is to report without opinion, how do you weave your identity into the conversation? Do you? This episode highlights two journalists who chose to answer that question in very different ways. As they say in the episode, both choices come at a cost…