Human Rights

The Wall Street Journal - Americans heard a lot about Jews in 2022, from a hostage-taking at a Texas synagogue in January to the unapologetic broadcasting of antisemitic conspiracy theories at year’s end by Kanye West and the white supremacist Nick Fuentes. University campuses produced sharp controversies over free speech and antisemitism, as some student...

As anti-Holocaust denial and antisemitism rises in the Us, a symposium, “Confronting Antisemitism: Activating Archives, Libraries, and Museums in the Fight Against Antisemitism”, at the Center for Jewish History in New York on 17 October investigates what museums and archives can do to counteract modern, endemic and commonplace forms of racial and ethnic hatred towards...

Effective resiliency plans will help safeguard against Election Day disruptions.  America’s intelligence agencies have unanimously concluded that the risk of cyberattacks on election infrastructure is clear and present — and likely to grow. 1 While officials have long strengthened election security by creating resiliency plans, 2 the evolving nature of cyber...

Columbia Journalism Review - Local news has taken a beating in New York in recent years. Unless they’re on watch, New York’s papers risk losing touch with the city and the people living in it. Research shows that a decline in local news contributes to a drop in civic awareness and participation. On the bright...

The New York Times - New York City used to be awash in newspapers.  At one point, there were at least seven dailies, including The Herald Tribune (closed in 1966) and New York Newsday (closed in 1995).  The internet was supposed to help news outlets find audiences, but sustainable...

The New York Times - A new civic-education project in a Manhattan federal courthouse gives teenagers a positive experience with the law. 18 students from John Bowne High School in Flushing, Queens were the first to test-drive Justice For All: Courts and the Community, a the new center which...

Crain's New York - In addition to its partners ‘New York' magazine and Lenfest Institute for Journalism, six foundations have contributed $8.5 million.  Months after Crain's predicted that nonprofits "could be the future of New York journalism," New York magazine and its partners announced the creation of...

The New York Times - With the once robust metropolitan news coverage in New York dwindling, a new nonprofit website called The City is teaming up with New York magazine in hopes of replacing some of that lost local accountability and investigative journalism. The City will be led by Jere Hester, a lifelong Brooklynite and...

There is about to be a new journalism institution in town, as reported by The New York Times, with New York Magazine as a proud partner providing tech, editorial, design, and distribution support. The digital organization will be called The City (@TheCityNY), and its mandate will be to fill the gap created by the closing and...