An Interview With Aviva Chomsky, Professor and Immigration Activist
The Politic’s Keera Annamaneni and Aviva Chomsky discuss the history of immigration to the United States.
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Ali Velshi: Broadcast Journalist, Former Host on Al Jazeera America
Broadcast journalist Ali Velshi discusses the 2008 financial crisis, the presidential election, Al Jazeera America, as well as journalism in general.
An Interview with Henry Giroux, the McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest
“We need to reclaim public and higher education as a public good, as a democratic public sphere that is absolutely vital for educating students to be engaged and critical citizens. That should be as important as national defense.”
An Interview with Shani Hilton, Executive Editor at BuzzFeed News
“The thing about Buzzfeed that’s really cool is that we have a bunch of different identities – you can see that both in the types of people who work in the newsroom and the content we produce. We really try to reach people where they are. And that means that we have to maintain a lot of different identities at once.”
An Interview with George Pataki, Former Governor of New York
I believe that I am the best candidate because deep down I know that I can run this country well. It requires having a positive agenda that people can understand, and it requires making that agenda acceptable across party lines to enough Democrats so you can actually accomplish something.
An Interview with Andrew Flowers, Quantitative Editor at FiveThirtyEight
I definitely wanted to write for a popular audience, I just didn’t know it would be from the nitty-gritty world of journalism rather than the “Ivory Tower high-horse” position, so to speak. We like to say data journalism is social science on deadline. So I think I’ve kind of melded these two worlds.
An Interview with Thomas Edsall, Op-Ed Contributor for the New York Times
Polarization has changed the kinds of pressures on journalists to an extreme degree.
An Interview with Uri Friedman, Senior Editor at The Atlantic
Read this interview with Uri Friedman, who tells us about his experiences as Global Editor of The Atlantic. In this interview, Friedman discusses coverage of the Iran Deal, online journalism, and what it’s like to edit for a major publication.