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Susie Banikarim

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journalist | laurels & darts column, CJR | “widely respected” & award-winning | signal: ssb.20
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Laurels and Darts: Agenda journalism.

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By Susie Banikarim
| Columbia Journalism Review Verified
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On Monday, Jeff Barker, who spent twenty-five years as a reporter at the Baltimore Sun, posted on X that he was resigning. “I was proud to have been there during a long period when our reporting followed the facts wherever they happened to lead,” he wrote. “I’m not saying anything readers can’t see for themselves, but The Sun has changed since its purchase by David Smith, executive chairman of the Sinclair Broadcast Group.
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‘America Knows Less About Itself at the Very Moment It Needs to Know the Truth’

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By Susie Banikarim
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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson established the Kerner Commission in response to widespread demonstrations over the treatment of Black Americans. The following year, the panel released a report, outlining systemic white racism across society—and sharply criticizing the press’s failure to cover the subject of race.
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TMZ Goes to Washington

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By Susie Banikarim
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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In April, frustrated by the Washington, DC, press corps’s myopia, Harvey Levin, the founder and executive producer of TMZ, sent in a team of his own: Charlie Cotton, a guy from Australia who was previously stationed at LAX to interview celebrities, and Jacob Wasserman, who most recently covered the Diddy trial in New York, were dispatched as co–managing editors.
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