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(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) A couple of days ago, a conservative Catholic newsletter, The Pillar, published via Substack, scored quite the coup. Using commercially available information, the reporters claimed that the most powerful priest (that is, not a bishop) in the United States was engaged in an actively homosexual lifestyle. Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, former general secretary of the U.S. bishops’ conference, announced his resignation Tuesday, after The Pillar found evidence the priest engaged in serial sexual misconduct, while he held a critical oversight role in the Catholic Church�...

There's been an important new development in the Nikole Hannah-Jones story. According to the veteran journalist John Drescher, writing for a North Carolina website called The Assembly, a "mega-donor" to the University of North Carolina opposed hiring Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist who conceived of the 1619 Project and who's been denied…

The New York Times’ David Brooks problem has ratcheted up from “uh, oh” to “holy cow.” Craig Silverman and Ryan Mac of BuzzFeed News reported on Wednesday that Brooks, a prominent Times columnist, is getting paid for his work at Weave, a civic-engagement project that’s part of the Aspen Institute. Among Weave’s funders is Facebook. A week earlier, BuzzFeed reported that Brooks had written a post on Facebook’s blog singing the praises of Facebook Groups without letting his editors at the Times know about it. That was bad enough. But now that there’s money involved, the Times ...

Photo by Suzanne D. Williams on Unsplash Image by Ted Eytan licensed under Creative Commons. In the Jewish faith, children who have reached 13 are considered full members of the community, marking their coming of age with a bat or bar mitzvah. After 13 years, Greater Greater Washington too is going through a transition period, a time for us to stop and think hard about who we are and what we do. On the publication side of the organization (which is separate from our advocacy/policy team) we’ve been putting a lot of thought into what journalism means to us and how our work furthers our value...