John Nichols

John Nichols writes about politics for The Nation as its national-affairs correspondent, and hosts Next Left, The Nation’s podcast featuring interviews with rising progressive politicians. Nichols is also a contributing writer for The Progressive and In These Times and the associate editor of the Capital Times, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin.

November 1, 2013

John Nichols

The Rise of Establishment Reporting

To fend off a serious threat to their survival, major newspaper owners promoted a new sense of journalism, one that still dominates the news industry today.

July 1, 2002

John Nichols and Robert McChesney

On the Verge in Vermont

Good evening, I’m Congressman Bernie Sanders and I want to welcome you to what I believe is the first congressional town meeting ever organized to address the issue of corporate control of the media. Thus began the first of two public town meetings in late April 2002, where US Rep. Bernie Sanders (Vt.–Ind.) did what […]

What’s FAIR

FAIR is the national progressive media watchdog group, challenging corporate media bias, spin and misinformation. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. We expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, we believe that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information.

Contact

Support

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.