Topic: News Media
That Time Ambassador David Cohen Agreed to Chair the Citizen’s Board
The civic giant and ubiquitous local doer advised Mayor Ed Rendell and Comcast’s Brian Roberts before becoming President Biden’s Ambassador to Canada. Here's why he’s made The Citizen his first new role since returning to Philly
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Isaac Saul Wants To UnTangle Your News
The South Philly journalist reaches 400,000 readers everyday with Tangle’s blend of media roundup, analysis and self-reflection. His goal? To help Americans see past their own biases
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Ali Velshi Explains Why Conspiracists Are Turning On Trump
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member dissects the MAGA monster Trump created and how it's turned on him in the wake of the Epstein Files debacle
By Ali Velshi
The Long Fight to Cancel Public Broadcasting
Trump and the GOP finished the job Nixon started, but history teaches the value of fair, independent journalism
By David M. Stone
Chuck Stone, Citizen of the World
The Daily News’ first Black columnist, a civic giant, won a posthumous Pulitzer citation this week. A Philly writer remembers his lifesaving work — and his kindness
By Thomas Devaney
Hey Philly, Let’s Tell Bezos to Suck It
The Citizen is intensely hyperlocal. But attacks on Enlightenment values know no borders. Here, a way to stand against media surrender and get clearer on national affairs without regard to ideology
By Larry Platt
Ali Velshi on Burying Ukrainian Manuscripts to Keep them from Russian Hands
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with author and Journalist Yaroslav Trofimov to discuss how Ukrainian literature is preserving the nation's history — and its future
By Ali Velshi
Ali Velshi Asks Can Meta Ever Be Trusted?
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member speaks with two third-party fact-checkers formerly working with Meta about the real threats facing social media in this new era.
By Ali Velshi
Velshi Guest Host Charles Coleman Jr. and Nikole Hannah-Jones on the Free Press
Guest host Charles Coleman Jr. sits down with 1619 Project author Nikole Hannah-Jones to discuss the threat the new administration represents to a free press — and the public
By Ali Velshi
Suck it Musk?
Why The Citizen is not abandoning X despite — actually, because of — the divisiveness and disinformation that abounds
By Olivia Kram