Janine Zacharia
Teach journalism at Stanford. Former Mideast reporter for Washington Post et al.
- Images from packed Palo Alto #NoKings march and rallies earlier today.
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- We published my Stanford Foreign Correspondence Class group project-Coping with Cuts: Portraits of Loss after the U.S. Ceases Aid Operations Around the Globe. A sad but necessary sampling of endless stories of hardship, loss, and U.S. betrayal. Kudos, students. peninsulapress.com/2025/06/06/c...
- “The N.I.H.’s multiyear investment in advanced vaccine technologies shouldn’t be abandoned on a whim like this,” he said. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...
- “It’s an incredible waste of taxpayer dollars to interrupt research,” said Rice...“For my trial, more than $2 million has been spent on this incredibly complex study. It’s so incredibly wasteful.” www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
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- Pope Leo, in his brief tenure, has advocated for a free press more than any member of Congress. "The suffering of these imprisoned journalists challenges the conscience of nations...calling on all of us to safeguard the precious gift of free speech and of the press. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
- Criticism of Trump Was Removed From Documentary on Public Television www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/a...
- Many important points in this Steven Pinker piece. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...
- "The public must have broad and undistorted access to reliable information about the government’s decisions and policies. The press must be free to report independently and critically without fear of official reprisal." knightcolumbia.org/documents/dm...
- Useful exploration of how A.I. tools helped with deep, accountability reporting and visualizations. www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/how-...
- Taking part in this discussion at Stanford shortly. To be honest, from what I'm seeking as I give talks to different age groups, I'm less worried about the young people than the older folks. events.stanford.edu/event/stanfo...
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- Do This: Spotting and Stopping Disinformation redwine.blue/do-this-spot...
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- Speaking to @redwineblueusa.bsky.social May 22 about being a smart news consumer in our era of noise. "Red Wine and Blue is a national community of over half a million diverse suburban women working together to defeat extremism, one friend at a time." secure.everyaction.com/DInYU2SSR0mw... i
- Looking forward to moderating this discussion with @kyla.bsky.social @mattkiser.bsky.social and @peterhamby.bsky.social at Stanford today. https:events.stanford.edu/event/2025-rebele-symposium-the-newsinfluencers-what-legacy-media-andonline-news-content-creators-can-learn-from-each-other
- Reposted by Janine ZachariaEven established authoritarian regimes consider arresting defiant judges an extreme tactic—a serious escalation usually reserved for after one-party rule is firmly entrenched. Seeing a judge arrested in the US today should alarm everyone who values democratic governance. This cannot be allowed. 🧵
- Correct. -- Pull the Plug on the White House Correspondents Dinner open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
- Quite an investigation by @elissamio.bsky.social of @devex.com. “José is not the expert on feeding people in disasters...But if he says do it this way, even if general wisdom says do it the other, people are going to do it. And that creates dangerous situations.” www.devex.com/news/what-la...
- "Home-growns are next."
- Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.” x.com/nayibbukele/...
- Dear White House Reporters: WTF? open.substack.com/pub/convulsi...
- “Today is a celebration for my colleagues at RT, Sputnik...This is an awesome decision,” said Margarita Simonyan, RT’s chief editor. The Global Times...a Chinese Communist party mouthpiece, published an editorial cheering on the decision." reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/trump-s...
- Spotted on Tesla in heart of Silicon Valley.
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- Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
- Read the Letter to the Chairman of Paul Weiss www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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- Reposted by Janine ZachariaIt may be breaking, but @booker.senate.gov's voice has never been more powerful. Thank you, my friend, for speaking out for freedom, justice, and the country we love.
- Please read and share this incredible piece by our @stanfordjournalism.bsky.social alumna Erin Edwards, who flew combat helicopter missions in the Middle East as a Navy pilot. Anytime anyone tries to defend Signalchat just send them this. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
- "Since the outset of Trump’s entrance into politics, Republicans have become more and more comfortable with embracing authoritarian theatrics and cruelty as political branding." www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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- Ken Fireman writes incredibly thoughtful pieces about our current moment. -- Of malice and MAGA open.substack.com/pub/liticism...
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- Co-bylined by our @stanfordjournalism.bsky.social alumna Sarah Raza. apnews.com/article/noem... Kristi Noem refused to say who financed some of her travel. It was taxpayers who were on the hook
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- Re-upping our Stanford alumna Natasha Jessen-Petersen's highly relevant piece on Thule Air Base (renamed Pituffik Space Base) where the Vances visited today and insulted Denmark. Everything you want to know about this base is here. insideclimatenews.org/news/2602202...
- "She appears in a fitted long-sleeve tee...A gold Rolex Daytona—worth more than some of these men will make in their entire lives—sits proudly on her dainty wrist...Then she pauses in front of a cage where human beings have been posed...so that she can speak...in front of a powerful visual."
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- "What evidence, exactly? Is it sufficient to condemn a man to be locked up for at least a year in a foreign prison famous for human right abuses? The public, and the courts, may never learn."
- "Will news organizations perhaps stop using the term 'climate change' altogether, now that Trump has had it removed from many government websites? Such self-censorship would not only mislead the public but betray journalism’s civic responsibility to hold power accountable."
- Very good piece. Need to push back on these Trump administraiton attacks. Make counterarguments everywhere and often. -- Trump’s Atrocious War on Higher Ed Demands an Aggressive Response newrepublic.com/article/1932... via @newrepublic.com
- Such good reporting and writing. Hesgeth "sought refuge in a semantic argument." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...
- Bad framing, @latimes.com. Lead with what's true about this, not false spin. Can't believe news orgs still don't understand this. Don't parrot propaganda. You can get what Trump said in the story but JFC don't put the BS in the headline and lede. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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- "Please remember this was a conversation that included the full name of an active CIA officer; precise information about human targets, weapons, and attack timing...as well as damage assessments in real time." www.niemanlab.org/2025/03/jeff...
- Fox News on-air analyst Hegseth on Clinton's use of a private server: “Any security professional, military, government or otherwise, would be fired on the spot for this type of conduct and criminally prosecuted for being so reckless with this kind of information." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
- "These are disappearing communications. They won’t be in the National Archives. Future administrations won’t know what happened. There also won’t be any records to determine whether crimes were committed." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signa...
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- But her emails. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
- This is a critical interview with @larrydiamond.bsky.social that includes steps we need to take to "stop the madness." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-trick-...
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- Reposted by Janine ZachariaA friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
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- "Covering politics is cheap and fast for news organizations, and covering government is really hard and time-consuming. And yet the most important stories about how our future will unfold are usually buried in the ways government is working—or not." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/who-is-gov...
- The president “is a virtuoso and his musical choices represent a brilliant palette of vibrant colors when others often paint in pale pastels...there is nobody more uniquely qualified to bring this country, and its rich history of the arts, back to prominence.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/a...
