The PEN Pod: On the Small Things We Cannot See That Change Our Lives with Ed Yong
“As journalists, it is our responsibility to resist those easy dichotomies and to find all the missing nuance in the middle that is important, but is also being neglected.“ More
Works of Justice Podcast: George T. Wilkerson on Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row
Prison and Justice Writing Program intern Kate Cammell speaks with George Wilkerson about his writing in Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row. More
The PEN Pod: How We Write Our Survival with Lisa Ko
“Even when the future does feel uncertain, like right now, it feels important to. . . imagine a future for ourselves as well as our characters.” More
The PEN Pod: On The Importance of Centering Marginalized Narratives with Jaquira Díaz
“I would hope that they would find in my story that my story was not unique, that so many of us go through this suffering in silence.” More
The PEN Pod: Putting Tech Under the Microscope with Ainissa Ramirez
“Since so many things are being put underneath the microscope, I hope that technology, too, will be put there.” More
White House Aversion to Press Infects CDC
"The running battle between the Trump White House and U.S. international public broadcasting, which apparently displeases the president with its professional approach to journalism, has also infected the CDC." More
The PEN Pod: What It Means to Be Essential with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
“Right now, we see. . . how human beings need to be afforded the full range of emotions, and how that is a right that we have, and people… More
The PEN Pod: On the Conversations that Help Us Heal with Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
“The Mountains Sing serves, I hope, as a memorial for the victims of the Great Hunger, to honor their suffering.” More
The PEN Pod: Tough Questions About a Critical Week with Suzanne Nossel
“It’s a very unsettling moment. . . we share a sense of alarm at the naked racism and brutality that people, and particularly Black Americans, have experienced.” More
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PEN America applauds @RonWyden for his letter condemning the possibility that @USAGMgov may not renew their foreign journalists' visas. Read more in our statement: https://bit.ly/2XG5QLB.
NEW: Governments and individuals should be wary of apps that may be collecting personal data. But effectively blocking TikTok and WeChat is an overly blunt approach to a complex problem. Our statement: https://bit.ly/3gGGwwG
The Wire has documented close to 15 instances where criminal cases were registered against journalists from different print media, TV channels and online portals that wrote about COVID-19 since March. https://bit.ly/30BIBnX