The author of a viral Medium post explains how she was compelled to write it — When Jennifer Barnett’s explosive Medium post about newsroom sexism, “I Left My Career in Prestige Media Because of the Shitty Men in Charge and They Are Still In Charge and Still Fucking Up,” came across my morning Medium recommendations, I devoured it while still lying in bed, all 3,559 words…

This is such a useful and smart way to think of it, thank you. One thing I wonder though, is whether that negativity bias sometimes—in moderation!—stops us from becoming assholes who are overconfident and too full of ourselves.

If you’d told me last February that I’d be spending the next 10 months almost entirely inside; that my children’s schooling would be catastrophically disrupted; that I wouldn’t be able to hug my elderly dad, go for a drink with a friend, or sit in a room with my co-workers……

The writer Maya Kosoff announced this intention on Medium after finding the usually enjoyable process of cooking a Thanksgiving feast to be kind of a slog this year, on the…

In normal years, my favorite advice for Thanksgiving morning comes from the food and culture writer Annaliese Griffin: Take one thing off your menu. She means the extra pumpkin pie or that new Brussels sprouts salad recipe you clipped last week, that—seriously!—nobody will miss. But this year, maybe the thing…

Do you know what’s for dinner Wednesday night? My colleague Cari Nazeer asked that question in a Forge Daily Tip this past Saturday, on the last weekend before Election Day. …

“I Miss Big, Wet, Embarrassing Kisses From My Father,” John DeVore wrote yesterday on his Medium site, Humungus. I Miss Big, Wet, Embarrassing Kisses From My Father The tweet shaming Joe Biden for embracing his son Hunter is a mini-portrait of toxic masculinitymedium.com It was a one-day-later reflection on a truly awful tweet—one that is (thankfully) already fading into the morass of toxicity that this election cycle has unleashed. …

‘Don’t you have enough?’ an ABC executive asked the legendary writer-producer-showrunner Shonda Rhimes — It might sound petty. The legendary writer-producer-showrunner Shonda Rhimes was making tens of millions, and her prime-time shows — Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away With Murder — were blockbuster successes, reviving the fortunes of her parent network, ABC. Sure, Rhimes was tiring of the constant battles with…

Examine your article with a series of ‘lenses’ to ensure you have the crispest, cleanest copy — For the launch of Creators Hub, Indrani Sen delivers a self-editing checklist she’s used to fortify her copy for 10+ years. In newsrooms, editors often talk about the text that writers file using a hygiene metaphor: “Clean” copy is grammatically correct, solidly written, and generally needs only light editing to…