Emily Russell

Journalist

United States

I am a Delacorte Magazine Fellow with the Columbia Journalism Review and a graduate of Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism.

Formerly, I was an associate producer at Long Story Short Media in Washington, D.C., producing short-form videos and long-form investigative podcasts. I earned my bachelor's degree in Journalism from American University.

Portfolio
Columbia Journalism Review
04/17/2023
Hearts and Minds Media

For decades, Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty have broadcast into countries all over, in dozens of languages. Yet in some places where the United States has invested the mostsoft power, authoritarianism has only gotten stronger-and journalists remain at risk. That may be especially true in Afghanistan since the Taliban's takeover.

Teen Vogue
11/30/2021
Inner-City Bloom Brings Healing to Formerly Incarcerated Young People

Later in the afternoon, the tone shifted as the group parsed through trauma. Sena introduced Kintsugi, the ancient Japanese art of piecing broken pottery back together and emphasizing the cracks with gold. "This is a symbolic representation of the last time you felt whole," Sena says, handing out pottery to the group.

Columbia Journalism Review
10/21/2022
Nic Haque on Climate Change: 'I became a journalist because of this'

CJR · Nic Haque on Climate Change: 'I became a journalist because of this' Just as Europeans prepare for winter amid rising gas prices-calling upon their old ties to gas-rich African countries-a colonial-era island off the coast of Senegal erodes into the rising sea. Both these stories, discussed on this week's Kicker with Nic [...]

Columbia Journalism Review
03/15/2023
Q&A: Victor Pickard on the layoffs at NPR, and how to better support public and local media

Recently, NPR announced that it would lay off ten percent of its staff and eliminate vacant positions to compensate for an estimated thirty-million-dollar shortfall in revenue. John Lansing, the CEO, blamed declining corporate sponsorships and advertising income. That same month, New York Public Radio canceled one of its longest-running news shows, The Takeaway, citing audience [...]

Columbia Journalism Review
Objectivity wars, and the future of media trust

In an interview last fall, journalism scholar Jay Rosen referred to journalistic objectivity as the surface upon which enemies of the press wield their war against the truth. "Every time you are shown not to be behaving objectively, you are kind of in violation of your code, and you can be brought down because you're [...]

Columbia Journalism Review
02/01/2023
Q&A: Rana Foroohar on the 'silences' in economics coverage

Recently, Kyle Pope, CJR's editor and publisher, wrote in this newsletter that "journalism has a Davos problem." The World Economic Forum, which brings the world's business and political elites-and no few journalists-to Davos every year, and which Pope once attended himself, "captures in microcosm how the press miscovers the rich, and the economy in general," [...]

Columbia Journalism Review
Q&A: Eric Holthaus on how meteorology can support journalism

Last week, as millions of Florida residents prepared for the landfall of Hurricane Ian, Eric Holthaus, a Minnesota-based meteorologist and journalist, prepared his staff of meteorologists and journalists at Currently-"a weather service for the climate emergency"-to cover the Category 4 storm. Currently is rooted in a memo, written by Holthaus and climate activist Sydney Ghazarian [...]