Adam H. Johnson
Adam H. Johnson
Host, The Appeal podcast. Media analyst at FAIR.org and host of the Citations Needed podcast.
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Host, The Appeal podcast. Media analyst at FAIR.org and host of the Citations Needed podcast.
With Jordan Smith and Liliana Segura of The Intercept.
Adam H. Johnson Feb 13, 2020
In two articles, the Times asserts a ‘spike’ in crime since the passage of bail reform in New York, an increase that the articles themselves note they can’t prove.
Adam H. Johnson Feb 10, 2020
With journalist Roxanna Asgarian.
Adam H. Johnson Feb 06, 2020
Leading with housing status for homeless people is a common trope in the news reporting business and one in urgent need of re-examining.
Adam H. Johnson Jan 31, 2020
A wave of sensationalist press is not just coming from New York City, but also from county sheriff and city police departments frustrated by bail reform that they claim is ‘too broad.’
Adam H. Johnson Jan 27, 2020
With Appeal staff reporter Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg.
Adam H. Johnson Jan 23, 2020
There’s a cynical local-to-national news pipeline designed to mock the powerless under the guise of “odd” news stories.
Adam H. Johnson Jan 16, 2020
With Taylor Elizabeth Eldridge, a Type Investigations Ida B. Wells Fellow and Appeal contributor.
Many liberals support reform in theory. But when unpopular decisions need to be made, it’s back to the 1990s “Tough on Crime” playbook.
Adam H. Johnson Jan 09, 2020
Sensational headlines may score short-term partisan points, but long term they contribute to a toxic culture of Willie Hortonism.
Adam H. Johnson Dec 20, 2019
With Appeal contributor Zachary Siegel, a journalism fellow at Northeastern University Law School’s Health in Justice Action Lab, and Lev Facher of STAT News.
Adam H. Johnson Dec 12, 2019
With Daniel Harawa, assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.
Adam H. Johnson Dec 05, 2019
With Danielle Sered of Common Justice
Adam H. Johnson Nov 21, 2019
With Appeal staff reporter Lauren Gill
Adam H. Johnson Nov 14, 2019
A close examination of a poll backed by a business group reveals loaded questions, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and the shortchanging of very real privacy concerns.
Adam H. Johnson Nov 07, 2019
With Civil Rights Corps founder Alec Karakatsanis
With Appeal contributors Julia Rock and Harry August
Adam H. Johnson Oct 31, 2019
With journalist Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard
Adam H. Johnson Oct 24, 2019
The New York Post used a tragedy to target bail reform activists, rather than point to the challenges of a failed mental health system and poverty.
Adam H. Johnson Oct 21, 2019
The Charlotte Observer built a narrative on gun crime that relies almost exclusively on police and prosecutors, ignores the violence of incarceration, and offers zero non-carceral solutions.
Adam H. Johnson Oct 11, 2019
With Appeal staff reporter Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
Adam H. Johnson Oct 03, 2019
WJLA’s Kevin Lewis selectively reports on immigrants arrested for sex crimes to paint a misleading picture of violence in Montgomery County.
Adam H. Johnson Oct 01, 2019
With Miriam Mack and Elizabeth Tuttle Newman of The Bronx Defenders
Adam H. Johnson Sep 26, 2019
With Chesa Boudin, candidate for San Francisco district attorney
Adam H. Johnson Sep 19, 2019
In a rare case of local media nuance, a Boston TV news station provided a humane and health-focused segment on safe drug use.
Adam H. Johnson Sep 17, 2019
A Pittsburgh public radio piece lacked critical reporting about the many problems with jailing children in adult facilities.
Adam H. Johnson Sep 13, 2019
With Appeal contributor Guy Hamilton-Smith and Elizabeth Letourneau of the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Adam H. Johnson Sep 12, 2019
Kansas City news outlets called scores of people ‘violent criminals’ based solely on the word of police and the federal government.
Adam H. Johnson Sep 03, 2019
How high or low bond is isn’t a measure of how severe the state considers a crime.
Adam H. Johnson Aug 28, 2019
Murder rates are at an all-time low in Brooklyn, but one would hardly know it reading the New York Times.
Adam H. Johnson Aug 16, 2019
The New York Times’s coverage of the one-off case of a 77-year-old man omits key facts about how older adults are treated by our punitive legal system.
Adam H. Johnson Aug 09, 2019
Dozens of reports about an indigent man in Bradenton, Florida, showed the cruel excesses of local news’s homelessness coverage.
Adam H. Johnson Jul 31, 2019
The backlash is underway against a recent wave of prosecutors who champion criminal justice reform. Here are some methods of attack.
Adam H. Johnson Jul 19, 2019
With Appeal contributor Maia Szalavitz
Adam H. Johnson Jul 18, 2019
Outlets ran over 200 articles covering the vandalism. The outsize attention will likely damage young lives.
Adam H. Johnson Jul 11, 2019
With Appeal reporter Josh Vaughn
ABC News claims anti-police violence is on the rise but offers no data.
Adam H. Johnson Jul 02, 2019
Reality shows like ‘The First 48,’ ‘Live PD,’ and ‘Cops’ are interfering in legal cases, exploiting people of color, and threatening lives.
Adam H. Johnson Jun 24, 2019
With Appeal contributors Amir H. Ali and Emily Clark of the MacArthur Justice Center
Adam H. Johnson Jun 20, 2019
With Jailhouse Lawyers Speak spokesperson and Right 2 Vote national coordinator Amani Sawari
Adam H. Johnson Jun 13, 2019
The sensationalist coverage of a handful of fights highlights local media’s misplaced priorities.
Adam H. Johnson Jun 07, 2019
With Appeal contributor Mike Hayes
Adam H. Johnson Jun 06, 2019
With Caroline Isaacs of the American Friends Service Committee
Adam H. Johnson May 30, 2019
With City University of New York law professor Babe Howell
Adam H. Johnson May 23, 2019
With Chicago activist Celia Colón
Adam H. Johnson May 16, 2019
With Appeal contributor Meg O’Connor
Adam H. Johnson May 02, 2019
With Leo Beletsky, Appeal contributor and Associate Professor of Law and Health Sciences at Northeastern University.
Adam H. Johnson Apr 25, 2019
With Appeal contributor Amelia McDonell-Parry
Adam H. Johnson Apr 18, 2019
With Appeal contributor Jon Campbell
Adam H. Johnson Apr 11, 2019
With Hannah Sassaman and Matt Henry
Adam H. Johnson Apr 04, 2019
With Appeal senior staff reporter Aaron Morrison
Adam H. Johnson Mar 14, 2019
With Appeal staff reporter Kira Lerner
Adam H. Johnson Mar 07, 2019
With Appeal contributor Ko Bragg
Adam H. Johnson Feb 28, 2019
With Appeal contributor Keri Blakinger
Adam H. Johnson Feb 21, 2019
With Appeal contributor Darwin BondGraham
Adam H. Johnson Feb 14, 2019
With Appeal contributor Raina Lipsitz
Adam H. Johnson Feb 07, 2019
With Craig Cesal and Amy Ralston Povah
Adam H. Johnson Jan 24, 2019
With Appeal contributors Clarissa Sosin and Daryl Khan.
Adam H. Johnson Jan 17, 2019
With Appeal contributor Jessica Pishko.
Adam H. Johnson Jan 10, 2019
With Appeal senior reporter Debbie Nathan.
Adam H. Johnson Dec 13, 2018
With Angela J. Davis, Appeal contributor and professor of law at American University's Washington College of Law.
Adam H. Johnson Dec 06, 2018
With Jessica Brand, Legal Director at The Justice Collaborative and Appeal contributor.
Adam H. Johnson Nov 29, 2018
With Appeal senior staff reporter, and co-host of the Justice in America podcast, Josie Duffy Rice.
Adam H. Johnson Nov 15, 2018
With Appeal writer Aviva Stahl and trans rights activist Ceyenne Doroshow.
Adam H. Johnson Nov 08, 2018
With Mercedes Montagnes of the Promise of Justice Initiative.
Adam H. Johnson Nov 01, 2018
With Appeal staff reporter Raven Rakia.
Adam H. Johnson Oct 25, 2018
With writer Kelly Hayes.
Adam H. Johnson Oct 11, 2018
With Appeal contributor Katie Rose Quandt.
Adam H. Johnson Oct 04, 2018
With Appeal staff reporter George Joseph.
Adam H. Johnson Sep 27, 2018
With Dominique Walker of the ACLU, Reverend Edwin Robinson of Faith in Texas, and Joe Estelle of Texas Organizing Project.
Adam H. Johnson Sep 20, 2018
With activist and scholar Danny Murillo.
Adam H. Johnson Sep 13, 2018
With Appeal contributor Zoé Samudzi.
Adam H. Johnson Sep 06, 2018
With journalist Kira Lerner.
Adam H. Johnson Aug 16, 2018
With journalist Jessica Pishko.
Adam H. Johnson Aug 09, 2018
With journalist Roxanna Asgarian.
Adam H. Johnson Aug 02, 2018
With journalist Bryce Covert.
Adam H. Johnson Jul 26, 2018
With Appeal reporter Max Rivlin-Nadler.
Adam H. Johnson Jul 19, 2018
With William C. Anderson, journalist and co-author of As Black As Resistance.
Adam H. Johnson Jul 12, 2018
With journalist Victoria Law.
Adam H. Johnson Jun 28, 2018
With Appeal staff reporter George Joseph.
Adam H. Johnson Jun 21, 2018
With journalists Raven Rakia and Ashoka Jegroo.
Adam H. Johnson Jun 15, 2018
Guest Zachary A. Siegel is a journalist covering the opioid crisis.
Adam H. Johnson Jun 07, 2018
Our debut episodes feature Josie Duffy Rice on prosecutors and Melissa Gira Grant on criminalizing sex work.
Adam H. Johnson May 31, 2018
With Melissa Gira Grant, senior staff reporter at The Appeal.
With Josie Duffy Rice, senior staff reporter at The Appeal.