I’ve read a few Quanta articles about topics in pure math, and they did about as good of a job as one could reasonably expect. E.g. they interviewed roughly the

I’ve read a few Quanta articles about topics in pure math, and they did about as good of a job as one could reasonably expect. E.g. they interviewed roughly the same people I would have chosen, and the author clearly spent a great deal of time trying to make the work accessible without saying anything untrue or misleading. Of course, there’s a certain amount of hype that tends to be a matter of opinion. Here’s an example close to my heart: https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-find-polynomial-building-blocks-hilbert-sought-20210525/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-find-polynomia...