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What happens when politicians can get their message out without the press.
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Where the wind is blowing the media industry and habits of news consumption.

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Visions of 2050

We asked prominent media figures to read the present—and try to predict the future.
By Carolina Abbott Galvão, Riddhi Setty

Locally Sourced Chum

The AI widgets taking over news sites and extracting our data.
By Lucy Schiller

The SLAPP Problem Is Worse Than We Thought 

As Donald Trump tests the limits of anti-press litigation, a new initiative aims to document the wave of nuisance suits.
By Liam Scott

Brazil’s ‘Netflix of the Right’ Lands in Miami

Bolsonaro is out, Trump is in, and Brasil Paralelo, a production company, is moving into the United States as Big Picture Originals.
By Carolina Abbott Galvão

Writing Her Way Out

With American Canto, Olivia Nuzzi puts herself back in the headlines—perhaps not in the way she intended.
By Carolina Abbott Galvão

Politics

Survival Guide

How to keep your head above water as Trump floods the zone.

How Students Are Trying to Save Local News

Across the country, university programs are filling gaps in the coverage.
By Riddhi Setty, Carolina Abbott Galvão

The Vanquishing of Military.com

Former staffers say a new owner dealt the respected publication a death blow when service members and veterans needed it most.
By Liam Scott

The Why and How of the Border

A group of veteran journalists cover “the backdrop for national politics and rhetoric.” 
By Lucy Schiller

Partying at Mar-a-Lago with the New MAGA Media Stars

While major news outlets obsessed over the anticipated release of the Epstein files, Trump-friendly news influencers celebrated how far they’ve come.
By Amos Barshad

Yes! You There in the Front, in the Red Hat!

While veteran national security reporters can’t get their calls answered, members of the new, MAGA-friendly press corps have a hotline to the Department of War.
By Ivan L. Nagy

International

The Story of Gaza

Journalism confronts a crisis—Israeli attacks, starving children, hostages, mass death—that won’t let up.

The Nation’s Longest Ongoing Strike Is Over—but the Battle Isn’t

Journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette are ready to return to work.
By Riddhi Setty

Visualizing Trans Coverage

A new tool, the Trans News Initiative, draws from data to reveal patterns and proportions.
By Carolina Abbott Galvão

The Tragic Loss of Teen Vogue

Condé Nast folded a beloved magazine that treated youth and feminism as political topics, not trends.
By Sarah Leonard

Biased, Boring Liars

More than three-quarters of teens surveyed have negative views of the press, a new study finds.
By Carolina Abbott Galvão

Viktor Orbán’s Hail Mary 

I was editor in chief of Hungary’s most-read independent daily until a pro-government media network bought the newspaper. It’s the fifth time in thirty years that politics has cost me my job—and it’s all about Orbán holding on to power.
By Iván Zsolt Nagy

Synthetic Media

Artificial Intelligence

Productivity, parlor tricks, and persuading people that the truth still matters.

One Battle After Another

On university campuses, student papers are fighting their own administrations—and sometimes the government—for the right to report.
By Carolina Abbott Galvão, Riddhi Setty

Reporting from Inside the Amazon

A new generation of journalists emerges from the rainforest, just in time for COP30.
By Adriana Carranca

RFK Jr. and the Health of Print

A nostalgia trip down County Highway.
By Lucy Schiller

X Is Using AI Fact-Checkers 

Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platform’s “Community Notes.”
By C.J. Robinson

Margaret Sullivan Takes a New Look at Journalism Ethics

The Columbia professor talks about her new series about how the challenges facing journalists have evolved with the times.
By Josh Hersh

Standards and Practices

A New Look at Journalism Ethics

Our series in collaboration with the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security.

How a Beloved Soccer Team’s TV Channel Got Red-Pilled

Real Madrid TV has indulged in outlandish theories and populist motifs to draw in audiences: “It’s the currency of our age.”
By Amos Barshad

Sound Crew

Signal Hill, a new audio magazine, embraces the weird.
By Carolina Abbott Galvão

Brendan Carr’s Deregulation Blitz Is a Disaster for TV News

The FCC chairman is clearing the way for Trump and corporate broadcasters to control the airwaves.
By Kyle Paoletta

The British Broadcaster Is Coming

The BBC is making a play in the US. Can it find a market?
By Joel Simon

NY1’s Errol Louis Takes the Stage

“The rest of the world is tuning in,” he said, of moderating a mayoral debate. “But in the end, it’s not that different from when I used to do city council debates in a church basement.”
By Amos Barshad

The Pentagon Press Corps Is Gone

As reporters for major news outlets turn in their government-issued press badges rather than accept new restrictions, some argue that the best military journalism is yet to come.
By Ivan L. Nagy

Postal Service Delays Are Making the Already Tight Newspaper Business Even Harder

Subscribers report delays of as long as two months.
By Riddhi Setty

Chicago’s Block Club Is Ready for ICE

The independent digital startup has been on the ground covering ICE’s surge and the attacks on journalists.
By Josh Hersh

Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Notice a Troubling Change

In a new survey from the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association, 85 percent of respondents say their reporting has been held to a “higher standard of neutrality.”
By Carolina Abbott Galvão

Student Journalism Is Fraught, Too

The dispute over plans for MediaFest, the nation’s largest conference of student journalists, reflects the polarization of the news industry that awaits them.
By Carolina Abbott Galvão

Remembering

Lessons Learned (Or Not)

Have journalists gotten better at covering Trump?

The Pentagon Doubles Down on Muzzling Reporters

Members of the press corps covering the Department of Defense say guidelines, newly revised, remain unsignable.
By Ivan L. Nagy

How Anti-Cybercrime Laws Are Being Weaponized to Repress Journalism

Across the world, well-meaning laws intended to reduce online fraud and other scourges of the internet are being put to a very different use.
By Nalova Akua

Too Small to Mess With

Against the precipitous backdrop of funding cuts to public media, low-power radio emerges as a lesser-known source of inspiration.
By Lucy Schiller

A Tipping Point at CBS News

Bari Weiss has officially been announced as the editor in chief of CBS News. “She’s not a reporter; she’s never been in the field,” a 60 Minutes producer told Adam Piore for a recent profile of CBS. “Talk about controversies.”
By Adam Piore

Scenes from Immigration Court in New York’s Federal Plaza

Till Eckert spent two weeks reporting from the twelfth-floor hallways, where ICE agents have had charged encounters with immigrants and reporters.
By Riddhi Setty

Reboot

Transformations

How technology is changing journalism.

On Trial for Journalism in Kentucky

Two months after their arrests while covering a protest, a pair of local reporters face criminal charges.
By Liam Scott

A New Gaza Rage Machine—with Polish Origins

A site called Visegrád 24 rode the waves of military conflicts and social media angst to become a household name on X. Its new project, Middle East 24, is aiming to do the same.
By Ivan L. Nagy

A Risk Assessment of America Right Now

Security experts at several news organizations say they are increasingly concerned about the risk of violence.
By Joel Simon

Local ABC Affiliates Are Getting Slammed

Brendan Carr promised power to community stations. But it’s their corporate owners who make the big decisions—while workers take the heat.
By Carolina Abbott Galvão, Riddhi Setty

ICE May Be Breaking the Law to Stonewall Reporters

Nearly two dozen reporters and other Freedom of Information Act requesters say they are getting the brush-off.
By Dave Levinthal
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