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Carpenter Media’s Ominous Takeover of Local News

In just a few years, a publisher based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has become the country’s fourth-largest newspaper operator. Some reporters wonder if it isn’t the cruelest.
By Lois Parshley

The NPR and Colorado Stations That Took Trump to Court

“It isn’t just an affront to localism. It’s an attempt to reengineer thought.”
By Lucy Schiller

A Newsroom in Exile Imagines a Free Kurdish Press

The Amargi, a digital outlet based in Germany, takes the lead on Kurdish news.
By Seyma Bayram

‘A Trauma That You Carry’

An unprecedented attack on press freedom at the Washington Post.
By Riddhi Setty

Nothing Is Secure

The home of Hannah Natanson, a Washington Post reporter, was searched by the FBI. Her devices were seized. Runa Sandvik, whose life’s work is protecting journalists’ digital security, assesses the damage—and what news organizations need to know.
By Maddy Crowell

The Journalism 2050 Issue

Forecasting

Where the wind is blowing the media industry and habits of news consumption.

For Venezuelan Journalists, It’s Like Maduro Never Left

“If you have contacts or sensitive information that you’re not supposed to have, you could be thrown in jail.”
By Carolina Abbott Galvão, Ivan L. Nagy

Women’s Glossies Go MAGA

The conservative magazines pulling women into right-wing politics through lifestyle content.
By Carolina Abbott Galvão

Unaffiliated

Some TV news stations are breaking their national network affiliations, and leaning into local programming.
By Amos Barshad

And That’s the Way It Is 

At CBS News, the suppression of critical reporting and the promotion of appeasement reveal Bari Weiss’s true colors.
By Jem Bartholomew

Reporting While Trans

A dozen journalists on the risks of working in the news industry—and how to ensure their safety.
By H Conley

Politics

Survival Guide

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

The Law-and-Order Influencer

Turning Point USA’s Savanah Hernandez on her journalistic position.
By Amos Barshad

What the Dissolution of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Means

The parent organization of NPR and PBS, already defunded, is shutting down—and claims that’s for the best. But there are dangers ahead.
By Ivan L. Nagy

Can Two Detroit Papers Survive a Split?

The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News had the last joint operating agreement in the country. It just expired.
By Riddhi Setty

When to Publish News of War

Trump’s military attack on Venezuela was a social media spectacle. What made the Times and the Post bury the scoop?
By Jem Bartholomew

The Battle for Press Freedom in the Streets

New York media outlets are being proactive about defending their rights as they anticipate the deployment of federal law enforcement.
By Joel Simon

International

The Story of Gaza

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

What We’re Watching

CJR staff on stories to look out for in 2026.
By The Editors

‘I’ll Hear About It Eventually’

So-called news avoiders aren’t really skipping out on the news. They have alternative, often indirect sources of information.
By Mary Retta

How Project 2025 Kneecapped the US Press

The Heritage Foundation’s road map for a conservative presidency proposed sweeping media reforms. Trump carried out most of them—and he has three years left.
By Ivan L. Nagy

The Idiot

Lex Fridman’s expansive, compelling, anti-journalistic podcast style.
By Maddy Crowell

Bias Busters

The busy work of cataloguing news in the hope of saving humanity from our conspiratorial online disinformation hell.
By Amos Barshad

Synthetic Media

Artificial Intelligence

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

Transparency Didn’t Delay Justice for R. Kelly or Jeffrey Epstein. Prosecutors Did.

The systems that should have protected Epstein’s victims failed time and again. For those aiming to keep the details secret, the Kelly case offered a playbook.
By Jim DeRogatis, Seth Stern

Recipe Book

What the crisis for press freedom in Gaza portends.
By Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

The O.G. News Influencer

A recent lawsuit tested whether Perez Hilton is a journalist. Reporters and influencers should be equally concerned with the legal answer to that question.
By Joel Simon

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

Standards and Practices

A New Look at Journalism Ethics

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

Hong Kong’s Jimmy Lai Is Convicted of National Security Charges 

The former publisher of a pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, is expected to spend the rest of his life in prison.
By Liam Scott

The Direct-to-Consumer Playbook

What happens when politicians can get their message out without the press.
By Kyle Paoletta

Reporting with One Hand Tied

A new report documents a hostile environment for US journalists this year, with 32 arrests and 170 assaults.
By Jem Bartholomew

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

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

Remembering

Lessons Learned (Or Not)

Have journalists gotten better at covering Trump?

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

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

Reboot

Transformations

How technology is changing journalism.

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

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
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Corridor of Mirrors

The Democratic Convention in Chicago, in August 1968, was surrounded by protesters and made bloody by police violence. Whiteside was on the scene, following along with CBS News.
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