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Future Forecasting

Introducing the Journalism 2050 Issue.
By Betsy Morais
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A Look Back at Covering Gaza for the Post

Since October 7, 2023, Miriam Berger has been on assignment in Jerusalem, covering Israel, Palestine, and war. A few weeks ago, she learned she and hundreds of colleagues were being laid off.
By Megan Greenwell

Blackout Iran

When the Trump administration launched a major attack on Iran, news organizations had to navigate a shaky environment for communications—and moral clarity.

By Jem Bartholomew, Ivan L. Nagy

A Cauldron of Ideas to Fight Misinformation

A new app combines peer-reviewed posts, crypto micropayments, AI, and blockchain technology to verify what’s going on in Ukraine.
By Riddhi Setty

The Drug War in Full View

A profile of El Mencho. Plus: An incredibly long State of the Union that no one will remember; history repeats, nastily, in Georgia.
By Susie Banikarim

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AI Versus Accuracy? We’re Willing to Make the Trade-Off.

When asking AI about the news, readers “know the answers they are getting are not perfect.” They keep asking anyway.
By Klaudia Jaźwińska, Aisvarya Chandrasekar

Taking Reality TV Seriously

Trump brought drama. Bravo sheds light. Brian Moylan has seen and covered it all.
By Amos Barshad

In This Cleveland Newsroom, AI Is Writing (But Not Reporting) the News

Cleveland.com is embracing AI tools, including an AI rewrite desk.

By Riddhi Setty
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NewsNation’s Moment

As Nexstar, its corporate parent, pursues a merger with Tegna, NewsNation goes after the Nancy Guthrie story.
By Amos Barshad

The Voice of the Uyghur Post 

A Uyghur-language news site is aiming to connect a scattered diaspora and preserve a culture at risk of disappearing.
By Liam Scott

Taking Reality TV Seriously

Trump brought drama. Bravo sheds light. Brian Moylan has seen and covered it all.
By Amos Barshad

In This Cleveland Newsroom, AI Is Writing (But Not Reporting) the News

Cleveland.com is embracing AI tools, including an AI rewrite desk.
By Riddhi Setty

What Happened to Trump’s Biggest Fan?

As Marjorie Taylor Greene contemplates her next move, her betrothed, a Trump-friendly broadcaster named Brian Glenn, is adjusting to life on the outside.
By Liam Scott

The Washington Post Gave Up on Diverse Coverage Well Before Layoffs

Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, staffers of color have been frustrated by supervisors’ lack of enthusiasm—and the paper’s diminishing resources—for their work. 
By Riddhi Setty

Elbowing In

In Olympia, Washington, a few right-wing media figures have been trying to get credentialed to cover the statehouse. Their efforts—which now include a lawsuit—have shaken up the entire press corps.
By John Stang

Inside the Reviewnaissance

A new generation tries its hand at publishing “the unusual, the difficult, the lengthy.”
By Carolina Abbott Galvão

What the Post Cuts Will Do

With a third of its staff gone, the Post won’t be able to deliver on the vision its leadership has laid out.
By Siddhartha Mahanta

How ‘Pink Slime’ Publishers Are Weaponizing FOIA 

Metric Media filed more than nine thousand public records requests last year. It used the data to target Democratic politicians and private citizens.
By Miranda Green

Politics

Survival Guide

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

Disarming the Global Free Press

For decades, American taxpayers helped promote democracy around the world. Then the US switched teams.
By Joel Simon

A Dismantling of the Washington Post

“Our leadership destroyed our brand.”
By Amos Barshad, Siddhartha Mahanta

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 Astonishing Arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort

“You cannot be neutral about the dismantling of our democracy and still expect to be protected by it,” Fort said in an interview. Two days later, officers came to her door.
By Carolina Abbott Galvão, Riddhi Setty

The Voice in the Deportation Machine

How Tricia McLaughlin defends Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda.
By Amos Barshad

The Journalism 2050 Issue

Forecasting

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

The Fight over AI at McClatchy

“Until we have solid language here, we’re not going to feel safe about the integrity of our jobs—or the language our readers read.”
By Lucy Schiller

‘A Trauma That You Carry’

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

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

A Veteran of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—and Its Long Strike—Prepares for What’s Next

“We didn’t go on strike to put the paper out of business. We went on strike to keep it good.”
By Megan Greenwell

Women’s Glossies Go MAGA

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

Copper Theft Is Making Small Radio Stations Go Silent

“They destroyed a whole outlet for a few hundred dollars.”
By Carolina Abbott Galvão

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

International

The Story of Gaza

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

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

Unaffiliated

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

The Law-and-Order Influencer

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

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

Synthetic Media

Artificial Intelligence

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

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

‘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

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

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

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

Standards and Practices

A New Look at Journalism Ethics

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

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

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

Remembering

Lessons Learned (Or Not)

Have journalists gotten better at covering Trump?

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

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

Reboot

Transformations

How technology is changing journalism.

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

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
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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.
By Thomas Whiteside