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The Access Issue

Who Sets the Narrative of Public Life

Introducing the Access Issue.
By Betsy Morais
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What Went Wrong 

A first-time editor in chief reflects on a startup that didn’t work.
By Megan Greenwell

Brand Buying

The battered Sports Illustrated has seen a rising ticket reseller profit off its storied name.
By Amos Barshad

Zohran Derangement Syndrome

NYC’s right-wing rags go full racist. Plus: Farmers pull a fast one; the human toll of deportation.
By Susie Banikarim

How a Network of Pink-Slime News Sites and Conservative Activists Went After Campus DEI

Using FOIA requests and hidden-camera videos, the groups targeted universities, leading to the firing of faculty and staff.
By Miranda Green

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‘The Largest Hay Shed in Oregon’?

Mike Rogoway of The Oregonian discusses AI data centers, their impact, and what comes next. 
By Riddhi Setty

In a Fast-Moving Crisis, What Is the Role of Journalism?

Community news organizations, enmeshed in an information ecosystem on social media and messaging apps, can verify, clarify, and connect.
By Irene Romulo, Nina Weingrill

A Tale of Two Speeches

The press’s responsible handling of Trump’s incoherent speech about US election integrity contrasted starkly with Friday’s farcical WHCA dinner.

By Jem Bartholomew
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I Tried Investigating a Mysterious Media Company. A Police Report Was Filed Against Me.

Who was in charge—Pleroma, the International Business Times, or something else?
By Riddhi Setty

How Transparent Should I Be About AI?

Clearing up confusion about how and why to disclose AI use in writing.
By Anika Collier Navaroli

‘To Have Any Kind of Relationship with a Reporter Is a Scarlet Letter’

CBS’s Céline Gounder on how the rapid spread of the “diarrhea parasite” is a symptom of Trump’s government cuts—which have stymied access to crucial public health information.
By Ivan L. Nagy

If They Can’t Block This Merger, Can Anyone?

State attorneys general are trying to stop Paramount Skydance from merging with Warner Bros. Discovery. It’s the best shot left at preventing—or at least stalling—what seems inevitable.
By Amos Barshad

‘I Promised People I Would Do Something’

When Antonio Sánchez lost his job—and Oregon lost its only Spanish news station—he started his own daily YouTube broadcast. The show now reaches tens of thousands.
By Grace Benninghoff

How to Develop AI Guidelines

Speaking with newsroom leaders and policy experts to think through the rules for journalists—and how to make them work for your organization.
By Emily Goligoski

Exposure to Risk

Freelance photographers are organizing against a new contract at the Wall Street Journal that they say opens their work up to AI training.
By Daniella Zalcman

Reporting the Platner Allegations

In Me Too coverage, timing is everything.
By Betsy Morais

‘A Mega-Disaster in a Hollowed-Out State’

After a historic earthquake, Tony Frangie Mawad was among the Venezuelan journalists who connected people in need to those who could help.
By Ivan L. Nagy

‘All I Have Is the Power to Talk and Be Heard’

Tucker Carlson on pitying Donald Trump, never listening to podcasts, and planning a new political party—while selling you nicotine pouches. 
By Amos Barshad

The Access Issue

Inside and Out

Our new special issue on the restrictions, workarounds, glories, and trade-offs of journalistic access.

Who Counts?

The Committee to Protect Journalists’ role documenting members of the press killed in the Israel-Gaza war has made it a target.
By Jem Bartholomew

Agenda Journalism

The Baltimore Sun swipes at Wes Moore, and a seasoned reporter resigns. Plus: Holding the police accountable, and the grim reality of wellness treatments.
By Susie Banikarim

They’ve Got Bite

Coyote, a new media collective in the Bay Area, is irreverent, human, and unabashedly political.
By Lucy Schiller

Pitched Battle

Coverage of the 2026 World Cup promises to bring politics off the sidelines.
By Amos Barshad

How Does Access Work Now?

Journalists, podcasters, and news influencers on the erosion of access—what it’s worth, and what it isn’t.
By Carolina Abbott Galvão, Riddhi Setty, Ivan L. Nagy

Reboot

Transformations

How technology is changing journalism.

Subversion of Reality

The Faustian bargain of embedding with the Israeli military in Gaza.  
By Gerry Shih

Restraint and Fecklessness

The White House Correspondents’ Association has been working hard to maintain diplomacy with Donald Trump. To what end?
By Liz Skalka

Out of State

How Graham Platner’s Senate campaign vexed the national press.
By Vanessa M. Gezari

‘America Knows Less About Itself at the Very Moment It Needs to Know the Truth’

While communities of color are under attack, Black journalists lose ground. Still, Black media-makers are expanding our thinking. And there’s a Black Crossword.
By Susie Banikarim

A Star Is Born

The Post looked down and out. Robert Allbritton made his move. 
By Adam Piore

Figueroa Street and the Ethical Duty of Care

Looking back at a New York Times magazine story to examine what responsible coverage of sex trafficking looks like—and what it doesn’t.
By Nina Alvarez

Hannah Natanson’s Advice to Journalists

A lecture to the Columbia Journalism School class of 2026.
By Hannah Natanson

Breathing New Life into the Obituary

A new podcast uses one of journalism’s oldest forms to explore universal truths.
By Meg Dalton

The West Bank in Focus

A recent wave of coverage has drawn attention to settler violence—and forced the Israeli government to talk about it.
By Amos Barshad

White Plight

The Trump administration is helping a white, male editor sue the New York Times for discrimination.
By Jem Bartholomew, Riddhi Setty

Politics

Survival Guide

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

Blind Spots

A satellite company popular among journalists issued an indefinite blackout in the Middle East. Open-source investigators got to work—and challenged official narratives.
By Alex Pasternack

With Malice

Kash Patel’s FBI is going after reporters and news organizations for routine newsgathering practices.
By Jem Bartholomew

The Town

The Globe’s Emily Sweeney breaks out of Boston.
By Megan Greenwell

Going Nuclear

Trump’s media company keeps getting weirder. 
By Jem Bartholomew

The Venetoulis Institute Goes to Pittsburgh

A nice save, followed by rough cuts.
By Riddhi Setty

The Journalism 2050 Issue

Forecasting

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

‘Corporate Meddling and Editorial Fear’

The Ellisons are closing in on CNN.
By Jem Bartholomew

Magazine Journalism on Life Support 

The Devil Wears Prada 2 and the search for the mythical billionaire savior.
By James Grebey

Fighting the Machine

Journalists across the United States are fighting for contracts that address AI use: “We don’t want it to be done in our name, literally.”
By Riddhi Setty

‘They Finally Got Me’ 

Fifty years after a car bomb killed Don Bolles, an investigative journalist in Arizona, Jeremy Duda reconstructs a murder story that resonates.
By Carolina Abbott Galvão

Is Kidnapping Back?

The abduction of Shelly Kittleson, on a busy Baghdad street in the midst of a regional war, suggests that American journalists could once again become targets.
By Joel Simon

In Indiana, a Campus Newspaper Adviser Fights for the ‘Soul of Our Country’

Jim Rodenbush refused to make students stop printing hard news. He got fired. Then he became a national hero.
By Corey Hutchins

Hungary Got a Fresh Start. Will Its Media?

As Hungarians put an end to Viktor Orbán’s regime, shutting down propaganda is first on the agenda of Péter Magyar, the incoming prime minister.
By Ivan L. Nagy

A Reflection of What It Is We Do

Political violence at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
By Jem Bartholomew

International

The Story of Gaza

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

Larry Madowo on Covering Africa, ‘Warts and All’ 

“Africans are not just victims. We have a role in these stories and a perspective on them.”
By Maurice Oniang’o

The Post Tries to Regroup

After announcing major cuts, the paper is delaying layoffs and attempting to hire back former staffers.
By Riddhi Setty

AI Data Centers in the Land of Diminished Local News

“At least some of these big companies look for communities that are news deserts to build projects,” a local journalist said, “because it’s easier for them when there’s less public scrutiny.”
By Lucy Schiller

Worries at the Door

Estefany Rodríguez was reporting on an ICE raid in Nashville. The next day, she was detained. She has since been released on bond, but her fate is uncertain.
By Carolina Abbott Galvão

‘If Someone Lit Up a Match, the Place Would Explode’

Viktor Orbán’s regime is increasingly targeting journalists. But even if he loses the election coming up this weekend, Hungary won’t become a press haven overnight.
By Ivan L. Nagy

Synthetic Media

Artificial Intelligence

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

What’s Up with Tony?

How Tony Dokoupil went from being a hair model to a print journalist to the anchor of CBS Evening News, guided by the principle “We love America.”
By Amos Barshad

Pushed Out. Reinstated. Pushed Out Again.

Last week, New York Times reporters were supposed to return to the Pentagon’s corridors. Instead, the entire press corps was banished to an annex, and the Times is back in court.
By Ivan L. Nagy

Who Is Left to Cover Lebanon?

A nation that helped shape modern war reporting is now treated as peripheral. In the wake of journalist killings, the consequences are clear not only for members of the press, but for how the story of Lebanon is being told. 
By Zahra Hankir

‘It’s Really Hard to Give Up That Kind of Money’

Kevin Ortega-Rojas, the creator of Here’s Why, curates political news for hundreds of thousands of people. Lately, he’s had to make tradeoffs between earning trust and earning a living.
By Lindsay Kalter

Waiting for Shihab-Eldin

Early last month, the journalist was arrested in Kuwait on the basis of what CPJ calls “vague and overly broad accusations.” I’ve known him to be a reporter who is quick and elegant and resists euphemism.
By Aida Alami

Standards and Practices

A New Look at Journalism Ethics

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

Shelly Kittleson’s Abduction, Before and After

​​Over the years, I have come to know that Shelly is a disciplined reporter and vigilant about her safety. But the risks to her, as for most journalists in the region, are part of the ecosystem.
By Kiran Nazish

Was the FBI Raid on a Washington Post Reporter’s Home an Act of Retribution?

Investigators “assisted” Hannah Natanson in applying her right index finger to a Post-owned MacBook Pro, accessing all its data.
By Jem Bartholomew

How Bloodstains Photographed from Space Brought Attention to a Forgotten War

When the Sudanese city of El-Fasher was sacked by paramilitaries last fall, ground reporting gave way to long-distance analysis.
By Isma’il Kushkush

Prying Open the Black Box

ICE conceals the breadth of its detention network by limiting access, but recent immigration reporting shows that information can and will emerge if we keep looking.
By Carolina Abbott Galvão

Unsilencing Voice of America

A judge ruled that Kari Lake’s tenure at USAGM was unconstitutional and ordered employees back to work. But a new appointee and legal challenges could make a fresh start difficult.
By Ivan L. Nagy

CNN’s Missed Opportunity

A promising digital transition is underway. But a Paramount buyout will likely doom the progress being made.
By Kyle Paoletta

Meet the Meteorologists Leaving Broadcast Behind

In an era of extreme weather, indie weathermen are streaming coverage 24-7—and banding together.
By Elizabeth Hewitt

Inside an East African Investigative Newsroom That Has Defied a Decade of Pressure

Africa Uncensored has survived legal threats, intimidation, and politically motivated attacks on its funders to become a prominent force in Kenya’s investigative journalism landscape.
By Maurice Oniang’o

Estefany Rodríguez in Limbo

Last week, a reporter in Nashville was detained by ICE. Officials claimed to have paperwork for her arrest, but her lawyers say it was warrantless—and retaliation for her reporting.
By Carolina Abbott Galvão

As US Bombs Iran, a Judge Rules on the Battle for Hearts and Minds

A federal court says Kari Lake didn’t have legal standing to gut federally funded broadcasters such as Voice of America and Radio Free Europe.
By Jem Bartholomew

Remembering

Lessons Learned (Or Not)

Have journalists gotten better at covering Trump?

On Standing Rock, Local News Is Teetering

“We are like living ghosts,” the editor of the Teton Times said.
By Liam Scott

The New York Times Takes the Pentagon to Court 

As the US wages war on Iran, journalists’ fight for access enters a new phase.
By Ivan L. Nagy

A Reporter in Nashville, Detained by ICE

Estefany Rodríguez, a journalist for a Spanish-language outlet, was covering immigration raids. The next day, agents arrested her without presenting a warrant.
By Carolina Abbott Galvão

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

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

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

Disarming the Global Free Press

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

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

A Dismantling of the Washington Post

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