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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

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

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

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

Politics

Survival Guide

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

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

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

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

International

The Story of Gaza

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

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

The Pentagon Press Gears Up for a Fight

“None of us are signing this pledge,” said one reporter.
By Ivan L. Nagy

Synthetic Media

Artificial Intelligence

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

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

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

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

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

Standards and Practices

A New Look at Journalism Ethics

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

The Creative Approach Behind Penske’s AI Lawsuit

Some legal experts think it has a chance to succeed where others before it have failed.
By Riddhi Setty

The Campaign Against Network Television Picks Up Steam

The suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show was just the latest result of an ongoing conservative effort to stamp out unfavorable voices.
By Amos Barshad

Creative Control

Aaron Parnas, a twenty-six-year-old with a larger TikTok audience than some mainstream outlets and the most popular “news” Substack, is making his own journalism rules—and taking dark money.
By Liz Skalka

Alan Berg and Charlie Kirk; the Old Media and the New

The long string of anti-media violence in America.
By Jon Allsop

Liveblogging Through It

Vetting, “transgender ideology,” and the race to fill a breaking-news void in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death. 
By Ivan L. Nagy

How News Streamers Covered the Killing of Charlie Kirk

The hugely popular world of online news and commentary offers a window into how young people consume current events.
By Yona TR Golding

The Last Reporter to Profile Charlie Kirk

Millions of young conservatives got their news, and political inspiration, from Kirk’s media operation.
By Josh Hersh

The Business of Balance

Ground News promises to cut through media bias and deliver the facts. Does it?
By Martina Di Licosa

The Battle for Public Notices

By law, the government and other entities are required to publish certain information in a “paper of record.” If the rules change, what will be lost?
By Lucy Schiller

Times Change, and So Can Ethics

Journalism needs new guidelines to face new challenges.
By Margaret Sullivan

Remembering

Lessons Learned (Or Not)

Have journalists gotten better at covering Trump?

How to Survive the (Media) Apocalypse

Lessons from journalists who have lived through all this.
By Paulina Milewska and Ksenia Mironova

News Subscriptions Should Be Subsidized

Eighty-three percent of the country doesn’t have a single media subscription. Readership assistance programs can help them.
By Martin Skladany

The Bigger Threat to Books Than Bans

Access to e-books relies entirely on private distributors that have the power to shut them off at any moment.
By Maria Bustillos

I Tested How Well AI Tools Work for Journalism

Some tools were sufficient for summarizing meetings. For research, the results were a disaster.
By Hilke Schellmann

Stars and Stripes Keeps Its Head Down

The paper was almost shut down during the first Trump administration. Now editors are navigating a less cooperative Pentagon.
By Liam Scott

Reboot

Transformations

How technology is changing journalism.

The Cuban Journalist Trapped in America’s Immigration Blockade

José Luis Tan Estrada has been stuck in Mexico since May, locked in asylum purgatory.
By David C. Adams

The Memory Keepers

A frontline Ukrainian newspaper draws from its own history.
By Sophie Watson

Is the US Media Captured?

The phenomenon comes in many forms. Experts believe it’s already here.
By Joel Simon

When Neutrality Is a Constraint

Journalism in the 1930s failed to communicate the danger of Hitler’s rise. Are we repeating the same mistake now?
By Lisa Armstrong

Joseph McCarthy’s War on Voice of America

A largely forgotten campaign of harassment and persecution from the 1950s that still echoes today.
By Daniel Golden
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