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Transparency Didnā€™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

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How Project 2025 Kneecapped the US Press

The Heritage Foundationā€™s road map for a conservative presidency proposed sweeping media reforms. Trump carried out most of themā€”and he has three years left.
By Ivan L. Nagy

The Idiot

Lex Fridmanā€™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

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

Future Forecasting

Introducing the Journalism 2050 Issue.
By Betsy Morais

Visions of 2050

We asked prominent media figures to read the presentā€”and try to predict the future.
By Carolina Abbott GalvĆ£o, Riddhi Setty

The Journalism 2050 Issue

Forecasting

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

Locally Sourced Chum

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

Hong Kongā€™s Jimmy Lai Is Convicted of National Security ChargesĀ 

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 ThoughtĀ 

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

Politics

Survival Guide

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

Brazilā€™s ā€˜Netflix of the Rightā€™ 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 GalvĆ£o

Writing Her Way Out

With American Canto, Olivia Nuzzi puts herself back in the headlinesā€”perhaps not in the way she intended.
By Carolina Abbott GalvĆ£o

How Students Are Trying to Save Local News

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

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 ā€œthe backdrop for national politics and rhetoric.ā€Ā 
By Lucy Schiller

International

The Story of Gaza

Journalism confronts a crisisā€”Israeli attacks, starving children, hostages, mass deathā€”that won’t let up.

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 theyā€™ve come.
By Amos Barshad

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

While veteran national security reporters canā€™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 Nationā€™s Longest Ongoing Strike Is Overā€”but the Battle Isnā€™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 GalvĆ£o

The Tragic Loss of Teen Vogue

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

Synthetic Media

Artificial Intelligence

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

Biased, Boring Liars

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

Viktor OrbĆ”nā€™s Hail MaryĀ 

I was editor in chief of Hungaryā€™s most-read independent daily until a pro-government media network bought the newspaper. Itā€™s the fifth time in thirty years that politics has cost me my jobā€”and itā€™s all about OrbĆ”n holding on to power.
By IvƔn Zsolt Nagy

One Battle After Another

On university campuses, student papers are fighting their own administrationsā€”and sometimes the governmentā€”for the right to report.
By Carolina Abbott GalvĆ£o, 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

Standards and Practices

A New Look at Journalism Ethics

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

X Is Using AI Fact-CheckersĀ 

Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platformā€™s ā€œCommunity Notes.ā€
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

How a Beloved Soccer Teamā€™s TV Channel Got Red-Pilled

Real Madrid TV has indulged in outlandish theories and populist motifs to draw in audiences: ā€œItā€™s the currency of our age.ā€
By Amos Barshad

Sound Crew

Signal Hill, a new audio magazine, embraces the weird.
By Carolina Abbott GalvĆ£o

Brendan Carrā€™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

NY1ā€™s Errol Louis Takes the Stage

ā€œThe rest of the world is tuning in,ā€ he said, of moderating a mayoral debate. ā€œBut in the end, itā€™s not that different from when I used to do city council debates in a church basement.ā€
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

Chicagoā€™s Block Club Is Ready for ICE

The independent digital startup has been on the ground covering ICEā€™s surge and the attacks on journalists.
By Josh Hersh

Remembering

Lessons Learned (Or Not)

Have journalists gotten better at covering Trump?

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 ā€œhigher standard of neutrality.ā€
By Carolina Abbott GalvĆ£o

Student Journalism Is Fraught, Too

The dispute over plans for MediaFest, the nationā€™s largest conference of student journalists, reflects the polarization of the news industry that awaits them.
By Carolina Abbott GalvĆ£o

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

Reboot

Transformations

How technology is changing journalism.

A Tipping Point at CBS News

Bari Weiss has officially been announced as the editor in chief of CBS News. ā€œSheā€™s not a reporter; sheā€™s never been in the field,ā€ a 60 Minutes producer told Adam Piore for a recent profile of CBS. ā€œTalk about controversies.ā€
By Adam Piore

Scenes from Immigration Court in New Yorkā€™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

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 Machineā€”with Polish Origins

A site called VisegrƔd 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
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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