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The Legal Battle for DOGE Transparency

How civil society groups are making the case for public-records access.
By Kyle Paoletta

Monumental Tiny News

The triumph of Lucy Lippard’s El Puente, which is as engaged with the past of a New Mexican village as it is with daily life.
By Lucy Schiller

The Newest Reporting Recruits

A New York City program wants to foster student journalism. It’s as vexed by reader engagement as the professionals are.
By Megan Greenwell

Student Journalists Wrestle with Censoring Their Own Work

Navigating a surge in requests to take down previously published material.
By Lauren Watson

Inside Outside

Layoffs, acquisitions, and a contributors’ revolt.
By Lauren Watson

Politics

Survival Guide

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

I Vaticanisti: Meet the Reporters Covering Pope Francis

At the Holy See, journalists from around the world monitor the Roman Catholic pontiff—especially now.
By Sacha Biazzo

Audiences Are Tuning In More Closely to News About Trump

Pew research shows that fifty-six percent of Democrats find news about the administration “hard to avoid,” compared with thirty-one percent of Republicans.
By Meghnad Bose

The Glossy Mirage

When American magazines pulled out of Russia, the editors stuck around and remade them for the country left behind—without mentioning war.
By Andrew Fedorov

The Time to Look

“In our hearts, we do have room for everything,” Chen Liberman, an Israeli journalist, says. “But in our lineups? That’s a different story.”
By Yona TR Golding

Trump’s Tariffs Are Causing Chaos for Newspapers

The on-again, off-again announcements are causing prices of Canadian newsprint to rise.
By Sacha Biazzo

Remembering

Lessons Learned (Or Not)

Have journalists gotten better at covering Trump?

The Last Days at Voice of America

Covering the press freedom beat at VOA, I got a front-row seat to its demise.
By Liam Scott

On the Arrest of an Autocrat

Journalists, lawyers, clergy, and human rights activists persisted in the Philippines, even when hope for accountability seemed nonexistent. 
By Sheila S. Coronel

How I’m Teaching My Students to Report When Sources Are Afraid to Talk

Even scientists are getting harder to reach.
By John Schwartz

What Can a Journalist Do?

The world we inhabit is the result of a chain of decisions, none of them inevitable. Journalism can help inform those decisions and how people think about them.
By Jon Allsop

Buying In

The editor of Los Angeles magazine recruited new owners, who promised to invest in ambitious journalism. The trouble was, he believed them.
By Maddy Crowell
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Reboot

Transformations

How technology is changing journalism.

From Marty Baron to Robber Baron

Jeff Bezos is heel-turning the Washington Post opinion section into the realm of the far right.
By Andrew Rosenthal

Reading the Numbers

Understanding money is key to grappling with power. Business journalism isn’t set up for that.
By Sara Silver

The Storm Inside

There are many journalists hiding from the stigma of mental health, addiction, or both, trying not to appear as damaged goods and to keep on working. I want them to know that they are not alone.
By Ayman Oghanna

Back to School

Local newsrooms are donating themselves to Arizona State in exchange for administrative support.
By Lauren Watson

The Unraveling of Ozy Media

The trial of Carlos Watson and the excesses of the digital media age.
By Susie Banikarim and Josh Hersh

The Media Today

The Best of Jon Allsop

Our newsletter columnist on the triumphs and trials of the press.

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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