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Recently, there have been rumors of Die Mennonitische Post being “mainstream media.” John Dueck, the editor, covers the facts about vaccination anyway.
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Is Objectivity Still Worth Pursuing?

A generation of journalists is challenging traditional standards.
By Julie Gerstein and Margaret Sullivan

Thirty Years After New York Newsday, There’s Never Been Another Paper Like It

The daily flourished during a golden age of city reporting.
By Wendell Jamieson

How Local Reporters Manage the Dangers of Covering Extremism

The extremism beat has gone mainstream—but in local markets, it’s still intensely personal.
By Liam Scott

How to Sell Yourself in Wartime

On the front lines of the Ukrainian media’s fight for funding.
By Annie Hylton

Times Mamdani Article Using Hacked Documents from White Supremacist Draws Outcry

“What matters most here is whether the information was true and factual,” the Times’ Patrick Healy told CJR.
By Liam Scott

Synthetic Media

Artificial Intelligence

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

Paramount Will Pay President Trump $16 Million to Settle 60 Minutes Lawsuit

“It is a dark day for independent journalism,” says Sen. Bernie Sanders.
By Kyle Paoletta

The Wintour Chatter

Anna Wintour announced that she would be stepping away from her post as the editor of Vogue—and got everyone talking.
By Haley Mlotek

A Secret Program Allowed VOA to Broadcast Television into North Korea. Now It’s Gone.

How the Trump administration undermined its own strategic position.
By Joel Simon

Live from Tbilisi

Conversations from the Zeg Storytelling Festival on the challenges and triumphs of journalism.
By Josh Hersh

The PSAi

Introducing our campaign to stop the spread of fake media.
By Betsy Morais

White House

A Hundred Days

Our series on the fog of news and propaganda that has marked Donald Trump’s return to Washington.

The Huckabee Newsletter Problem

Mike Huckabee, now the US ambassador to Israel, earns a substantial sum from Substack subscriptions—and the company takes a portion of the fees. Israel coverage is welcome.
By Dave Levinthal

A New Wave of Narrative Podcasts Takes On Africa’s Youth Struggles

Radio Workshop is part of a network of documentary-style podcasts growing across the continent.
By Maurice Oniang’o

It’s Time for a New Look at Journalism Ethics

The first part in a series on the challenges facing the media industry today.
By Margaret Sullivan

Small-Town Newspapers Are Dying Because No One Wants to Run Them

And it’s not just about the money.
By Liam Scott

A Lost Look

UNESCO promised to elevate Indigenous media as a human right. Instead, it erased the work of our community—and the risks we face.
By Jenni Monet

Politics

Survival Guide

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

Don’t Mourn the Death of Alt-Weeklies. They’re Alive and Well.

In some communities, alt-weeklies have outlasted the daily paper.
By Aimee Levitt

Journalists Attest to Experiences of Sexual Misconduct with Wesley Lowery

Lowery rose to prominence as a reporter and media thinker. Women in the industry say he engaged in sexual harassment and assault.
By Betsy Morais

Cover-Up in Plain Sight

New books examine how the Biden administration handled the delicate subject of age—but not how the press covered the story.
By Richard J. Tofel

Pioneering Payback

The potential of the Oregon Journalism Protection Act.
By Lauren Watson

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

Remembering

Lessons Learned (Or Not)

Have journalists gotten better at covering Trump?

The Hidden Toll of Reporting on the Sudanese Civil War

Local journalists say it often feels like belligerents are waging an undeclared war against the press.
By Nalova Akua

The Phone-Spying Scandal Rocking Italian Journalists

Editors at a publication known for hard-hitting investigations of government officials have learned their phones were hacked.
By Sacha Biazzo

The Road to Kismet

A new magazine seeks spiritual conversation outside of the conservative bubble.
By Feven Merid

Brian from Michigan

Thirteen years ago, I lied to a guy named Brian on national television. So I decided to find him and apologize.
By Bill Adair

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

Reboot

Transformations

How technology is changing journalism.

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

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

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

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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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