Les Carpenter, an Olympics reporter, was one of hundreds of Washington Post journalists laid off last week. He still feels responsible to the audience of what he calls “the last American sports section.”

In the college town of Oxford, Ohio, the seventy-four-year-old former mayor is a paperboy. 

‘There is no conceivable degree of institutional incompetence sufficient to explain the scale, consistency, and persistence of the failures that occurred.’

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

With a third of its staff gone, the Post won’t be able to deliver on the vision its leadership has laid out.

Plus: Silence from the White House press corps, a weird AI gimmick, and a brilliant zine.

What might a truly collaborative media—that sees the public as a partner rather than an audience—look like?

Metric Media filed more than nine thousand public records requests last year. It used the data to target Democratic politicians and private citizens.

FOIA’s systemic problems meet partisan robo-requests.

“Our leadership destroyed our brand.”

“They destroyed a whole outlet for a few hundred dollars.”

With its reporting on ICE raids and foreign wars, Amjambo Africa aims to build a more inclusive community.

Independent journalists, content creators, and streamers converge and collide in Minneapolis. The arrests of Georgia Fort and Don Lemon make clear the risks they’re taking.

“We do it so that people in the general public don’t have to.”

How MAGA media outlets are fueling Trump’s crackdown on the press.