Josh Marshall reflects on building “a tabloid for smart people” and how his politics blog survived in a “chaotic and unstable and bad business.”

Building a quote-detection tool for accountability in journalism.

On university campuses, student papers are fighting their own administrations—and sometimes the government—for the right to report.

Layoffs at CBS, NBC, and Teen Vogue show a shift in newsroom priorities away from the promises of 2020.

I was editor in chief of Hungary’s most-read independent daily until a pro-government media network bought the newspaper. It’s the fifth time in thirty years that politics has cost me my job—and it’s all about Orbán holding on to power.

Primate prevarication in the Deep South. Plus, the immigration crackdown in Chicago, and the wonderfully wonky world of Bolts.

Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platform’s “Community Notes.”

More than three-quarters of teens surveyed have negative views of the press, a new study finds.

A nostalgia trip down County Highway.

Equator promises to move beyond a Western-centric perspective. Can it?

The New York City mayoral candidate promises radical change that editorial boards don’t want, even if voters do.

A new generation of journalists emerges from the rainforest, just in time for COP30.

The ICE detention of Sami Hamdi closely follows the deportation of Mario Guevara.

The BBC is making a play in the US. Can it find a market?

Some puffery at CBS News. Plus: Radley Balko reads the receipts, New York magazine thieving from the New York Times, and a “high-ranking dumb” drug bust.