Analysis

A framework for newsrooms to use AI in ways that don’t sacrifice quality or lessen oversight.

Last week, a reporter in Nashville was detained by ICE. Officials claimed to have paperwork for her arrest, but her lawyers say it was warrantless—and retaliation for her reporting.

“We are like living ghosts,” the editor of the Teton Times said.

“You can look back at this last year and see that the administration’s attacks on the media are very much content-oriented,” Lemon’s lawyer said.

Estefany Rodríguez, a journalist for a Spanish-language outlet, was covering immigration raids. The next day, agents arrested her without presenting a warrant.

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

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.

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.

“It isn’t just an affront to localism. It’s an attempt to reengineer thought.”

An unprecedented attack on press freedom at the Washington Post.

Some TV news stations are breaking their national network affiliations, and leaning into local programming.

The parent organization of NPR and PBS, already defunded, is shutting down—and claims that’s for the best. But there are dangers ahead.

New York media outlets are being proactive about defending their rights as they anticipate the deployment of federal law enforcement.

CJR staff on stories to look out for in 2026.