In 2025, Press Freedom Came Under Direct Attack December 22, 2025 By Aida Alami We must not respond to this existential crisis with silence and apathy.
A Very Big Deal December 8, 2025 By Aida Alami In Netflix’s plan to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN is left out—to the reported relief of its staffers.
Twin Assaults on Press Freedom November 3, 2025 By Aida Alami The ICE detention of Sami Hamdi closely follows the deportation of Mario Guevara.
The Press Leaves the Pentagon October 20, 2025 By Aida Alami Proximity to power is not the only way—or even the best way—to report on government.
A Reporter Was on a Flotilla Bound for Gaza. Israel Detained Him—and Some Twenty Other Members of the Press. October 10, 2025 By Aida Alami “One of the port authority people or naval people put their foot on my head and told me to sit on my knees: Don’t move.”
Trust Issues July 2, 2025 By Aida Alami News consumers are skeptical of the press. That’s driving them to partisan personalities.
Q&A: Omar El Akkad on the War in Gaza and the Failure of Journalistic Institutions March 26, 2025 By Aida Alami A conversation with the author of One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This.
Connecting the Dots in Coverage of Trump and Islamophobia March 6, 2025 By Aida Alami The press has responded to his deluge of anti-immigrant announcements in kind, raising alarm that grants credence to an ahistorical premise.
What’s Missing from the Syria Coverage December 20, 2024 By Aida Alami Relief is only one part of the complex reality following the toppling of Bashar al-Assad.