The dispute over plans for MediaFest, the nation’s largest conference of student journalists, reflects the polarization of the news industry that awaits them.

In a new survey from the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association, 85 percent of respondents say their reporting has been held to a “higher standard of neutrality.”

Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, promised to bring power to community stations. But it’s their corporate owners who make the big decisions—while regional reporters and station managers take the heat.

The author of a timely new book argues that freedom of speech has always been a “weaponized slogan.”

Hundreds of journalists are reporting on the former Brazilian president’s case. A fraction of them have been allowed inside the courtroom.