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Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, staffers of color have been frustrated by supervisors’ lack of enthusiasm—and the paper’s diminishing resources—for their work. 

A tool for parsing the Epstein dumps. Plus: Papers clash in the Deep South; a decades-long Florida waitlist.

More and more, Elon Musk’s chatbot is both suggesting and approving changes to Grokipedia, his Wikipedia clone.

Experts discuss the risks posed to journalism as the courts test the limits of press freedom law.

A niche sport and its media entanglements.

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.”