2+ hour ago  (269+ words) It's a weird time to be a journalist. Digital news archives are disappearing. Generative AI is giving em dashes a bad name. Layoffs. Consolidations. Buyouts. Burnout. Countless, daily insults from the nation's most powerful people. At the same time, the…...

2+ hour, 30+ min ago  (1713+ words) Just like 2024, and 2023, and 2022, it was another tough year for journalism and those who recognize its importance in our democracy. But while recent years were defined largely by financial hardship, the profession took some body blows from a new place…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (225+ words) Journalists at The Baltimore Banner sued for autopsy reports from Maryland's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. They pored through data and created a dataset other newsrooms could use to do their own investigations." They also stood on corners, sat…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago  (962+ words) I hoped 2025 would bring clarity about how generative artificial intelligence would change the media. It didn't. There was no "deepfake apocalypse," only the steady flow of AI slop onto our social media feeds. AI companies signed licensing deals with news…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (332+ words) After waiting four years to return to the White House, President Donald Trump did not hesitate. Since then, Trump and his administration have launched a barrage of attacks on the press, both in the United States and abroad. Presidential administrations…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (604+ words) The rankings come from Chartbeat, an analytics provider for many large news companies, which analyzed 41 million pieces of content from its clients, including major media organizations like Fox News, CNN, The New York Times and the BBC. Its 2025 Most Engaging…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago  (1550+ words) Kate Cox is no stranger to these newsroom realities. She faced them as a Leadership Academy for Women participant in 2022. Today, she helps others through them as the program's director. Cox has both vantage points. She knows what it's like…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago  (1766+ words) Good morning and welcome to a special edition of The Poynter Report Today, we look back at the year in media " the good, the bad and the ugly. And there sure was a lot of ugly, with President Donald Trump…...

1+ week, 3+ hour ago  (1584+ words) The concept of truth feels particularly bleak in 2025. The last 10 years have been an ugly era for facts, marked by a drumbeat of untruths and near-constant charges of "fake news" from the decade's most influential player, President Donald Trump. The…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (1189+ words) If you went to the Federal Communications Commission website first thing Wednesday morning, you would have read the following: "An independent U.S. government agency overseen by Congress, the Commission is the federal agency responsible for implementing and enforcing America's communications law…...