My friends and family know I’m a fact-checker, so they send memes on a regular basis, asking me, “Is this true?” It’s usually a post that makes them sad or […]

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When it comes to press freedom and the president of the United States, this will go down as one of the stranger and more disruptive weeks in recent memory. Thursday, […]

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We often think about impact as the reform that occurs after an investigation. But if you want your story to make a difference, you should be thinking about what that […]

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Once again, a federal court has said President Donald Trump has gone too far in his attacks against a free press in this country. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly listened […]

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President Donald Trump was back on TV on Tuesday. Well, for a little while. As you’re well aware by now, Trump and the U.S. news networks are feuding. Trump started […]

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Queues curled around the campus theater and parking spilled into auxiliary lots as approximately 4,000 people converged on Sonoma State University to hear inane stories from the week’s news. This […]

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The New York Times’ Peter Baker recorded a video Monday in which he said that in the 30 years he has covered the White House, he had never seen a […]

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“That’s it,” my friend exclaimed as she collapsed into the chair across from me. “This time, I am really going to quit.” Her newsroom manager was sending her passive-aggressive messages […]

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This article was originally published in the Student Press Report, a national news desk covering student media and journalism education in higher ed. If I’ve learned anything during the last […]

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When I was hired in 2019 to cover public health in Eastern Kentucky at the Lexington Herald-Leader, my job was to fill a gap in news coverage. For four of […]

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Just when you think President Donald Trump has done everything possible to attack press freedoms in this country, he pulls out a machete and hacks away even more. Over the […]

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ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (September 21, 2026) — Amid a growing movement for national and local philanthropies to support local news, the Poynter Institute has launched its first online course aimed […]

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Sept. 18, 1851, was a special day in American journalism. It was on that day — 175 years ago today, to be exact — that The New York Times published […]

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Mallary Tenore Tarpley got nearly 50 rejections on the path to publishing her memoir, “mostly from publishers and from grants and fellowships I had applied for — and I wasn’t […]

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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Sept. 17, 2026) – The world’s fact-checkers will gather in Antwerp, Belgium, for GlobalFact 2027, the 14th edition of the field’s largest professional meeting.  The International Fact-Checking […]

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The scene in Chatsworth, a suburban neighborhood of Los Angeles, on Tuesday was already tragic. An SUV had crashed into a Metro bus, killing two people. But then it got […]

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Communities and state governments that are inclined to host new data centers are now realizing that (thanks to the moratorium movement) they possess something surprising: serious leverage. They can and […]

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President Donald Trump was quick to boast about how many Americans tuned in to the Republicans’ midterm convention, but the facts don’t back him up. On Sept. 10, hours after […]

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Anthropic employees are quitting and warning that artificial intelligence could end humanity. AI agents have broken out of test environments to hack websites. And lawmakers are proposing new regulations aimed […]

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This article was originally published by Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative and is republished here with permission. In 2024, the Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern University conducted its first in-depth […]

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If someone had told you a decade ago that we would have a president who changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, tore up the East […]

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Lawmakers face pressure to respond to growing alarm over artificial intelligence, after a researcher from leading AI company Anthropic resigned and said in a public X thread that AI could […]

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This column is part of the Indianapolis Public Editor project, a pilot program designed to test whether the presence of a public editor who analyzes local coverage can elevate audience […]

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Fresh off the presses from a Pew Research Center and Knight Foundation collaboration, a new report shows solid support for a free press. Just about three-quarters of the public say […]

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“60 Minutes” had its much-anticipated season premiere on Sunday. All eyes were on what the show would look like under the direction of new executive producer Nick Bilton and, ultimately, […]

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The only food in my kitchen was a bag of russet potatoes, my pants were starting to fall down my hips, and I wasn’t going to make rent that month. […]

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You’ve probably heard that using artificial intelligence consumes a lot of water. But how does it measure up with snacking on almonds? OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made the comparison in […]

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ESPN has spent the past several years trying to navigate — often awkwardly and inconsistently — the delicate balance between discussing sports, politics and social issues. There has been criticism […]

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For the Associated Press stylebook, Gulf of Mexico stayed. Lake Ontario will, too. In January 2025, Donald Trump, fresh into his second term, issued an executive order to rename the […]

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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said despite high healthcare spending, the U.S. is failing its children on an unprecedented level. “This country pays two to three times what every […]

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