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California’s Big Bet on Government-Funded News
A Victim of the ‘Elon Musk Playbook’
Ruth Ann Harnisch on life as the fairy godmother of newsletters, podcasts, and blogs.
So Are Nonfiction Books Dead or Not?
Kenya Hunter took a terrifying leap out of journalism. She couldn’t be happier.
ETwenty Years of Food Blogs: Smitten Kitchen’s Deb Perelman has never needed AI to develop a recipe.
What Went Wrong: A first-time editor in chief reflects on a startup that didn’t work
Welcome to Hell: A site with personality big enough for the city it covers.
EWhy Do You Have to Run from Us? Local reporters are struggling to get answers from the politicians they cover.
No Fanboys Need Apply: Wired bares real teeth.
Sports Illustrated’s Emma Baccellieri on covering the changing world of women’s basketball.
How Documented is reinventing immigration coverage.
The Old Playbook of Power and Influence Is Different Now
The Globe’s Emily Sweeney breaks out of Boston.
How Elon Musk is colonizing the future.
Taking Back Saturday: “We’re sports people. We like to score.”
Student, Teacher: Eric Gustafson on fighting for journalistic integrity at every level.
The Inside Look: Chatting with the New York Times’ trust editor.
Lessons from an Early-Career Journalist
A Look Back at Covering Gaza for the Post
Profit or Nonprofit? A Debate over Journalism’s Future
The Letter of the Law, and the Law in Practice
Outlier Media Reimagines What Local News Can Be
A Veteran of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—and its Long Strike—Prepares for What’s Next
How the Gawker Trial Was the Gateway to Trump: Examining a political legacy, ten years on.
Defector’s Jasper Wang and His Unvarnished Truth
Why You Should Never Marry a Journalist—and Other Lessons from Decades in Media
Jay Rosen on the Digital Revolution That Wasn’t
Ben Smith Isn’t Afraid of the Future
How Silicon Valley Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Oligarchs
The Future of Journalism After Gaza
Douglas Rushkoff on Being the Intellectual Dominatrix of Billionaire Tech Bros
Journalism 2050 - Trailer
Margaret Sullivan Takes a New Look at Journalism Ethics
Chicago’s Block Club Is Ready for ICE
Elle Reeve on the Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect’s Inscrutable Memes
Garrett Graff Thinks the Press Should Be Taking Trump’s Health Much More Seriously
Hind Hassan Is Sorry We Didn’t Do More to Make Journalism Safe
Will the Jeffrey Epstein Scandal Break MAGA Media?
What’s the Matter with the BBC?
The Kicker Live: Branko Brkic Wants Journalists to Wake Up
The Kicker Live: Arwa Damon on Leaving CNN and Telling Stories from Gaza
The Kicker Live: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on American Misadventures in the Middle East
What’s the Point of Investigating Trump?
‘I Try to Find the Question That People Cannot Squirm Out Of’: An Interview with Nashville’s Phil Williams
‘The Threat Is Very Real’: NPR’s Katherine Maher on the Fight to Save Public Media
Inside El Salvador’s Dystopian Prison Network
Kai Ryssdal Was America’s Economic Voice of Reason This Week
Carlos Watson Goes Free: A Surprising Coda to the CJR Podcast
Molly White Knows You Don’t Understand Crypto
The Legal War on Journalism
The Kicker, the Masseuses, and the Price of Doing Sports Journalism
A Warning from a Hungarian Journalist: ‘Brace Yourself for the Worst’
CJR’s Jon Allsop on the Return of the Trump Whirlwind
Coda’s Natalia Antelava on Meta, Trump, and How Journalism Can Survive 2025
The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 3: The Verdict and the Pain
The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 2: Built on a Bluff
The Unraveling of Ozy Media: Episode 1: Truth and Mythmaking
Coming Soon: The Unraveling of Ozy Media
How Trump Won the Latino Vote: A Deep Dive with CJR Contributor Jack Herrera
Martin Baron on Jeff Bezos, the Post, and the role of presidential endorsements
How Trump’s team could craft ‘the narrative’ after the election: NBC’s Ryan Reilly on 2020, and the road ahead
Hell Gate's Chris Robbins on a manic news cycle in New York
The power of uncomfortable ideas: Jina Moore Ngarambe on her time at Guernica
‘That’s how you run a debate!’: 9News’s Kyle Clark on holding politicians accountable
The long, destructive path of fire: Talking to Source NM’s Patrick Lohmann about a never-ending wildfire season
1968 all over again? Heather Hendershot and Ted Koppel on a year for the media to remember.
Kamala Harris steps up: Politico’s Eugene Daniels on a wild month of news
Spanish-speaking journalism…in Iowa: A conversation with Lorena Lopez
What did we know and when? Alex Thompson on investigating Biden’s mental decline
Not even a ‘no comment’: Paul Farhi on the media’s historic struggles with relevance
Staying “scrupulously neutral”: Steve Herman on covering the White House in the age of Trump
How Israeli Journalists Cover Their Own Country
Crisis at Columbia: A Conversation with Jelani Cobb
'Inside Wagner': Video journalism unmasks Russia’s secretive mercenary group
Josh Fine: How to Revive Investigative Sports Reporting in the Age of the Athlete
Alissa Quart: on reimagining reporting on a recession
Svitlana Oslavska: On Documenting a War on Her Home Front
How Authoritarians Erase the Past
Hearts and Minds Media
Feven Merid: On Jacaranda Nigeria Limited
Jeff Gerth on the press versus the president
FT's Rana Foroohar: What the Davos Crowd Doesn't See
Jon Allsop Returns. Plus, What We’re Watching in 2023
The Tow Center’s Emily Bell: Musk’s Twitter is “openly hostile” to journalists. What should we do?
Introducing Red Pen: A Grammar Podcast
The Guardian’s David Smith: Covering a new chapter of Trump
Ross Barkan’s Notes on Election Coverage: Form, Function, and the Future
Bill Keller: On covering the ‘freedom’ beat – prisons and Russia
Nic Haque on Climate Change: 'I became a journalist because of this.'
Nothing to It: How John Bennet went from East Texas kid to New Yorker editor
Rebecca Traister: Abortion, a case study in media disinterest
Justin Worland: Raising diverse voices on the climate crisis beat
Nina Totenberg: ‘They don’t have to follow Supreme Court precedent anymore’
Columbia’s Jelani Cobb: ‘Everything is on the table’
Elena Kostyuchenko: 'The Russian secret services somehow knew'
Dean Baquet & Joe Kahn: What’s next for the New York Times?
Al Roker: The weather paradigm shift
Jane Lytvynenko: Ukraine’s great ‘prebunk’
Eleanor Beardsley & Igor Kossov: The road out of Ukraine