Watergate. Spying by the National Security Agency. Bungled protection by the Secret Service. These stories have two things in common: Each were major, consequential pieces of journalism about the federal government that got big…
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Social cards — images designed for specifically for social media — aren’t new. News organizations have been using them to create content…
This week’s news that Medium is laying off 50 employees and closing its offices in Washington, D.C. and New York came…
Facebook’s new head of news partnerships will be Campbell Brown, the founding editor in chief of a nonprofit educational news site.…
It’s not exactly “Dewey defeats Truman,” but the cover of Thursday’s Express, The Washington Post’s free publication, is a doozy. The…
For the past 24 hours, Chicago media have been cautiously running gruesome video of four people tying up, cutting, beating and…
A revolving door of cable news show hosts continued spinning Thursday as Tucker Carlson got a new gig at Fox News,…
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Megyn Kelly is leaving Fox News for NBC News, bringing an end to one of the most protracted and public contract…
As Hurricane Sandy bore down on the Connecticut coast late October of 2012 and Gov. Dannel Malloy pled with residents to…
To understand how Donald Trump will change America, don’t listen to his speeches, says Vox Editor-in-Chief Ezra Klein. Instead, look at…
It wasn’t that long ago that there were a few sure things in this world: — ESPN would continue to print…
Here’s something you don’t hear enough: Journalists, you’re doing a good job. Chances are good that you learned a new skill…
This year, I visited six newsrooms. Some had low-ceilinged cubicle mazes with coffee-stained carpets and newsprint towers. Some had quote-covered glass…
Over the past nine months, I’ve admitted some big weaknesses to hundreds of strangers. I’ve spoken about my struggles with low…
Front pages on Wednesday led with a last salute to actress Carrie Fisher, who died on Tuesday at age 60. Many…
Arguably the biggest newspaper business story of 2016 was Gannett’s failed (for now) bid to take over Tronc. What the broken…
I am retiring from the Poynter Institute on New Year’s Eve. As my wife and I watch the ball in Times…
More than a month after the election, the following sentence has become a cable news cliché: Journalists in New York and…
Eileen Eagar was a single mom, working at a steel mill in Chicago. Feeding her two kids sometimes meant going out…
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Good morning. A media A-list’s favorite books of 2016 Jake Tapper, the CNN reporter-show host, needed far less time than even…
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As journalists grapple with the rise of fake news, it’s worth examining what happens when policymakers embrace misinformation instead of evidence…
In the summer of 2015, I left Washington, D.C. and moved to Carrboro, population 19,582, in the middle of North Carolina.…
2016 was fact-checking’s finest year [1]. No it wasn’t, it was the year of “post-truth” [2] — some preferred “post-fact” [3]…
