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Francis applauded the journalistic pursuit of truth and called for teaching people “how to discern, evaluate and understand ...
Respondents to a University of Florida survey reported facing financial and political pressure in their pursuit of accountability journalism ...
That was the day that Patrick, then FCC chairman, and his colleagues unanimously voted to repeal the Fairness Doctrine, a policy that had mandated broadcast networks to fairly present differing ...
Only 33% of Americans say the media is ‘completely’ free to report the news, according to a new Pew Research Center survey ...
In ‘Medicine River,’ journalist Mary Annette Pember confronts the legacy of boarding schools and the trauma passed down through generations ...
Before the bundles, the podcasts and the 10 million digital subscribers, there was a $250 million loan with a sky-high interest rate ...
I like to break my books up into the smallest possible units. “Writing Tools” set the standard: 50 chapters at about 1,000 words per chapter. (Total: 50,000-plus words.) Let’s do the math again: 200 ...
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s ‘Behind the Gun’ project blends empathy, complexity and scale to reach audiences across the gun debate divide ...
This article was originally published by Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative and is republished here with permission. The old formula went like this: Journalism undergrads ...
In the summer of 2020, Annelise Pierce stood amid a group of around 500 protesters, police and militia members in front of a local courthouse in Shasta County, California. Members of the 181,000 ...
Before pausing country-by-country tariffs for 90 days, President Donald Trump repeatedly said tariffs were bringing in immense revenue. At an April 8 executive order signing, Trump said, “We ...
Thank you to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for their support of Poynter’s online learning platform since its founding in 2005. The nonprofit Poynter Institute is a leading instructor of ...