Forget about the mergers and buyouts and executive leadership for a while. The local grunts keep breaking news. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Cuomo Deepfaked Himself. You Can Too. Public figures used to be off-limits in AI-generated video. A new Tow Center analysis shows how platforms are normalizing the practice. By C.J. Robinson. www.cjr.org/analysis/cuo...

The Pentagon doubles down on muzzling reporters—and members of the press corps covering the Department of Defense say that guidelines, newly revised, remain unsignable. Read Ivan L Nagy. www.cjr.org/news/pentago...

Anup Kaphle on How Gen-Z’s Online Discontent Toppled Nepal’s Government. Read Ivan L. Nagy. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

Across the world, well-meaning laws intended to reduce online fraud and other scourges of the internet are being put to a very different use, by Nalova Akua. www.cjr.org/analysis/nig...

Against the precipitous backdrop of funding cuts to public media, low-power radio emerges as a lesser-known source of inspiration. Read Lucy Schiller. www.cjr.org/feature/publ...

How the press can rise to this moment, by Jem Bartholomew. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

International media outlets have been banned from Gaza, save for tightly controlled embeds. But the Israeli government has invited some content creators to come in and spread its message. Read Amos Barshad. www.cjr.org/feature/isra...

Bari Weiss has officially been announced as the editor in chief of CBS News. “She’s not a reporter; she’s never been in the field,” a 60 Minutes producer told Adam Piore for a recent profile of CBS. “Talk about controversies.” www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...

CJR mourns the loss of James Boylan, our founding editor. Read his essay from the magazine’s 50th anniversary issue. www.cjr.org/reports/puli...

On the “intelligence” that prompted Trump’s push into Portland. Plus: Bloomberg shows us how it’s done, and Nebraska claims some dubious drug stats. Read Laurels and Darts by @bgrueskin.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Since Reddit struck licensing deals with Google and OpenAI, its traffic—and its importance to legacy media outlets—has surged, by @klaudia.bsky.social of the @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/red...

Scenes from Immigration Court in New York’s Federal Plaza: @tilleckert.com spent two weeks reporting from the twelfth-floor hallways, where ICE agents have had charged encounters with immigrants and reporters. Interview with @riddhisetty.bsky.social www.cjr.org/getting-the-...

The Pentagon Press Gears Up for a Fight “None of us are signing this pledge,” said one reporter. Read Ivan L Nagy. www.cjr.org/news/pentago...

Elizabeth Wagmeister on the Diddy Trial, and Hard News on the Entertainment Beat: The CNN correspondent prepares for one final day covering the celebrity trial of the year. Read the interview with @liamjscott.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

It’s true! I’m leaving @columjournreview.bsky.social after eight incredible years, seven of them atop the newsletter. It’s been an unbelievable ride, and I am so grateful for the trust they’ve placed in me. Going forward, I’m gonna continue contributing to The New Yorker, among other things I’m sure

A New Gaza Rage Machine—with Polish Origins, by Ivan Nagy. www.cjr.org/analysis/gaz...

Thanks for everything, @jonallsop.bsky.social. Read his send-off newsletter: www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

"If CJR stands for anything, it’s that the media reevaluating how it covers society can be a sign of strength." @jonallsop.bsky.social takes stock in his penultimate newsletter. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

A byline on a big scoop last weekend looked both familiar and strange — and it tells us a lot about what Jeff Bezos and Will Lewis have done to the Washington Post this year. (And OK, maybe I did compare the new editorial board to “congealed Cream of Wheat.”) www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

On Trial for Journalism in Kentucky: Two months after their arrests while covering a protest, a pair of local reporters face criminal charges. By @liamjscott.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/news/madelin...

In Laurels and Darts, WaPo’s self-inflicted talent exodus. Plus: In Hawai‘i, it pays to get probed; YOLO journalism at the University of Georgia; and Trump’s bigly error-ridden lawsuit. Read @bgrueskin.bsky.social www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

🔴 HAPPENING NOW: Join us for a conversation exploring new ideas to defend press freedom in Gaza, co-sponsored by @freedom.press, @columjournreview.bsky.social, and @columbiajournalism.bsky.social’s Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism. Watch live:

Join us today for a conversation exploring new ideas to defend press freedom in Gaza, co-sponsored by @freedom.press, @columjournreview.bsky.social, and the Simon and June Li Center for Global Journalism. 🗓️ 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. EDT Save the link to watch the event live: www.youtube.com/live/LsAbOx4...

NEW: I interviewed 24 journalists about their interactions in 2025 w/ ICE & Border Protection. What they together described: unanswered #FOIA requests, a functionally useless media office and a nearly impenetrable black box of info. In @columjournreview.bsky.social: www.cjr.org/analysis/ice...

Aaron Parnas, the top “news” Substacker, is making his own journalism rules—and taking dark money, by @lizskalka.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/feature/aaro...

Join us from 6 - 8pm ET tonight for a discussion of Urgent Ideas for Defending Press Freedom in Gaza, moderated by @azmatzahra.bsky.social. Watch the event live at: www.youtube.com/live/LsAbOx4...

Where the White House is Leading Us with TikTok, by @tlysik.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/tik...

Local ABC Affiliates Are Getting Slammed, by Carolina Abbott Galvão and @riddhisetty.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/news/local-a...

The historian Fara Dabhoiwala says absolute free speech never really existed. The author of a timely new book argues that freedom of speech has always been a “weaponized slogan.” Read the interview with Carolina Abbott Galvão www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

News organizations are increasingly concerned about the risk of violence. It's time to conduct a risk assessment. Read @joelsimonsays.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/sec...

The Creative Approach Behind Penske’s AI Lawsuit: Some legal experts think it has a chance to succeed where others before it have failed. Read @riddhisetty.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/pen...

What dueling song contests in Europe and Russia have to say about public broadcasting and geopolitics. Read @jonallsop.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

ICE May Be Breaking the Law to Stonewall Reporters: Nearly two dozen reporters and other Freedom of Information Act requesters say they are getting the brush-off. Read Dave Levinthal. www.cjr.org/analysis/ice...

The boundaries of free speech have always been contested. That’s not what’s going on this time. Read @jonallsop.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

On a new Kicker, @ellereeve.bsky.social on the Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect’s Inscrutable Memes. The CNN correspondent, who specializes in fringe and internet subcultures, on how to make sense of the killing. With host @joshuahersh.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

When you talk about motive and ideology for people in fringe or extreme movements, you have to start by recognizing how murky it can get. I spoke to @ellereeve.bsky.social about Kirk, the man who shot him, and covering dark corners of the internet for The Kicker www.cjr.org/kicker/elle-...

The suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show was just the latest result of an ongoing conservative effort to stamp out unfavorable voices, by Amos Barshad. www.cjr.org/analysis/abc...

Aaron Parnas debuted on TikTok posting about pizza toppings and hair loss. Now, at 26, he's pivoted into journalism, landing interviews with leading Dems and becoming one of Substack's most popular creators—while accepting dark money. New @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/feature/aaro...

Plus: --Reuters' scoops on the Lisa Cook/Bill Pulte story. --The WSJ editor's note on its Kirk piece. -- And some excellent reporting on a proposed Arkansas prison. via @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Fed Up. Plus: The Kirk coverage shows what’s broken about breaking news. And Arkansas ditches parole, but discovers… other problems. Read this week's Laurels and Darts by @bgrueskin.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

In a shock development - AI companies are failing to benchmark what matters in newsrooms. More excellent work from our Tow Center research team @klaudia.bsky.social and @aisvarya17.bsky.social

For the past year, journalists at CBS News have been up against extraordinary pressure. The network reached a tipping point. Read the report by Adam Piore. www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...

The performance tests used by AI companies don’t measure what matters in the newsroom. By @klaudia.bsky.social and @aisvarya17.bsky.social for @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/jou...

Aaron Parnas, the top “news” Substacker, is making his own journalism rules—and taking dark money, by @lizskalka.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/feature/aaro...

Just a few huge companies control *all the ebooks* including the ebooks you borrow from your library There's a way past this: selling ebooks directly to libraries. We're working on this at @flaminghydra.com www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

Vetting, “transgender ideology,” and the race to fill a breaking-news void in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, by Ivan L Nagy. www.cjr.org/analysis/liv...

Lydia Namubiru @namlyd.bsky.social on How to Tell the Story of Sudan: The editor in chief of The Continent on how African writers cover Africa differently, with @moniango.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

Vetting, “transgender ideology,” and the race to fill a breaking-news void in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death, by Ivan L Nagy. www.cjr.org/analysis/liv...

Were protests against a social media ban dystopian, utopian, or something more complicated? By @jonallsop.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...