Amid media failures and flaws, five things to celebrate • Plus: What advice would you give to student journalists? I share mine.

America has tragically changed, but journalism is still stuck in old ways • The swift slide into authoritarianism should have been a five-alarm fire for the media

Trust in mainstream media is at rock bottom. Can it be fixed? • Why so many news consumers are turning to individual voices and away from institutions

Do better, Big Journalism. Please do much, much better • Low points from the New York Times, the BBC, the Washington Post and the New Yorker. And some highs.

Three lessons in unethical media behavior • Plus: Some moments that made me proud to be a journalist

Two opposing media takes on Epstein's 'lost world' • Plus, I correct a factual error I made on a video podcast with Paul Krugman

Why the media (not just MAGA) is freaked out over Mamdani • Plus: Midterms success for Democrats must avoid the false choice between affordability and opposing Trump

Extra! A look at election-coverage highs and lows • A sampling of media wins and flops, following Tuesday's "bloody nose" for Trump

Trump just loves the revamped CBS. Here's the ugly backstory. • Plus: "Stealth editing' at the Washington Post; and an opportunity lost at the New York Times

The Washington Post shamelessly defends Trump's odious ballroom • Plus: The New York Times (weakly) explains why it didn't put a "No Kings" story on Page One

‘Who cares?’ About 7 million people, that’s who • Media coverage of Saturday’s ‘No Kings’ protests included the New York Times’s shrug

The media is largely ignoring the trauma of millions. Here's why. • Plus: Watch George Stephanopolous pushes JD Vance with follow-up questions, cringe at Bari Weiss's pep talk to CBS journalists; and more

'Partisan bickering' is a media frame that fails the public • The government shutdown is producing an all-too-familiar barrage of performative neutrality

How to turn Jimmy Kimmel's return into a free-speech juggernaut • Plus, two cringe-inducing examples of what the New York Times should stop doing.

Legacy media's destructive addiction to describing Trump's 'winning' • Plus: Why disillusioned Democrats are abandoning traditional news outlets

What gets you fired — or celebrated — on cable news? • An answer in four parts: Matthew Dowd, Scott Jennings, Jesse Watters, and Brian Kilmeade

And the bad-take award goes to ... • Plus: My talk with Miami Herald reporter and Epstein expert Julie K, Brown

Don't be a 'political hobbyist.' Here's how to harness your power. • Plus, three eye-rolling media goofs (or actual travesties) of the week

Cash handouts, headline accusations, and Trump as 'Big City mayor' • Three pieces ripe for public-editor scrutiny — if only

Heartbreak (but also hope) at the still-essential Washington Post • And my question for you about Trump's "summit" with Putin

Bring back the public editor! (No, I don't want the job.) • Plus: Readers come through with examples of bad headlines; and a bit of welcome inspiration.

American Crisis exclusive: The 'Media Capitulation Index' • A sweeping report — with rankings — on the decline of independence in our corporatized media

How did American media and Republican politicians lose their spines? • Amid capitulation and cowardice, the Wall Street Journal showed something rare: Courage under pressure.