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...

There's a bigger threat to books than bans: monopoly of distribution, by @mariabustillos.com. www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

“Ultimately, stopping civilians from being killed will stop journalists being killed. At the grandest political level, that’s where this has to end,” writes Jon Allsop in the @columjournreview.bsky.social. Read the newsletter👇 www.cjr.org/the_media_to... 📷: AP

Alan Berg and Charlie Kirk: The long string of anti-media violence in America, by @jonallsop.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

I wrote about that ugly spectacle in front of the White House from a few days ago, and why it's important for reporters to start coming to the defense of their colleagues. There's also a reference to wedgies. Via @columjournreview.bsky.social www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Hundreds of journalists are reporting on the former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro’s case. A fraction of them have been allowed inside the courtroom. By Carolina Abbott Galvão. www.cjr.org/analysis/wha...

The hugely popular world of online news and commentary offers a window into how young people consume current events. Read Yona TR Golding. www.cjr.org/analysis/cha...

Millions of young conservatives got their news, and political inspiration, from Charlie Kirk’s media operation. Brigham Tomco spoke with @joshuahersh.bsky.social about the profile of Kirk he wrote this summer and published Wednesday morning. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

In Laurels and Darts, a return to nature (writing). Plus: The Department of War mongers; a public utility hearing gets astroturfed; and CBS bends the knee (again), by @bgrueskin.bsky.social www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Pink slime never went away. Politically motivated “journalism” has expanded into news media at every level. Read @emilybell.bsky.social of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. www.cjr.org/analysis/pin...

Read our story on how it's felt to work at CBS News in the past year.

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-...

Tom Ley thinks more people should experience worker-owned journalism. As Defector turns five, the founding editor reflects on what he’s learned, in conversation with Riddhi Setty. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

On The Kicker, Garrett Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social thinks the press should be taking Trump’s health much more seriously. Listen in with host @joshuahersh.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Should the press follow Trump in calling the Pentagon the “Department of War”? www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

#Journalism💡: As journalism changes in the digital age of AI, do its ethics change too? @columjournreview.bsky.social finds that while not necessarily changed, the traditional list of ethics is incomplete. Journalism's core ideals have not changed, but its pace has ⬇️ www.cjr.org/analysis/tim...

Crisis Actors: On Amy Coney Barrett, the press, and “constitutional showdowns.” By @jonallsop.bsky.social www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

This popular news aggregator claims to counteract media bias by rating news outlets on political leaning and factuality. By Martina Di Licosa. www.cjr.org/analysis/the...

In Laurels and Darts, Labor Day weekend dramatics. Plus: “Advising” the opposition; fear and trembling among Texas doctors, by @bgrueskin.bsky.social www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

The White House press corps gets credit for not falling for misinformation about Trump’s health. But is it missing the story again? By @liamjscott.bsky.social www.cjr.org/analysis/tru...

One of journalism's core tenets is that while times change, principles do not. How true is this? An exploration of ethics by @sulliview.bsky.social and Julie Gerstein. www.cjr.org/new-journali...

Journalism needs new guidelines to face new challenges, by @sulliview.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/tim...

If you bought into that video of an American in a factory, time to think again. #thepsai www.cjr.org/the-syntheti...

Think that emotional support kangaroo video is real? Think again. #thepsai www.cjr.org/the-syntheti...

Matthew Shaer Still Believes in Podcasts: The creator of several popular long-form audio podcasts talks with @liamjscott.bsky.social about a format in transition. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

How to Survive the (Media) Apocalypse: Lessons from journalists who have lived through all this, by Paulina Milewska and Ksenia Mironova. www.cjr.org/analysis/rus...

What’s to be done about Israel’s killing of media workers—and other civilians—in Gaza? By @jonallsop.bsky.social www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

By law, the government and other entities are required to publish certain information in a “paper of record.” If the rules change, what will be lost? By Lucy Schiller. www.cjr.org/feature/publ...

When Dhrumil Mehta and C.J. Robinson searched "Is DC safe?", the top Google News result was a White House article. www.cjr.org/analysis/the... @dmil.bsky.social @towcenter.bsky.social

In this week’s episode of The Kicker, Hind Hassan explains the brutality of the war in Gaza. www.cjr.org/kicker/hind-...

The killing of Anas al-Sharif in Gaza may be a war crime. Could Israel be prosecuted? Joel Simon hears from legal experts. www.cjr.org/analysis/kil...

Read Jon Allsop's latest newsletter about Katrina and the Press, Twenty Years On www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Subsidizing news subscriptions could expand news access to lower income readers, writes Martin Skladany. www.cjr.org/opinion/news...

"The climate crisis, extreme-weather events, and racism are closely linked stories." @jonallsop.bsky.social revisits coverage of Hurricane Katrina, which slammed into the Gulf Coast twenty years ago today. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...