The Business of Covering Monkeys: Primate prevarication in the Deep South. Plus, the immigration crackdown in Chicago, and the wonderfully wonky world of Bolts. Read Laurels and Darts by @bgrueskin.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

X Is Using AI Fact-Checkers: Eight AI bots contribute about 10 percent of the platform’s “Community Notes.” Read CJ Robinson. www.cjr.org/analysis/x-t...

More than three-quarters of teens surveyed have negative views of the press, a new study finds. Read Carolina Abbott Galvão, www.cjr.org/analysis/bia...

A new generation of journalists emerges from the Amazon rainforest, just in time for COP30. Read Adriana Carranca. www.cjr.org/feature/repo...

Equator promises to move beyond a Western-centric perspective. Can it? Read Jem Bartholomew. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

In County Highway, a broadsheet whose editor calls it an aesthetic object as much as a portal for information, RFK Jr. finds a home: "Finally an article that let me speak about my passion, falconry, rather than another paper trying to hunt me down.” Read Lucy Schiller. www.cjr.org/feature/rfk-...

Legacy Papers Have Been Weird and Hostile Toward Zohran Mamdani. The New York City mayoral candidate promises radical change that editorial boards don’t want, even if voters do. Read @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/leg...

A new generation of journalists emerges from the Amazon rainforest, just in time for COP30. Read Adriana Carranca. www.cjr.org/feature/repo...

The ICE detention of Sami Hamdi closely follows the deportation of Mario Guevara. Read @aidaalami.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

The BBC is making a big play in the United States. Can it find a market? Read Joel Simon. www.cjr.org/analysis/bbc...

60 Minutes of Soft Soap: Some puffery at CBS News. Plus: Radley Balko reads the receipts, New Yorkmagazine thieving from the New York Times, and a “high-ranking dumb” drug bust. Read @bgrueskin.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

AI browsers like OpenAI's Atlas and Perplexity's Comet have ways of getting around paywalls and crawler restrictions to access publisher content. And sometimes, if they can't access an article, they'll just recreate it using 'digital breadcrumbs'

How AI Browsers Sneak Past Blockers and Paywalls, by Aisvarya Chandrasekar and Klaudia Jaźwińska of the @towcenter.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/how...

How a beloved soccer team’s TV channel gave itself over to outlandish theories and populist motifs: “It’s the currency of our age." Read Amos Barshad. www.cjr.org/analysis/rea...

Even after the ceasefire, Israel has blocked members of the press from entering Gaza. The country has said “there will come a time soon” when journalists flood in—but preemptively cast doubt on the story they might cover. By Amos Barshad. www.cjr.org/news/israel-...

Why Isaac Chotiner doesn’t mind the “gotcha” label, by @liamjscott.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

Ellison characterizes his approach by paraphrasing Genghis Khan: “It is not sufficient that I succeed. Everyone else must fail.” Read Jem Bartholomew: www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

"Why a magazine, as opposed to a podcast series?" Read Carolina Abbott Galvão: www.cjr.org/feature/sign...

Did the No Kings demonstrations receive enough media attention? Read @riddhisetty.bsky.social at www.cjr.org/analysis/did...

Read this week's Laurels and Darts by @bgrueskin.bsky.social www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

"The American media is not made for this moment," HuffPost senior White House correspondent @svdate.bsky.social tells CJR. "And we, unfortunately, collectively have not figured out a way to convey the seriousness of it to our audience." With Ivan L Nagy. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

On The Kicker @sulliview.bsky.social joins @joshuahersh.bsky.social to talk about what it means for journalism ethics to evolve with the times—and how she views questions around transparency, media bias, and whether the public editor role might make its return. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Meta’s Ban on Political Ads in Europe Unsettles Newsrooms, by Marine Doux. www.cjr.org/analysis/met...

NY1's Errol Louis has moderated more than sixty debates. “You could say this race is like all the other ones I’ve covered in that something truly unusual has happened,” he said. Read Amos Barshad. www.cjr.org/feature/ny1-...

For more than a decade, Bassil Mikdadi has tracked the fortunes of the Palestinian national soccer team, which endures despite ruined stadiums, starvation, and war. Read Amos Barshad. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

In Los Angeles, reporters navigate how to protect sources while telling their stories, by @riddhisetty.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/how...

Proximity to power is not the only way—or even the best way—to report on government, by @aidaalami.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

@columjournreview.bsky.social appoints Betsy Morais CC '11 as Editor in Chief, effective November 1, 2025. Morais, who has been with CJR for more than seven years, most recently served as Acting Editor, guiding the publication through a period of ambitious reporting and in-depth analysis.

I wrote about the breadth and scale of media consolidation under Trump and how it tests our global definitions of monopoly and anti trust regulations ..(don’t feel bad for Bari, she’s fine )

FCC chairman Brendan Carr is clearing the way for Trump and corporate broadcasters to control the airwaves, by Kyle Paoletta. www.cjr.org/analysis/bre...

Introducing CJR’s incoming editor in chief, Betsy Morais. www.cjr.org/editors-note...

(War) crime and (no) punishment. Plus: Quitting in defense of the First Amendment in Laurels and Darts by Paul Farhi. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Pulitzer-winning natsec reporter James Risen calls the Pentagon press corps' eviction "an opportunity to be more adversarial. You've got to write tough stories to convince people to take you seriously." Read Ivan L. Nagy. www.cjr.org/news/the-pen...

Bari Weiss Isn’t Capturing the Media. She’s Being Captured. Read @emilybell.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/analysis/bar...

“It's like college move out day,” a member of the Pentagon press corps told CJR. Some reporters “have been sitting there for twenty years. It's pretty depressing." Read Ivan L Nagy. www.cjr.org/news/the-pen...

CJR welcomes Betsy Morais as our new Editor in Chief! journalism.columbia.edu/news/morais-...

For new NPR editor in chief Thomas Evans, the loss of federal funding is either a brutal blow or an opportunity. Read the interview with Carolina Abbott Galvão. www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

A guide for taking immigration stories beyond walls both physical and mental, by @jeanguerre.bsky.social. www.cjr.org/feature/the-...

Postal Service Delays Are Making the Already Tight Newspaper Business Even Harder. Read @riddhisetty.bsky.social www.cjr.org/analysis/pos...

Weiss Goes Mainstream: The anti-woke crusader takes the helm at CBS News. Read Jem Bartholomew. www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

On the Kicker, @franciagarciah.bsky.social and @slulay2.bsky.social of @blockclubchi.bsky.social on ICE’s Chicago surge and the attacks on journalists. Listen in with host @joshuahersh.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

In a new survey from the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association, 85 percent of respondents say their reporting has been held to a “higher standard of neutrality.” By Carolina Abbott Galvão. www.cjr.org/news/arab-mi...

Dispute over plans for MediaFest, the nation’s largest student journalism conference, reflects the polarization of the news industry that awaits them. Read Carolina Abbott Galvão. www.cjr.org/feature/stud...

Chicago’s @blockclubchi.bsky.social Is Ready for ICE: The independent digital startup has been on the ground covering ICE’s surge and the attacks on journalists. Listen in with host @joshuahersh.bsky.social. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

A Reporter Was on a Flotilla Bound for Gaza. Israel Detained Him—and Some Twenty Other Members of the Press. Read Aida Alami. www.cjr.org/news/reporte...

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...