The money, spread over three years and the entire globe, is welcome — but this is PR, not a product.

Noted New York Times reporter has racked up a number of notable scoops, along with some misfiring stories.

It's Google's biggest financial commitment to the news industry in its history.

People talk about "turning points" in life. It never felt like so at the moment.

One of Twitter's summer experiments — to get people to read news articles before retweeting them — will be rolled out to the rest of the platform "very soon." Twitter announced the experiment in June in an effort to "promote informed discussion", as one of a few projects …

This week’s interview is with the one and only Kara Swisher. (If you don’t know, now you know). We talked about what she’s been up to over the past few months; “Sway,” the new interview show she’s hosting with New York Times Opinion; and finding the right medium for your message. Enjoy!

Sarah Jeong talks to Newton about the details of his deal, subscription journalism, and what makes email such a good media format

We’re launching a new website in October.

How the pro-Trump conspiracy grew and its effect on the current political climate.

tbh I didn't even notice it was gone...

This week, PJ looks into a theory circling the internet about who might be behind QAnon. The investigation takes him back to the beginning of the QAnon scam, and to the message board trolls who started it.

In San Francisco, Becca Andrews pulled the filing for a 1976 Supreme Court decision that granted abortion providers the power to sue for their patients’ well-being. In Chicago, Michael O’Loughlin headed to an archive to pore over records documenting the lives of gay Catholics during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s. And in […]

This is the second installment of a multi-part series designed to help you familiarize yourself with the tools used to make visual, data-driven essays.

This is the third installment of a multi-part series designed to help you familiarize yourself with the tools used to make visual, data-driven essays.

Like any commercial publisher, Ramsey Kanaan wants to make money and have as many people as possible read his books. But he says his company, PM Press, can do both by selling his books to the public and to libraries for lending – either in print or digitally. While most publishers only license ebooks to […]

In the worlds of journalism and publishing, it’s fairly common for the wealthy to attempt to shut down reporting with legal threats. For those publishing on large platforms with plenty of resources, such challenges can be a massive headache. For independent writers and publishers, on the other hand…

For years, news publishers have been clamoring for Facebook, Google and Apple to pay for the news content that gets distributed through their services. Well, they have gotten what they wished for—sort of. And it’s troubling news.

Listeners in 10 regions will hear local news after national stories thanks to geo-targeting technology being used in a new way.

In early June, as Black Lives Matter activists protested police brutality and killings, the editors of The Maneater, the University of Missouri’s student newspaper, gathered on a Zoom call to discuss their own part in the nationwide reckoning with racial injustice. Like many other student groups, The Maneater had recently published an Instagram post expressing […]

Inside music journalism post-2008 recession, and how media consumption in the 21st century offers a road map for the continuation of the once-robust medium.

The global pandemic is accelerating the collapse of independent music journalism.

The press hasn’t broken its most destructive habits when it comes to covering Donald Trump.

A Case Study: What to do when you have an expensive stock and no moats

What if we aren’t being accelerated into a cyberpunk future so much as thrown into some fantastical premodern past?

The story of contemporary Colorado journalism can be told in two acts. In the first, the Rocky Mountain News and the Denver Post are locked in one of the late twentieth century’s wildest newspaper wars, which ended in 2009 with the Rocky’s demise. In the second, a fragmented media landscape of upstart publications is galvanized […]

This week’s interview is with Diana Moskovitz, who’s the investigations editor (and a co-owner — more on that in a sec!) over at the newly launched Defector Media (aka, the new & improved Deadspin). We talked about the outlet’s worker-owned model, the challenges of launching during a pandemic, and what it feels like to build a newsroom from the ground up.

A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive – Max Read

Walter Cronkite once said that “journalism is what we need to make democracy work.” He was absolutely right, which is why today’s assault on journalism by Wall Street, billionaire businessmen, Silicon Valley, and Donald Trump presents a crisis—and why we must take concrete action. Real journalism is different from the gossip, punditry, and clickbait that […]

It can’t stand in for due process.