Faster speeds will enable new levels of video, AR, VR, and other _Rs that haven't even been invented yet. But news products are unlikely to benefit as much as all the other apps competing for audiences' attention.

Last year, the media industry watched a dispute heat up between the staff of Deadspin and higher-ups at G/O Media, the parent company of the sports website, when deputy editor Barry Petchesky was …

Summary: We continue our survey of the pioneering social/community sites by sitting down with David Bohnett, who, along with John Rezner, founded Geocities. David recounts how ...

With help from the CIA, Paul Engle’s writing students battled Communism and eggheaded abstraction. The damage to writing still lingers.

Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman are co-hosts of the podcast Call Your Girlfriend and co-authors of the new book Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close. “People telling you about their lives is a real privilege and honor. No one owes you to tell you

Hearst hired a belligerent leader to disrupt its magazine business. Then fired him mid-disruption. Now it’s left with — what, exactly?

Moments of social mobilization enliven and expand our political imagination. Among the things that sorely need reimagining is our technology.

On belonging, becoming, and communities with a clock.

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 […]