On Tuesday, 153 of the most prominent journalists, authors, and writers, including J. K. Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Brooks, published an open call for civility in Harper’s Magazine. They ...

Screenshot from the editor’s note appended to the Wall Street Journal’s initial coverage of the bullet’s inscriptions. Photo of Wall Street Journal corporate headquarters by John Wisniewski via Flickr ...

From left to right: An early Federal Communications Commission licensing card given to KDKA; early Radio Corporation of America speaker; Rufus P. Turner at his radio; excerpt of Kerner Commission’s ...

Inserted between the pages of the Texas Observer’s Nov./Dec. edition, mailed to readers two months late, was a letter explaining that delivery had been delayed to put together a special, ...

This piece is a part of our series “The Food Media Reckoning” — a collection of reporting, essays, and criticism about the holes that still exist in food media — and what its future could look like ...

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Residents of Morristown, N.J. gather with journalists at a 2017 Free Press event to discuss how to strengthen local news. Photo courtesy of Timothy Karr, illustration work by Erik Rodriguez. This is ...

The logo of The 51st overlaid onto a photo of the newsroom’s six co-founders. From top left clockwise: Natalie Delgadillo, Abigail Higgins, Colleen Grablick, Maddie Poore, Eric Falquero, and Teresa ...

In late January, the Washington D.C. Court of Appeals moved to reinstate Felicia Sonmez’s lawsuit against the Washington Post, finding some merit to Sonmez’s claims that the paper illegally ...

This piece is part of the column series ‘The Case for Movement Journalism‘. Read other column installments here. These purposes for journalism make up a kind of draft “theory of change” for movement ...

The Washington Post dismissed long-time opinion columnist Karen Attiah last month after she posted on Bluesky about the racist double standards around Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk’s killing and ...

This story originally appeared in Molloy’s newsletter, The Present Age, and is republished here with permission. A new Media Matters report confirms what many of us have suspected for years: the right ...