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NPR CEO Katherine Maher

Uri Berliner’s Resignation Is the Latest Example of Dissent In Newsrooms

Newsrooms are split on how to cover the most pressing political issues of our time.
By Nhari Djan

Ben Smith’s Semafor Launches an A.I. News Product With OpenAI and Microsoft

Semafor is the latest news organization to play with A.I. as the industry cautiously navigates the technology. 
By Nhari Djan
The Messenger founder Jimmy Finkelstein and journalist Ben Smith.

How Jimmy Finkelstein’s The Messenger Burned $50M In Less Than a Year

The short-lived digital news startup cost $50 million to launch.
By Nhari Djan

Sinclair Chairman David Smith Buys The Baltimore Sun in Private Deal

By Sissi Cao
Rupert Murdoch

Murdoch’s New York Post Is Launching a ‘Page Six’ Video Studio

By Nhari Djan
A collage of a book cover and a man's headshot

The Real-Life ‘Succession’ Story of 1950s Nepo Baby Rupert Murdoch

By Cat Woods

From Sports to Politics to Telescopes, Michael Powell Brings Heart and Shoe Leather

By William P. Hogue
A copy of Tuesday's New York Daily News sits on the shelf of a newsstand, September 5, 2017 in New York City.

Journalists Are Fleeing the New York Daily News Under Its New Owner Alden Global Capital

By Courtney Vinopal
Palm Beach Post newspapers are seen for sale on August 05, 2019 in Palm Beach, Florida.

Gannett Has Laid Off at Least 80 Newspaper Employees Around the Country

By Courtney Vinopal

Why Business Journalism Serves Wall Street, not Main Street: A Q&A with Christopher Roush

By James Ledbetter
A pedestrian walks past a Chicago Sun-Times newspaper box.

How Union Stakes in Ailing Papers Like the Chicago Sun-Times May Keep Them Alive

By Marick Masters
The slippery slope of the oligarchy media model August 10, 2017 8.58pm EDT Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and chair of the Emerson Collective.

The Slippery Slope of the Oligarchy Media Model

By Rodney Benson and Victor Pickard
Play every day.

My Top Seven Rules for a Successful Life

By Marcus Geduld
The censorship board. George Creel is seated at far right.

How Woodrow Wilson’s Propaganda Machine Changed American Journalism

By Christopher B. Daly
Is Eddie Murphy "delirious" about social media? Definitely not.

Eddie Murphy’s Media Diet Will Make You Extremely Jealous

By John Bonazzo
Missoula Independent

Fit to Print: Campus Journalists Face Down Those Who Want to Stop the Presses

By Matthew Kassel
The New York Times

The New York Times Website Turns 20 Today

By John Bonazzo
A television camerawoman takes video of the new Al Jazeera America television broadcast studio on West 34th Street August 16, 2013 in New York. Al Jazeera America, which will launch on August 20, will have its headquarters in New York. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)

The Death of ‘Huffpost Live’: How to Fail at Video

By Jeff Jarvis
Spencer Platt is shot on October 8, 2015 for the New York Observer. PHOTO: Kaitlyn Flannagan for Observer

A Day in the Life of Spencer Platt, Getty Images’ Lensman in New York

By Matthew Kassel
Janet Jackson. (Photo: Getty Images)

Janet Jackson Can’t Control the News

By Matthew Kassel
Music Mart Fundraiser for Lou Gehrig's Disease

Daily Newspapers Need Music Writers Now More Than Ever

By Tim Sommer
SAN FRANCISCO - OCTOBER 26: Newspapers are displayed at a newsstand October 26, 2009 in San Francisco, California. A report by the Audit Bureau of Circulations reveals that the average daily circulation of U.S. newspapers fell 10.6 percent in the six month period between April-September compared to one year ago. The San Francisco Chronicle had the largest decline with a drop of 25.8 percent to 251,782. The Wall Street Journal surpassed USA Today as the number one selling paper in the U.S. after USA Today had its circulation drop more than 17 percent to 1.90 million. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Newspaper Death Spiral Made Plain in One Chart

By Jeff Jarvis
The Fat Jew

Financial Times Readers Bemoan Downmarket Lunch With ‘The Fat Jewish’

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke
A person reads on November 1, 2011 in Paris an issue of Satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo to be published on November 2, 2011, whose cover features prophet Mohammed. "In order fittingly to celebrate the Islamist Ennahda's win in Tunisia and the NTC (National Transitional Council) president's promise that sharia would be the main source of law in Libya, Charlie Hebdo asked Mohammed to be guest editor," said a statement. AFP PHOTO MARTIN BUREAU (Photo credit should read MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images)

Ill-Informed, Incurious, Intemperate, Ignoble and Ultimately Illiberal

By Dale Peck
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