Opinion | Media coverage of Wednesday night’s plane crash in Washington, D.C.
CNN, as it always does during big stories, immediately called upon dozens of correspondents, contributors and experts to go over the grim news
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Stymied by a federal health communications pause, journalists worry about what comes next
The pause has potentially left the public in the dark about updates to scientific research and public health issues like flu outbreaks
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Kennedy minimized and denied controversial things he had said in podcasts, conferences or TV interviews, even though the senators quoted him directly
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Opinion | The new White House press secretary debuts with bluster and a bang
Karoline Leavitt took digs at the press, announced a seat for ‘new media’ and seemed to reestablish the combative dynamic of the last Trump presidency
January 29, 2025
Opinion | Meta’s user fact-checking is just ‘window dressing’ without a commitment to truth
In the latest episode of ‘The Poynter Report Podcast,’ IFCN director Angie Drobnic Holan points to X’s fact-checking system as a cautionary tale
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Opinion | It’s a new day at CBS with a reimagined ‘CBS Evening News’
It’s risky to change an established newscast, but the ‘Evening News’ has trailed ABC’s ‘World News Tonight’ and NBC’s ‘Nightly News’ for years
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