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Poynter receives Press Forward funding as part of project to preserve local online news content

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Why this is a pivotal week for public media and democracy

Allbritton Journalism Institute reporting fellow Violet Jira, center, listens to a lecture with others in her class in between reporting work for the NOTUS news site where they work. (Photo by Tracey Salazar/NOTUS)

What is NOTUS? Young reporters in a “teaching hospital for journalism” learn from DC veterans

President Donald Trump walks from Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House, Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

What Trump’s DOJ memo on Epstein really says and why it’s dividing his base

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, from left, meets with President Donald Trump as Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles listen in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, July 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Reporters, stop with the double-barreled questions

Hollywood films, like the Oscar-winning Spotlight, can come from journalists' notebooks.A new project strives to connect them.

Journalism and Hollywood need each other, says The IP List

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The Washington Posts’ Opinion reset: reform or retreat?

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What’s the biggest mistake you made as a first-time editor?

American flags sit on a chair during a naturalization ceremony aboard the USS Bataan during Fleet Week Miami at PortMiami, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Can the US government revoke your citizenship? What to know about denaturalization

Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara (center in red shirt) with MGNews is detained by Dekalb County Sheriff's deputies in Dekalb County, during a "No Kings" protest near Atlanta, on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Foreign journalists in the U.S. are self-censoring to protect themselves from the Trump administration

Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks to the media last month, as President Trump looks on. (AP Photo/Manuel Ceneta)

The Epstein controversy continues to divide the MAGA movement

Workers install a sign reading “Alligator Alcatraz” at the entrance to a new migrant detention facility at Dade-Collier Training and Transition facility, earlier this month in Ochopee, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Ron DeSantis claims ‘zero’ environmental impact by Alligator Alcatraz. That’s false

Computer monitors and a laptop display the X, formerly known as Twitter, sign-in page, July 24, 2023, in Belgrade, Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Why does Grok post false, offensive things on X? Here are 4 revealing incidents.

Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents as he is helped off the stage at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., last July (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

The Trump assassination attempt — one year later

A pile of newspapers at The Dallas Morning News. (Photo by Kristen Hare/Poynter)

Hearst buys the The Dallas Morning News, and 140 years of local ownership ends

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Loss of local journalists may be even worse than you think

Linda Yaccarino at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in January of 2024. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Why did Linda Yaccarino quit as CEO of X?

The LGBTQ+ pride flag flies beneath the American flag at the Stonewall National Monument, Oct. 11, 2017, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Under Trump, LGBTQ+ journalists say their work has never been more important — or exhausting

Attorney General Pam Bondi, left, listens as President Donald Trump, right, speaks during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump admin scrambles to shut down Epstein talk — but MAGA isn’t having it

Jeff Dean, now a journalist, sits in a helicopter while serving as an Army MEDEVAC crew chief. Photo courtesy of Jeff Dean.

After leaving the military, NPR’s public service mission gave us a new opportunity to serve

Search and rescue teams from Kerrville Fire Department walk past debris after flooding near the banks of the Guadalupe River in Kerrville, Texas on Tuesday, July 8, 2025. (AP)

Some viral videos of Texas flooding might be fake. Here’s how to spot them.

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Jane Pauley of ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ to receive Poynter Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism

A volunteer aids in search and rescue operations on Monday near the Guadalupe River in Ingram, Texas, after a flash flood swept through the area. (AP Photo/Eli Hartman)

More heartbreaking stories and coverage from the Texas floods

A Los Angeles Metro Police officer aims a less-lethal weapon during a protest Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)

As police face lawsuits over attacks on journalists during LA protests, experts warn press safety is disappearing across the US

A group of firefighters is seen looking through brush in the aftermath of river flooding in Texas.

Thousands saw a story that two girls were rescued from a tree in the Texas flood. It was fake.

A Camp Mystic sign is seen near the entrance to the establishment along the banks of the Guadalupe River after a flash flood swept through the area in Hunt, Texas, on Saturday. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Media coverage of the devastating Texas floods

CBS News broadcaster Edward R. Murrow warned  long ago of the problems that stem from the corporate ownership of news organizations. (AP Photo)

Wishing for a world where corporate motives didn’t clash with the sacred trust of journalism

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Meet The Examination, a nonprofit watchdog for global health

PolitiFact logo Winner of the Pulitzer Prize At Poynter

Supreme Court denies review of case by group founded by RFK Jr. against Poynter, Meta

Veteran Washington, D.C. journalists (l-r), Lori Montenegro, Chris Wallace and Tia Mitchell talk with Poynter president Neil Brown during a Community Conversation at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library. (Photo by Chris Kozlowski)

Chris Wallace, other veteran journalists talk fairness, trust and today’s media challenges at Poynter event in D.C.

President Donald Trump, shown here in a press conference last Friday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Paramount’s Trump settlement hands CBS News a black eye

This satellite image shows Red Onion State Prison in southwest Virginia. (Imagery ©2025 Airbus, CNES/Airbus, Maxar Technologies; map data ©2025 Google)

Virginia prison cites unwritten policy when declining press comment

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents escort a detained immigrant into an elevator after he exited an immigration courtroom, Tuesday, June 17, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Olga Fedorova)

When immigration data becomes political theater

The exterior of CBS Television City studio is pictured, Friday, July 3, 2020, in Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

CBS News owner Paramount settles Trump’s lawsuit over ‘60 Minutes’ interview for $16 million

Elon Musk, left, and President Donald Trump, shown here in May. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The on-again, off-again Trump-Musk relationship is back off again

Kelly McBride delivers the keynote address at the Public Media Journalists Association conference on June 27, 2025, in Kansas City. (Kate Cox/Poynter)

Public media has a bright future. We have to start acting like it.

The Coeur d'Alene Fire Dept. hangs an American flag to honor the firefighters who were killed Sunday, in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)

Grok made up a criminal past for the Idaho shooting suspect. Millions saw it on X.

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Does TikTok have a buyer?

Attendees pose for a group photo during the final day of GlobalFact 12 in Rio de Janeiro on June 27, 2025. The annual summit, hosted by the International Fact-Checking Network at the Poynter Institute, brought together around 400 fact-checkers from 80 countries to discuss the future of the industry amid rising misinformation and shifts in funding and technology. (Andressa Guerra/Poynter)

International fact-checkers seek ways to evolve amid funding changes, rise of artificial intelligence

A nurse prepares a flu shot from a vaccine vial at the Salvation Army in Atlanta, Feb. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

What is thimerosal, and why did RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel just vote against it?

In this Nov. 7, 2014 file photo, Jon Stewart poses for a portrait in promotion of his film,"Rosewater," in New York. (Victoria Will/Invision/AP)

When Jon Stewart took over ‘The Daily Show,’ satire became a trusted news source

Lara Trump, Fox News host and daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump, at the White House in March. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Fox News’ Lara Trump is eyeing a Senate run in North Carolina

Highway signage announces the impending arrival of Hurricane Milton and the evacuations zones on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024, in Port Richey, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Carlson)

The hurricane forecast cone is changing, and journalists are part of the overhaul

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth targeted a Fox reporter. The journalism community had her back

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Fact-checkers from Brazil, Indonesia and the US win 2025 Global Fact-Checking Awards

(L-R) Patricia Campos Mello, Laura Zommer and Jaime Abello offer advice for global fact-checkers during a session at GlobalFact 12 in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday. (Photo by Andressa Guerra)

Advice to fact-checkers at GlobalFact: Innovate, collaborate, uphold ethics

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Q&A: Chuck Todd says youth sports could help save local news

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A lot has changed since we created AI ethics guidelines for newsrooms. Here’s what you need to know now

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No breaking news in your Sunday print newspaper? Here’s why

President Donald Trump gestures during a press conference after the plenary session at the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

It’s another day that ends in Y as Trump attacks the media

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