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The former president’s social media audience has diminished since 2021, but his posts — mostly on Truth Social — have only gotten more disturbing
Four words from Hamlet collide with multiple meanings and offer a stimulant for the brain as strong as the most sophisticated puzzle
Rodgers falsely claimed an antiretroviral drug called azidothymidine, or AZT, to treat HIV was ‘killing people’ in the 1980s
It includes $100,000 each in general operating support for more than 100 newsrooms
He had a long career, but he was most known for his horrific ordeal of being taken by Islamic militants while working in war-torn Lebanon in 1985
The Manhattan district attorney’s investigation into Trump’s business records began before Joe Biden was president
Media scholars at the University of Maryland documented the spread of local news dead spots — and unexpected vibrant areas — in that state.
A partnership between Poynter’s International Fact-Checking Network and Google and YouTube continues to support fact-checking initiatives worldwide
IndyStar sports columnist Gregg Doyel has been crushed online and accused of being creepy, sexist and worse. He’s since apologized multiple times
Experts say musicians have been accused of performing satanic rituals for decades
Bryan VanCampen of The Ithaca Times was an institution in the central New York college town of 32,000. He might have been the last of his kind.
Uri Berliner, an NPR business editor who wrote a scathing essay about his organization in another publication, no longer works at NPR.
The adult film actor denied she had an affair with Trump in a 2018 statement. She has since recanted that statement.
The firestorm caused by Uri Berliner’s critical essay in The Free Press continues to rage
As of mid-April 2024, Swift has not issued a public endorsement for the 2024 presidential election, despite social posts claiming otherwise
A once-a-week show on Wednesday at 10 p.m. Eastern? Who thought this was a good idea?
One tells the stories of entrepreneurs taking the plunge. The other focuses on the tools, techniques and trends across an evolving media landscape
The Dallas Morning News’ Tom Huang on why he’s championing this Poynter training for early-career journalists
Scientific studies have found no link between COVID-19 vaccines and sudden cardiac deaths in youth athletes.
The five-part, 467-minute ‘O.J.: Made in America’ doc is a masterpiece. I urge you to watch it.
In a televised press conference after Trump’s and Johnson’s remarks April 12, Trump made several false or misleading comments.
Simpson’s trial lured a nation to its TVs, launched a network, created enduring ethics case studies and led to numerous career breakouts.
A fact-checker’s guide to Trump’s first criminal trial: business records, hush money and a gag order
Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a payment to adult film actor Stormy Daniels.
The Gill Foundation has partnered with Poynter’s Beat Academy to train local journalists to serve as accurate, authoritative voices
Texas Congressman Dan Crenshaw blasted the former Fox News host for being a ‘click-chaser’ in a capable rant on X.
Roe v. Wade inspired legions of supporters and opponents. Before the 2022 ruling, numerous legal scholars urged the Supreme Court to uphold it.
Debates offer Americans a chance to see candidates answer tough questions, with journalistically sound pushback, about topics crucial to the country
Despite ethical concerns, nearly 70% of newsroom staffers recruited for an Associated Press survey say they’re using generative AI to create content
The IFCN supports press freedom for all fact-checkers, including FactCheck Georgia and Myth Detector
At its core, the electorate is a hiring committee for public servants. Yet very few of the best practices for hiring are followed in the process.
Willfully terminating a newborn’s life is illegal in every state and situations resulting in a fetal death in the third trimester are exceedingly rare
News networks went all-in on coverage of what was just the second total solar eclipse visible from the US during the 21st century.
Nonprofits offer hope in a dire media world. But, at too many startups, disappointingly few readers actually see the work.
129 defendants charged in the attack were charged with ‘using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer’
Kerwin Speight is leading the Poynter Producer Project, a workshop designed to enhance the skills of TV and video producers
This weekend’s games shattered ESPN’s viewership numbers for all basketball games — men and women, college and professional.
Unionized workers at the Austin American-Statesman and the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle are striking over stalled contract negotiations
CERN restarted its Large Hadron Collider after a regular winter stop for maintenance. It is unrelated to the eclipse.
If a term isn’t listed in the stylebook, its entry in Merriam-Webster will be considered AP style.
The NFL appears to be sabotaging ‘Good Morning Football,’ one of the best sports studio shows on TV. Why?
Pulitzer Prize winner Kat McGrory is one of the instructors in Poynter's upcoming Reporter's Toolkit training program
Overall violent crime and homicides are down during Biden’s presidency. Some property crimes are also down, though motor vehicle theft notably rose
Iger’s current contract runs through 2026. Then what?
It’s not just COVID — it’s measles, HPV, fake cures and more
Fact-checkers can also deconstruct political narratives to help the public
In India, fact-checkers are using AI and high-quality datasets to surface the best evidence in countering misinformation.
In the last three months, Musk has flooded X with dozens of posts that speak to a conspiracy theory about Democrats using immigrants to grab power
The 2023 State of the Fact-Checkers report surveyed 137 fact-checking organizations across at least 69 countries
Based on Musk’s history as the owner of the social network, you can see why the news has been met with skepticism.
Transparency of sources is the key to evaluating the work of any fact-checker
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