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Opinion | Aaron Rodgers keeps talking. And ESPN keeps handing him the mic.

Aaron Rodgers can say whatever he wants. The question is why Pat McAfee and ESPN keep giving him a platform.

August 5, 2026

I taught prison reporting because I know how bad coverage can hurt

After watching prison coverage harm my family, I set out to teach journalism students to cover incarceration with more humanity

August 5, 2026

Victoria Valenzuela

What happens in the final weeks before an execution? These reporters were inside the room.

The journalists behind ‘The Last 12 Weeks’ earned extraordinary access to a death penalty defense team — and faced difficult ethical choices

July 22, 2026

Amaris Castillo

Opinion | Why do journalists do that?

Readers ask us media questions all the time. Now we're opening the floor.

June 18, 2026

After COVID, audiences demand less panic, more practical information from Ebola coverage

Audiences reject both scary stories and stories that dismiss their concerns

May 21, 2026

More immigration data is available than ever. Journalists should proceed with caution.

New tracking sites make it easier to follow immigration and enforcement, but journalists still need to verify what they find

April 29, 2026

Opinion | What we learned from a failed Nota News experiment

From Josh Brandau, CEO of Nota

April 16, 2026

Opinion | As immigration enforcement reshapes communities, many local stories go untold

In Northern Kentucky, local newsrooms are missing stories about fear, lost business and disrupted routines. Some of those stories may never be told.

March 23, 2026

David S. Rotenstein

How to cover child welfare — and not just the system

3 takeaways from Poynter’s ‘Covering Child Welfare’ course on centering kids and families

February 26, 2026

The FBI’s search of a Washington Post reporter’s home is rare — and part of a growing pattern

Press freedom experts said the legally dubious search escalates a troubling trend stretching back years

January 20, 2026

How journalists should cover ICE’s fatal shooting of a civilian in Minneapolis

Editors face high-stakes ethical decisions on video, transparency and protest coverage — and those choices will be closely scrutinized

January 7, 2026

Opinion | The Poynter stories readers talked about — and we couldn’t stop thinking about — in 2025

Classified group chats. Shocking moves. Generational divides. Press freedom. The myths that shape journalism. These were the stories that stood out.

December 26, 2025

Why PolitiFact couldn’t name just one Lie of the Year

The falsehoods that defined 2025 were widespread, consequential and harder to separate from power

December 19, 2025

Opinion | Why I’m begging TV showrunners to stop writing journalists as villains

I will stop shouting at the TV screen when journalists are portrayed with all their virtues and vices — not as caricatures

November 25, 2025

Roy Peter Clark

An Albany reporter’s steady questioning led a murder suspect to confess on camera

When a tense interview took an unexpected turn, veteran CBS6 reporter Greg Floyd relied on his calm and experience to draw out the truth

October 27, 2025

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