• Corruption • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The Real Bias Monitor at CBS is Donald Trump

    Seth Stern

    The Guardian

    The hiring of Kenneth Weinstein as an ombudsman hands the US president a seat at the editors’ desk

    Published On: 09/12/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    Six Impossible Things That Might Save Journalism

    Craig Aaron

    Pressing Issues

    It’s time to dream up a media future that millions of people will fight for.

    Published On: 09/09/2025

  • Democracy • Global • Journalism • Press Freedom

    America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic

    The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.

    Published On: 09/05/2025

  • Democracy • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Slain L.A. Times columnist Ruben Salazar matters more than ever, 55 years later

    Gustavo Arellano

    L.A. Times

    No one was around when I finally got to Salazar’s niche, in a section of the cemetery called the Alcove of Time. A simple bronze plaque included the accent over the “e” in “Rubén,” which his Times byline never had. Instead of Spanish wine, I brought a flask of mezcal — I don’t think he would have minded the stiffer drink in this 2025.

    Published On: 08/29/2025

  • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The White House Is Its Own Media Outlet

    Dhrumil Mehta and C.J. Robinson

    Columbia Journalism Review

    The Trump administration is publishing articles that are top-ranked on Google News.

    Published On: 08/28/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    What Bob McChesney Taught Me

    Craig Aaron

    Pressing Issues

    “If you act like change for the better is impossible, you guarantee it will be impossible.”

    Published On: 08/19/2025

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Will journalism become impossible in the U.S.?

    Mark Jacob

    Stop the Presses

    Trump’s war on the free press follows foreign dictators’ playbook.

    Published On: 08/04/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended

    A More Perfect Media: Saving America’s Fourth Estate

    Timothy Karr

    freepress.net

    Saving America’s Fourth Estate from Billionaires, Broligarchy and Trump

    Published On: 07/31/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    The Paramount Skydance Sale Makes the Case for Public Media

    Laura Flanders

    Laura Flanders Substack

    We must radically recommit to public media before every newsroom, every voice, is up for sale to the highest bidder or the ruling party’s favorite mogul. The time is now.

    Published On: 07/25/2025

  • Cyber Security • Europe • Featured • Journalism • Original • Press Freedom • Resistance • Safety • Social Media • Threat Management

    The Resistance Will Be Reported

    Ron Williams

    Resistance Media

    The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.

    Published On: 07/24/2025

  • Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom

    AFP Journalists’ Union Warns That Its Reporters Are at Risk of Starvation in Gaza

    Haaretz

    Haaretz

    'Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us can recall seeing a colleague die of hunger. We refuse to see them die,' the French news agency's journalists union said.

    Published On: 07/22/2025

  • Press Freedom

    Colbert and Capitulation

    Jon Passantino

    Status

    The optics are hard to ignore: a top-rated show, led by one of Trump’s most vocal critics, axed just weeks after Paramount settled a lawsuit with Trump and began courting conservative media figures for leadership roles in the post-merger company.

    Published On: 07/19/2025

  • Democracy • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    Whither Colbert? Whither Democracy

    Jeff Jarvis

    Medium

    Mass media are dead: corrupted, complicit, malign, worthless

    Published On: 07/19/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended

    Colbert’s Termination is a Corporate Assault on Dissent

    Jeff Cohen

    Common Dreams

    In recent months, we’ve seen one media conglomerate after another offer what amounted to multimillion-dollar bribes to Trump by settling frivolous Trump lawsuits that these companies could not possibly have lost in court.

    Published On: 07/19/2025

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    ‘Devastating’: US Public Broadcasters Condemn Trump Cuts

    Maya Yang

    The Guardian

    PBS chief says cuts package ‘goes against the will of the American people’ as smaller outlets could face total closure

    Published On: 07/18/2025

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