• Amal Khalil body being recovered

    Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Lebanese PM Condemns Israel’s Killing of Journalist Amal Khalil as ‘Clear-Cut War Crime’

    Jake Johnson

    Common Dreams

    Israel’s targeting of media professionals in the south while they are performing their professional duties is no longer a matter of isolated incidents; rather, it has become a proven pattern.

    Published On: 04/23/2026

  • Illustration of American congress being puppeteered by a mystery figure

    Democracy • Disinformation • Press Freedom

    From “Fake News” to Full Control: How the GOP Trained the Media to Serve Its Narrative

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report (03/25/2026)

    A 30-year campaign of intimidation turned watchdogs into lapdogs, and now the consequences are impossible to ignore…

    Published On: 03/31/2026

  • The Post and Courier collage

    Corruption • Journalism • Press Freedom

    A Single Newspaper Reported Investigating Trump’s Sexual Assault of a Minor

    Nick Akerman

    Legal Politics by Nick Akerman

    The Post and Courier, published a second article detailing its continuing investigation into a sexual assault allegedly perpetrated by Donald Trump.

    Published On: 03/31/2026

  • Journalists stand atop a fuel tanker as they cover a nearby fire following an overnight airstrike

    Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    Global press freedom violations during the Iran war

    CPJ Staff

    CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists

    The Committee to Protect Journalists is monitoring press freedom violations related to the ongoing military escalation between Israel, the U.S and Iran and its spillover across the Middle East, including its regional and global impact on journalists and media workers.

    Published On: 03/19/2026

  • Disinformation • Press Freedom • Violence

    Imperial Overreach (w/ Alastair Crooke)

    Chris Hedges

    The Chris Hedges Report The Chris Hedges Report

    The Iran War has just begun — but already, Iran’s military prowess, and America’s and Israel’s impulsive imperial hubris, is on full display.

    Published On: 03/07/2026

  • Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Paramount is mangling CBS — and CNN may be next

    Matt Gertz

    Media Matters

    Trump’s corruption makes capitulation a media business plan.

    Published On: 02/17/2026

  • Democracy • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Journalism Is Dead. Long Live Journalism

    Rebecca Solnit

    Meditations in an Emergency

    Right now, a host of brilliant, dedicated souls do fantastic work reporting and interpreting the news in independent newsletters, podcasts, magazines and even mainstream media. In other ways, journalism is in an age of slop and slime and decline.

    Published On: 02/16/2026

  • Democracy • ICE • Journalism • Press Freedom

    CPJ condemns arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort over Minnesota protests coverage

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    CPJ

    It is highly unusual for a journalist to be charged with a felony in relation to their reporting.

    Published On: 01/30/2026

  • Disinformation • Legal • Press Freedom • Recommended

    New Legal Documents Show Marco Rubio Targeted Students for Op-Eds and Protesting

    Jessica Washington

    The Intercept

    Rubio accused students including Mahmoud Khalil of supporting terrorism, but records unsealed after litigation by The Intercept undermine his claims.

    Published On: 01/23/2026

  • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom

    The FBI’s raid of journalist’s home was the product of decades of backsliding

    Seth Stern and Chip Gibbons

    The Guardian

    The trend of invading newsrooms, in violation of federal law, has now spread to the highest levels of the federal government

    Published On: 01/15/2026

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Recommended • Resistance

    Let’s Make the End of CPB the Start of Public Media’s Revival

    Craig Aaron

    Pressing Issues (August, 2025)

    When one door closes, they say, sometimes you have to bring a lot of people to push another one open. Let’s make a plan and meet on the sidewalk. 

    Published On: 01/07/2026

  • Corruption • Journalism • Press Freedom

    One Courageous Correspondent

    Dan Rather and Team Steady

    Steady

    What happened inside “60 Minutes” this weekend

    Published On: 12/22/2025

  • Corruption • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance

    Maria Ressa Calls for ‘Radical Collaboration’ to Combat Misinformation and Preserve Press Freedom

    Rowan Philp

    Global Investigative Journalism Network

    “Everything we knew as an industry has been destroyed. So we don’t stand still. This is a time for radical collaboration.”

    Published On: 11/21/2025

  • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The Right Funds Its Media. Can Progressive Philanthropy Meet the Moment?

    Lara Witt & Maya Schenwar

    Truthout

    Anger and bigotry are profitable models if you rewire people’s brains to be driven by fear.

    Published On: 11/19/2025

  • Artificial Intelligence • Disinformation • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The Pentagon’s Preferred Propaganda Model

    Anne Applebaum

    The Atlantic (Gift) October 27, 2025

    Modern authoritarian regimes often offer not a unified propaganda line but rather contradictory versions of reality... The cumulative effect is to leave citizens with no clear idea of what is actually happening.

    Published On: 11/16/2025

Recommended

  • illustration of the american bold eagle holding weapons and with a surveillance system coming out of its eyes
    05/04/2026

    Built to Dominate

    Palantir is designing the infrastructure of repression — and telling us why.

  • wildfire approaching suburban homes
    05/04/2026

    A Burning House, A Quiet Media, A Silenced Majority

    All parts of the media — news media, social media, entertainment media — play a decisive role in how humanity confronts the climate challenge.

  • An image of a proposed Trump passport as posted by the White House on X.
    05/01/2026

    As Trump’s Poll Numbers Fall, His Authoritarian Instincts Grow More Extreme

    Increasingly unpopular and facing a fracturing coalition, Trump is using government power to punish his critics, take political revenge, and revel in his own cruelty.

  • Barbara Kopple on January 23, 2026 in Park City, Utah
    05/01/2026

    Why Barbara Kopple’s Labor Films Remain As Urgent as Ever

    As her Oscar-winning labor documentaries return to theaters, Kopple reflects on union-busting, gig work, and her latest film on unions.

  • peaceful protesting
    04/26/2026

    Why Cole Allen Was Wrong: Peaceful Advocacy Is The Way

    There is power in peaceful protest, in litigation and in petitioning our government and holding every person in it accountable.