Laurels and Darts: Slippery slop.
CJRby Susie Banikarim·28 Aug 2026
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On Monday, when the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece from Stanley Druckenmiller, Paul Gigot, the editorial page editor, hoped it would make news.
Polymarket calls itself News 2.0. Its AI is feeding users fabrications.
CJRby Tory Lysik·27 Aug 2026
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Polymarket, a betting website where users can place wagers on current events, publishes AI-generated news timelines on its website that are saturated with...
Should the press “run toward” AI?
CJRby Jem Bartholomew·27 Aug 2026
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Since it was first published, in 2001, The Elements of Journalism, by Tom Rosenstiel and Bill Kovach, has schooled fledgling reporters in their craft by...
How a summer of protests upended India’s media.
CJRby Tannu Jain·25 Aug 2026
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. It began with a leak. On May 12, the government of India announced that, before a national medical-school exam was administered, some of the questions had...
What’s the matter with the British press?
CJRby Jem Bartholomew·24 Aug 2026
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. It should be clear by now to anyone paying attention that the media coverage of Jason Arday—a forty-one-year-old Black British former professorial chair at the...
Laurels and Darts: Service to the country.
CJRby Susie Banikarim·21 Aug 2026
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When Max D. Lederer Jr., the longtime publisher of Stars and Stripes, announced his retirement on Tuesday, amid rumors that the Pentagon might fire him, it was...
The journalist who became a doula.
CJRby Megan Greenwell·20 Aug 2026
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. One of my favorite dive-bar conversations with fellow journalists is “What would you do if you couldn’t do this anymore?” We’ve all thought about it; the tough...
“Talked about more, but described less”
CJRby Jem Bartholomew·19 Aug 2026
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Today the Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP), an organization that seeks to give a voice to “writers and photographers from underrepresented quarters”...
Political attacks and funders’ retrenchment have put movement journalism at serious risk.
CJRby Uyiosa Elegon·19 Aug 2026
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Last month, Prism, which “investigates systems of power with communities most impacted by injustice at the center of our reporting,” announced that it lost a...
What Karoline Leavitt leaves behind.
CJRby Jem Bartholomew·17 Aug 2026
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. On January 28, 2025, a few days after Donald Trump’s second presidential inauguration, Karoline Leavitt addressed the media for the first time as White House...
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