Even before the owners of the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post overruled their editorial boards and, without warning or explanation, spiked endorsements of Kamala Harris—triggering resignations of journalists, a public uproar, and mass subscription cancellations—liberal disappointment and...
Today, Molly Roberts and David Hoffman (who last week accepted a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing) resigned from their positions on The Post’s Editorial Board over the decision by owner Jeff Bezos not to endorse a candidate in the...
Deterioration of the Washington Post’s subscriber base continued on Tuesday, hours after its proprietor, Jeff Bezos, defended the decision to forgo formally endorsing a presidential candidate as part of an effort to restore trust in the media.The publication has...
X is trying to speed up its crowdsourced fact-checking system, Community Notes. In an update, the company says it has “re-architected” the scoring system that powers the feature so that the user-generated notes can now appear less than 20...
In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress. But in this year’s Gallup poll, we have managed to fall below Congress. Our profession...
The Los Angeles Times and Washington Post have seen significant subscription cancellations in the days since their billionaire owners decided not to endorse in the presidential race after the editorial boards at both newspapers proposed backing Vice President Kamala...
The wave of canceled subscriptions to the Washington Post marks the end of an era in which news organizations marketed themselves as the flaming sword of democracy in a darkening Trump era.NPR reported that the Post lost more than...
Did you know that Napoleon, Emperor of the French, had family roots in Tuscany and delivered his stirring patriotic oratory in a thick Italian accent?On “The Rest Is History,” the world’s most popular history podcast, hosts Tom Holland and...
Emma Tucker became the Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief in 2023, and she’s been moving fast ever since.For starters, there are punchier, more provocative stories and headlines. Just as important: She’s been making a series of cuts and staffing changes....
For a time this fall, the mood in The Washington Post’s newsroom showed signs of lightening.The buyouts of some 120 journalists at the end of 2023 were in the rearview mirror. Stories about the new publisher’s alleged involvement in...
