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  • 03/27/2025

    Robert McChesney, the Great Champion of Journalism and Democracy, Has Died

    Bob, with his remarkable intellect and even more remarkable capacity for communicating his vision of a media that served citizens rather than corporations, was always the driving force. His research and his insatiable curiosity helped him to see the future more clearly than any scholar of his generation...

  • 03/17/2025

    The War on Information

    When narrative becomes weapon, media becomes battleground. Trump’s second term isn’t just a return to power—it’s a full-scale war on truth.

  • 05/03/2022

    Equally Safe

    What might a feminist approach to the protection of journalists look like? What concrete benefits might it bring? And could it provide solutions to the well-documented – and highly gendered – abuse that women journalists face every day?

  • 03/11/2025

    The Campaign to Silence Journalists & Undermine Free Speech

    In his book Murder the Truth, author David Enrich explores how Justice Thomas' words coincide with a surge in legal threats and litigation against journalists and media outlets.

  • 03/15/2025

    Trump’s Attempts to Muzzle the Press Look Familiar

    Much of what the U.S. president has done to curb independent media echoes the Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán’s playbook.

  • 03/13/2025

    What to Expect When You’re Expecting Catastrophe

    Magical thinking is far from new. Adolf Hitler came to power amid similar lies and conspiracy theories. We should know where that leads. And, while MAGA may ignore the mountains of books written on fascism, the rest of us are not in the dark about what comes next.

News

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    They’re Coming for the Truth-Tellers: Bondi’s Plan to Jail Journalists

    Thom Hartmann

    The Hartmann Report

    Most alarming part of all is what Bondi reportedly wants to do next. According to sources close to the Justice Department, she has argued that leakers — or even reporters — who provide information that she doesn’t like could be prosecuted for treason, a crime that carries the death penalty.

    Published On: 05/02/2025

  • Global • Journalism • Press Freedom

    RSF World Press Freedom Index 2025

    RSF

    Reporters Without Borders

    The global state of press freedom is now classified as a “difficult situation” for the first time in the history of the Index.

    Published On: 05/02/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The loss of editorial freedom at 60 Minutes is a sorry milestone

    Margaret Sullivan

    The Guardian

    As with so many of the red alerts – lawsuits, threats, changes in long-held practices that protect the public’s right to know – the problem involves Donald Trump’s overweening desire to control the media.

    Published On: 05/01/2025