On Local News Day, a National Call to Transform Journalism
The need for truthful, community-rooted news and civic information has never been clearer
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U.S. Media Must Sound the Fascist Alarm Before It’s Too Late
Trump’s dangerous and unhinged Truth Social rants remove all doubt about the threat he poses to millions of lives
Juries Remind Us That People Matter More Than Big Tech Platform Profits
What we knew all along — tech companies harm people in their schemes to ignore safety and expression
Looking Back at Our Media Laws to Look Ahead
The last major congressional overhaul of our nation’s media and telecom laws was 30 years ago. Was it a good plan, and are we still following it today?
ICE, Airports and the Growing Surveillance State
The authoritarian playbook is right in front of us
Five Questions with Jazmine Ulloa
How the history of the United States flows through El Paso
The States Step Up to Stop Nexstar’s TV Takeover
When the FCC won’t do its job or respect the law, it’s time to go to court
Warmongers Come for the Media
Brendan Carr must go — and other lessons from our latest misadventures in media coercion
Hollywood’s Big Moment: Will Tinseltown Stand Up to Fascism?
It’s Oscars weekend, and the most important question isn’t who’s taking home a statue
ICE Detains Another Journalist
Attorneys and allies push to free Nashville’s Estefany María Rodríguez Florez
Biased and Bogus Sources Are Powering AI
I was promised Rosie from The Jetsons, but all I got was this half-baked AI overview
Media Mission Accomplished?
The coverage of yet another senseless war will make it even harder to access factual information
Public Media
Public Media’s Promise Was Never the Problem
This is the moment to find a better solution. But the winning coalition must be as broad and as honest as the problem is large.
Future of Journalism
What Cicero Can Teach Us About Making Better Media Policy
And why we keep asking the wrong questions
Media
Complicity Is a Choice: Corporate Media’s Anti-DEI Capitulation
The corporate retreat from diversity, equity and inclusion has been quick, frictionless and pervasive
Media
Also Missing from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: CBS’ Courage
Chairman Carr’s ‘chilling effect’ is no laughing matter
News
Ed Markey Wants ICE Out of Your Face
The Massachusetts senator tells Pressing Issues: “Surveillance without limits becomes power without accountability. And power without accountability becomes tyranny.”
Tech
How Grok’s Demons Are Already Haunting the 2026 Election
One independent researcher’s effort to stop Elon Musk’s election-disinformation machine
Media
Breaking Up with Billionaire-Owned Media
To save the media and our democracy, we need to do more than cancel subscriptions to The Washington Post
Free Speech
Pressing Issues Interviews FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez
‘The First Amendment doesn’t disappear just because the government is unhappy with how it is being covered.’
Media
5 Things I Learned About the Fight for Free Speech at Sundance 2026
The festival brings together the united, pluralist society that racists are so scared of — making it a prime space for organizing
News
Nick Valencia on What He Saw in Minneapolis and His ‘Unfiltered, Unbought and Unafraid’ Journalism
‘I recognize what trauma looks like in the eyes of another.’
Media
Disinformation, Dissent and Don Lemon
Protesters and the press both need the First Amendment — and they both need to keep showing up
Media
Nexstar’s Big Payback
The nation’s biggest local-TV broadcaster has passed Trump’s loyalty test and is ready to cash in