Complicity Is a Choice: Corporate Media’s Anti-DEI Capitulation
The corporate retreat from diversity, equity and inclusion has been quick, frictionless and pervasive
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Also Missing from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: CBS’ Courage
Chairman Carr’s ‘chilling effect’ is no laughing matter
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.”
How Grok’s Demons Are Already Haunting the 2026 Election
One independent researcher’s effort to stop Elon Musk’s election-disinformation machine
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
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.’
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
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.’
Disinformation, Dissent and Don Lemon
Protesters and the press both need the First Amendment — and they both need to keep showing up
Nexstar’s Big Payback
The nation’s biggest local-TV broadcaster has passed Trump’s loyalty test and is ready to cash in
How We Got to Minneapolis
Andrea Flores on the roots of government violence and what it will take to stop it
Liar, Liar, World on Fire
People don’t trust the media because they won’t tell them who’s lying
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Recording ICE Isn’t ‘Violence’ – It’s a Constitutionally Protected Act of Journalism
How the First Amendment plays an essential role in exposing the truth about Renee Good’s tragic death in Minneapolis
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The Polarizing Narratives of Venezuela as Told Through Messaging Apps
A Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas analysis reveals how information about the world’s biggest story differs depending on the language
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Pressing Issues Holiday Gift Guide
We’ve (almost) made it to the end of 2025. And we couldn’t have done it without a little help from our friends and favorite writers.
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The Media Is Essential Democratic Infrastructure
‘The press matters because it is vital to the project of self-government.’
Future of Journalism
Despite the Efforts of Hardworking Journalists, Wisconsin’s Local-News Infrastructure Is in Dire Need of Support
It’s no secret that local news is shrinking and disappearing across the country, and Wisconsin has been one of the hardest-hit states
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The Trump Administration’s Chokehold on Free Speech
I examined hundreds of assaults on the First Amendment, revealing the regime’s systemic speech-chilling campaign
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Stop the Merger Madness
Rule No. 1 when big deals get announced: Don’t believe the hype
Future of Journalism
Pennsylvania Legislator Takes Action to Address the Local News Crisis
A Pressing Issues conversation with State Rep. Chris Rabb about two new local-news bills
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Campaign Calls on Univision and Telemundo to Stop Airing Anti-Immigrant Ads
Mijente’s latest petition says broadcasting DHS commercials betrays Spanish-speaking communities in the U.S.
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Trump’s Censorship Czar Goes Further Adrift
FCC Chairman Carr’s attempt to bully the BBC is a ‘fishing expedition in the desert’
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Media Mergers and the New McCarthyism
Jane Fonda, Anna Gomez, John Oliver and the growing backlash against censorship and consolidation
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When the Government Doesn't Want You Reporting on ICE
A conversation with Chicago Tribune reporter Laura Rodríguez Presa about covering ‘Operation Midway Blitz’ and staying rooted in community