Too Long Have Others Spoken for Us
Journalists of color and their continued struggle to democratize our society
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Loss Leaders: Tech Barons Buy Up Media Outlets to Hide Grifts
Billionaires are amassing control of our information environment to manipulate and control politics
The U.S. Immigration Regime Is ‘Racist by Design’
A conversation with historian Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernández about the historic whites-only system driving the U.S. immigration machine
The White House Press Pool Is Not a Loyalty Test
President Trump’s longstanding attacks on the media have reached a constitutional breaking point
Attorneys General Cave to Paramount’s Extortion Threats
But the growing movement fighting the authoritarian takeover of the media won’t stop
Watching Wisconsin’s Secretive Data Centers
How local independent news outlets are alerting communities to the threats posed by Big Tech
Saying No to AI Slop — and The Baltimore Sun
Certain journalistic lines just can’t be crossed
25 Years After 9/11, Have We Learned From Our Choices?
Reckoning with that terrible day and the forever wars, mass surveillance and anti-Muslim hysteria that followed
What We’ve Learned in One Year of Pressing Issues
Some appreciations and reflections about our inaugural year
Studios Forsake LGBTQ Representation at Their Own Peril
Q&A with GLAAD’s Associate Director of Entertainment Research and Analysis Raina Deerwater about the “Where We Are in Film” report
The Longest-Detained Journalist in U.S. Custody Keeps Fighting
Carlitos Ricardo Parias — aka Richard LA — was shot by ICE officials and has been detained for more than 300 days
David Ellison Is Getting Desperate
Politicians and the press shouldn’t fall for Paramount’s bullying tactics and blatant lies
Public media
Want Better Media? Start by Listening to What Communities Say They Need
We have a lot to learn from community broadcasters in rural America
Tech
What the Flock? Exposing Big Tech’s Surveillance State
As spying becomes big business, more people are mobilizing to resist mass surveillance
Media
Actress Constance Marie on Why the Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. Discovery Merger Is ‘Not Good for Us as Humanity, as a Labor Force, as Latinos’
Part of an ongoing Pressing Issues series with Hollywood voices
Tech
Bridget Todd and the Business of AI Intimacy
A Pressing Issues conversation with the host of “There Are No Girls on the Internet” about her new audiobook
Media
Puerto Rico Journalists Just Beat a ‘Fake News’ Law in Federal Court
Sandra Rodríguez Cotto, one of two reporters who sued over a COVID-era censorship law, talks with Pressing Issues
Public Media
Public Media Isn’t Optional for Democracy
Free Press Board Chair Victor Pickard explains why on the latest episode of ‘Money on the Left’
Media
Diversity Sells, But Media Conglomerates Are More Interested in White Supremacy
UCLA’s Dr. Ana-Christina Ramón talks about her decade-long study on how Hollywood is leaving money on the table by refusing to platform diverse filmmakers
Future of Journalism
How I Found Hope and Humanity at a Journalism Conference in New Orleans
Reflections from a harrowing and inspiring long weekend with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists
Media
What’s Next in the People vs. Paramount?
The bad guys are losing, but we still have a long way to go
Future of Journalism
Community Media Centers Can Benefit from New Public-Funding Models for News and Civic Information
A Pressing Issues conversation with Matt Schuster, executive director of Public Media Network
Media
‘Barrio Television’ Broke the Mold
Christina DiPasquale is making sure this important moment of media activism isn’t forgotten
Media
El Grito in the Time of ICE Killings
How LULAC’s new digital-only newsroom is leading with community-driven journalism