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What the Flock? Exposing Big Tech’s Surveillance State
As spying becomes big business, more people are mobilizing to resist mass surveillance
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
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
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 Isn’t Optional for Democracy
Free Press Board Chair Victor Pickard explains why on the latest episode of ‘Money on the Left’
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
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
What’s Next in the People vs. Paramount?
The bad guys are losing, but we still have a long way to go
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
‘Barrio Television’ Broke the Mold
Christina DiPasquale is making sure this important moment of media activism isn’t forgotten
El Grito in the Time of ICE Killings
How LULAC’s new digital-only newsroom is leading with community-driven journalism
Media
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw and the Need for More ‘Backtalkers’
The legendary legal scholar says we must ‘resist the stories that we’re being told that tell us that there’s nothing that we can or should do to change the circumstances’
Future of Journalism
Looking Back, Looking Forward on New Jersey’s Groundbreaking Effort to Support Local News
While inspiring similar initiatives nationwide, New Jersey’s Civic Information Consortium faces a funding threat at home
Public Media
A Tale of Two Cities and Public Media’s Future
The path to public media’s revival starts outside and runs through the states
Media
Media Consolidation Cage Match: The People vs. Paramount
The fix was in at Trump’s DoJ. But this fight isn’t over yet.
Tech
Three Words to Fix Government Spying: ‘Get a Warrant’
Why do so many Democrats still want to give Donald Trump unchecked surveillance powers?
History
Our Copa: A Different World Cup Is Possible
The planet’s greatest sporting event has become a site of autocracy, corruption, repression and surveillance
Free Speech
First on the Scene at Delaney Hall
Organizers committing acts of journalism are shining a light on ICE atrocities
Tech
Brendan Carr Declares War on Poor People
The Lifeline program helps low-income families stay connected. So, of course, the Trump FCC hates it.
Free Speech
The Antidote to Surveillance Is Solidarity
Why we’re launching a grassroots campaign to stop government spying
Media
Stephen Colbert vs. The Lying Weasels
It’s too late for the Late Show, but we can still stop the guys who killed it
Media
Media Consolidation Threatens to Lock Away Our Shared History
The Archival Producers Alliance is working to save our audiovisual heritage before it disappears
Public Media
New Jersey’s Big Chance to Revive Local Media
Journalism in the Garden State is at a crossroads. Choosing the right path could be transformative.