Media
Media Mission Accomplished?
The coverage of yet another senseless war will make it even harder to access factual information
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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