“I’m really fucking busy being the real Chris Hansen,” and other thoughts about Primetime.

“I’m really fucking busy being the real Chris Hansen,” and other thoughts about Primetime.

The press stands up for itself, together. Plus: A surrender to—not a settlement with—Paramount, and a great HBO crime doc.

A collaboration between KFF Health and local outlets enabled reporters to produce a clearer picture of opioid settlement spending than the oversight body did. Plus: Cartoonish AI, and essential immigr...

The Jezebel founder’s lifelong struggle to break free of feminine conventions.

Absent public records, NJ.com poured resources into research—and turned up devastating findings. Plus: Lost BET archives, and an extraordinary escape from Afghanistan, years after 9/11.

The Wall Street Journal’s opinion page embraces an AI submission. Plus: Tracking the expulsion of climate science from Florida textbooks, and putting out prison fires.

Stars and Stripes does its duty for the USS Abraham Lincoln—and the First Amendment. Plus: Poll psychosis and book tracking.

Newspaper owner calls the people abruptly laid off “simply a math problem.” Plus: Investigative reporting forces a Tulsa jail to close, and reexamining a false narrative in Seattle.

Newspaper owner calls the people abruptly laid off “simply a math problem.” Plus: Investigative reporting forces a Tulsa jail to close, and reexamining a false narrative in Seattle.

Dave Jorgenson, cofounder of Local News International, on the post-Post life.

Steady coverage of Immigration and Customs Enforcement by outlets in Colorado and Connecticut. Plus: Axel Springer’s Peter Thiel party.

In her documentary Ask E. Jean, Ivy Meeropol finds a subject with “a way of talking about sexual assault that I hadn’t heard before.”

The Baltimore Sun swipes at Wes Moore, and a seasoned reporter resigns. Plus: Holding the police accountable, and the grim reality of wellness treatments.

While communities of color are under attack, Black journalists lose ground. Still, Black media-makers are expanding our thinking. And there’s a Black Crossword.

Make it all make sense, Bari Weiss and Jeff Bezos! Plus: The Lens sees clearly.

Bari Weiss is putting her stamp on the famous newsmagazine, an opportunity for change and a major risk.

Raney Aronson-Rath on Frontline’s expansion and the growing global appetite for cinematic investigative documentaries.

Jessica Valenti’s rigorous reporting, plagiarism problems, and lifting the veil on an AI data center.

Jessica Valenti’s rigorous reporting, plagiarism problems, and lifting the veil on an AI data center.

Rage-inducing machines, gambling slop, and big bad kids’ hockey.

Welcome to the Rainbow Bay Bridge, little buddy.

A documentary that resonates, why the press needs to pay more attention to Truth Social madness, and an impressive investigation from the Post and Courier.

A documentary that resonates, why the press needs to pay more attention to Truth Social madness, and an impressive investigation from the Post and Courier.

Tracy Clark-Flory went looking for her lost sister. She found a system that thrived on women’s shame.

Filming the correspondents’ dinner breach, Brendan Carr’s offensive play, and a damning investigation from the Tampa Bay Times.

Powerful reporting from The Intercept on Lebanon, ghoulishness from Forbes, and the Miami Herald reveals the harms of gambling addiction.

A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.

Examining “crisis pregnancy” centers in rural parts of Texas that lack maternal care. Plus: Bad AI practice and CNN’s good reporting from the West Bank.

Filmmaker Sebastian Walker on the journalistic benefits of a “direct conversation” with Iranian leaders, despite draconian restrictions.

SFGate’s national parks bureau makes waves. Plus: AI slop on slop at Vanity Fair, and holding Grammarly’s CEO accountable.

Noah Shachtman lands at the Times, somehow. Plus: A strong start for a Substack looking westward, and a Banner week in Baltimore.

Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal served with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and legally evacuated the country, then died within a day of being taken into ICE custody, according to his family

Plus, why we should let Trump go to voicemail, and great work from Charleston’s Post and Courier.

Plus, why we should let Trump go to voicemail, and great work from Charleston’s Post and Courier.