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President Donald Trump's job approval rating has slipped to a new second-term low point and is approaching his all-time low of 34%.

I took up the sport to be like my father. I kept going because he stopped.

Bridging the Gap – Local News Research Meets Practice – Teams, Fri 17 Oct 2025 - Bridging the Gap – Local News Research Meets Practice Hosted by: MeCCSA Local and Community Media (LCM) Section Join us...

Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets. Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key w...

Retired officer Jeffrey Kriv acknowledged repeatedly lying under oath to avoid paying dozens of speeding and other traffic tickets. Prosecutors have dropped at least 92 cases in which Kriv was a key w...

The e-ID is the digital form of an ID card

Cheryl Phillips, founder and co-Director of Big Local News at Stanford University, gives insight on new database giving Californians access to nearly one-point-five million pages of internal police re...

Job Description Summary & Additional Information Additional Job Description: The Howard Center for Investigative Journalism is a non-profit investigative reporting unit that produces deeply report...

What is model collapse and what does it mean for news organization strategy?

If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “AI agents” if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of …

We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

A conversation with Elite Truong, VP of Product Strategy The vice president of product strategy at the American Press Institute and board secretary for the News Product Alliance, Elite Truong, has…

While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

Today, Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme and Jessica Gallagher of The Baltimore Banner and The New York Times were awarded the local reporting Pulitzer prize for an investigation into Baltimore’s fentanyl crisi...

The U.S. consumer product safety agency will stop collecting data on injuries from incidents like car accidents and adverse drug effects due to staff cuts at the CDC, according to an agency email seen by Reuters and a source familiar with the situation.

A state judge dismissed former Gov. Phil Bryant’s defamation lawsuit against Mississippi Today, ending a nearly two-year case that became a beacon in the fight for American press freedom.

STANFORD, Calif. – April 3, 2025 – Stanford University’s Big Local News has been awarded a $3.9 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to accelerate collaborative infrastructure...

Earlier this morning I looked up a review that I wrote for The Boston Phoenix of Robert McChesney’s breakthrough 1999 book, “Rich Media, Poor Democracy.” I had to laugh, because B…