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Opinion | Why can’t newsroom leaders just be normal about AI?

A series of tumultuous generative artificial intelligence rollouts make clear that leaders need to listen before leaping

April 24, 2026

Opinion | The White House Correspondents’ Dinner has always been a cringefest. Trump just makes it obvious.

This year’s disaster has been decades in the making

April 16, 2026

Opinion | Talking buildings and Pixar-like avatars: Cleveland Plain Dealer AI videos draw criticism

In a notable escalation of Cleveland.com’s use of generative artificial intelligence, the newsroom has debuted AI avatars on social media

April 24, 2026

Former Poynter chairman and Tampa Bay Times CEO Andrew Barnes dies at 86

Barnes shepherded Poynter through an attempted hostile takeover of the Times, ensuring that the paper would remain independently owned

April 23, 2026

Opinion | Judge dismisses Kash Patel’s defamation lawsuit against MS NOW analyst’s ‘nightclubs’ comment

Plus more on Patel vs. the press, MS NOW and White House Correspondents’ Dinner

April 23, 2026

Can journalists really make a living on Substack?

A few high-profile writers are thriving. For most, it’s still a grind.

April 23, 2026

Nicole Slaughter Graham

Opinion | The White House Correspondents’ Dinner guest list keeps raising eyebrows

Brendan Carr’s planned appearance and Trump’s return complicate an event already fraught with press tensions

April 22, 2026

Amaris Castillo

Frost-Nixon showed journalism could hold power to account even when the justice system failed

The 1977 interviews pushed Nixon beyond ‘mistakes’ to wrongdoing and led to an on-camera admission that he had let the country down

April 22, 2026

Amaris Castillo

Indiana’s got a voting problem. News outlets can only do so much to fix it

Here’s what journalists and government officials could do to get more voters to the polls

April 22, 2026

Opinion | Kash Patel sued The Atlantic. Can he actually win?

Defamation law sets a high bar for public figures, but the lawsuit might serve another purpose

April 21, 2026

Even when Trump deflects, the job is simple. Keep asking the question.

A White House exchange and a decades-old reporting lesson show why persistence still matters when the truth is hard to pin down.

April 21, 2026

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