What exactly is a “creator journalist?”
It was early in 2022, and I was part of a virtual panel on the crisis in local news hosted by WBUR in Boston along with an extraordinary entrepreneur and force of nature named Crystal Good, who […]
How Chicago’s local media is responding to Trump admin ICE raids
Editor’s Note: This is part of a continuing series mapping the crisis in local news, navigating newspapers in distress, those finding a way to sustain and highlighting bright spots in the new digital organizations that are emerging. CHICAGO […]
The Berkshire Eagle soars once again
The Eagle building is nested into the triangle where Eagle Street meets North Street just along the railroad tracks off the Common in Pittsfield, MA in the Berkshires. A flat-iron building with a brick facade […]
The Berkshire Eagle: The newspaper soars once again
The Eagle building is nested into the triangle where Eagle Street meets North Street just along the railroad tracks off the Common in Pittsfield, MA in the Berkshires. A flat-iron building with a brick facade […]
Clark Kent wouldn’t have a job today
Crossing the George Washington Bridge into Manhattan at sunset, there is a sweeping view of the Upper West Side down to the long, urban expanse and the spires of the financial district. On a recent […]
Opinion: Defining solidarity with Ukraine on the war’s fourth anniversary
CAMBRIDGE – An arctic chill cut its way down Massachusetts Avenue here in Harvard Square where I came for an academic conference titled “Solidarity Within and Beyond Ukraine.” It was the morning of January 30th, […]
Opinion: Don Lemon & the ongoing war on the free press
Every week, it seems, we are writing about an increasingly pervasive threat to press freedom. The attacks on journalism, and on truth itself, are relentless in America and far too many corners of the world, […]
Opinion: AI platforms need to wake up to an alarming crisis in local news
The beautiful, old Goss Uniliner presses that have run like a locomotive for generations at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will be grinding to a halt as the newspaper announced this month it will stop printing altogether […]
A look at an Israeli checkpoint in the Palestinian town where Jesus was born
Checkpoint 300 is a military post manned by the Israel Defense Forces on the edge of the Palestinian town of Bethlehem, where the New Testament tells us Jesus was born. Nearby, there are concrete blast […]
Searching for light in the dusk of local news
The year 2025 will long be remembered as a devastating milestone for the decline of local journalism. It caps two decades which have seen the news industry ravaged and the idea of truth itself under […]