Journalism organizations haven’t issued strict consistent standards around generative artificial intelligence.

On Tuesday, 153 of the most prominent journalists, authors, and writers, including J. K. Rowling, Malcolm Gladwell, and David Brooks, published an open call for civility in Harper’s Magazine. They ...

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Inserted between the pages of the Texas Observer’s Nov./Dec. edition, mailed to readers two months late, was a letter explaining that delivery had been delayed to put together a special, ...

At a recent dinner party, I mentioned that I had co-founded a nonprofit local newsroom and that much of my work over the last decade has been adjacent to, if not squarely in, the nonprofit news space.

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Sometimes you find yourself in the right moment and time to make a difference. Caitlin Dickerson started at NPR as an intern and moved on to report for the newsroom, where she won numerous awards for ...

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