Despite the popular assumption that democracy requires a free and functional press, Americans harbor a surprising recalcitrance toward public subsidies for journalism. Many believe that if the market doesn’t support a news outlet—or if it doesn’t receive a wealthy benefactor’s support—then it deserves to wither. Yet, as local commercial journalism continues to collapse and misinformation […]| Columbia Journalism Review
Thirteen years ago, I lied to a guy named Brian on national television. So I decided to find him and apologize.| Columbia Journalism Review
Dilan Gohill won an award for his work at the Stanford Daily, but his coverage of campus protests has set university officials against him.| Columbia Journalism Review
What the aid funding freeze means for independent journalism around the world.| Columbia Journalism Review
Freelance journalist Abigail Edge was at an Online News Association conference in Los Angeles in 2015 and found herself chatting with the head of a prominent national trade publishing association. The woman asked where she lived. “When I told her Denver she laughed and said ‘that’s not really America. Only the east and west coasts […]| Columbia Journalism Review
We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.| Columbia Journalism Review
The pursuit of collective commitment, with journalism’s future at stake| Columbia Journalism Review
The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.| Columbia Journalism Review