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Joe Zelnik has stepped down from his position as editor of the Cape May County Herald due to health concerns, said Art Hall, the paper's publisher. Under the new tile [...]

Jim Boyd has taken voluntary buyout and will be leaving the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after nearly 27 years. Boyd had been the deputy editor of the paper's editorial [...]

David Dahl is regional editor of The Boston Globe, overseeing the Globe North, Globe South, Globe West, Globe Northwest, and City Weekly sections. Dahl had been the paper's political editor [...]

Jeffrey Fleishman will become the Cairo bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times this summer. He is the paper's bureau chief in Berlin, Germany, a position he has held for [...]

Stan Tiner's (NF '86) paper, The Sun Herald, won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service 'for its valorous and comprehensive coverage of Hurricane Katrina, providing a lifeline for devastated [...]

John S. Carroll retired as editor of the Los Angeles Times in July. The paper's managing editor, Dean P. Baquet, will succeed him. Carroll had been with the Times since [...]

In a 1952 cover story, Newsweek calculated that British press baron Lord Beaverbrook was selling more papers per day--five million--than anyone else in the world. Through the 1950's the circulation [...]

AHMED KABIR KISHORE REMEMBERS the hot, humid afternoon in 2020 when his long career as a political cartoonist was violently interrupted. He had dozed off in his apartment in Dhaka, [...]

AS A CUB REPORTER at The Associated Press in the early 1960s, Kelly Tunney was captivated by the stories she heard from her older co-workers. There was Frank 'Pappy' Noel, [...]

IN FEBRUARY, just before I joined a Zoom call with Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, I saw posts on social media that VICE News [...]

The news industry is entering a new era, and after so many failed attempts at transformation over the past two decades, we're wrestling with the fundamental question of our time: [...]

Social media and the ways journalists use it are facing a legal reckoning in the courts. This reckoning is easy to miss. We're accustomed to a seemingly never-ending stream of [...]

My college roommate gets her news from a talking fish on TikTok. And she's not the only one. The 'Talking Fish News' has 325,000 followers, and it is one of [...]

ON FEB. 17, 2022, French billionaire Vincent Bollore officially retired as chairman of his family's business after more than 40 years leading the company. The event took place in the [...]

Let's start with an encouraging statistic: Despite years of demoralizing reports on sweeping media layoffs, nearly 300 new digital local news organizations have launched since 2016. That number, which comes [...]

There are things that you think would never happen to you, like an airplane crash--or a war. As a child, every time the TV was on, I heard the words [...]

April 4, 1983 was the 15th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. The day before was a Sunday, and I was with my family in the virtually all-white [...]

THE OUTDOOR TABLES of Kafka Kultur Internet Cafe are covered with piles of empty teacups and ashtrays full of half-smoked cigarettes. Several customers sit and open their laptops, while the [...]

In May 2022, the Finnish public broadcaster Yle noticed an audience they weren't reaching. Tens of thousands of Ukrainians displaced by the war had moved to Finland. Yle offered news [...]

The Asheville Watchdog is a tiny nonprofit in far western North Carolina, but its editorial meetings could double as a get-together of the Pulitzer alumni club. The project came together [...]

WHEN GLORIA CHAN TALKS about the work of Green Bean Media, the Hong Kongfocused exile news site she helped found last year in the United Kingdom, she is crisply matter [...]

LA PERLA DEL SUR, one of the few independent media outlets in Puerto Rico to cover news outside the capital, San Juan, announced in June that it was printing its [...]

One year ago, Chicago Public Media announced the acquisition of The Chicago Sun-Times, a public radio station combining forces with a cherished hometown newspaper. The Chicago merger has created one [...]

When an extraordinary heat wave hit the Pacific Northwest in June 2021, with temperatures soaring to a record 116 degrees in Portland, it sent a hard-to-ignore message that extreme heat [...]

Anthony (Tony) Heard, the former editor of the Gape Times in South Africa, who defied apartheid restrictions to publish an interview in 1985 with the then banned leader of the [...]

Beware of road metaphors. In the twisty-turny devolution of the local press since The Great Recession, we've been driven down pathways, ramps, routes, shortcuts, and, unfortunately, many dead-ends. Which brings [...]

In January 2024, Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer Barbara Davidson traveled from her Los Angeles home to the California-Mexico border town of Jacumba. The month before, U.S. law enforcement had taken into [...]

WHEN RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN ordered the invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24 the journalists of the English-language Kyiv Independent set up a live blog with constant updates for Ukrainians [...]

1963 Victor K. McElheny attended the 40th anniversary celebrations of Knight Science Journalism at MIT in April. From 19821998, he served as founding director of the nine-month mid-career program, which [...]

The dark inspiration for 'Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves From the American Dream' came from the news but also from my lived experience. I direct the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a media [...]

Remer Tyson, who spent the better part of two decades chronicling wars, famine, and freedom movements in Africa--including South Africa's triumph over apartheid--died at his home in Harare, Zimbabwe, on [...]

MOST DAYS, PAUL GILLESPIE KEEPS HIMSELF TO PHOTOGRAPHING the news, not commenting on it. January 6, 2021, wasn't one of those days. As violent pro-Donald Trump rioters laid siege to [...]

When the pandemic hit, Emily Brindley and Alex Putterman, two young journalists at The Hartford Courant, were taken off their usual beats to report on Covid-19. What was supposed to [...]

Seven years before the largest explosion since Hiroshima obliterated a large part of the port of Beirut in August, claimed some 200 lives, and left some 300,000 homeless, port authorities [...]

A little over a year ago, 45 people in an inflatable boat died at sea trying to cross to Spain from a beach north of the city of Casablanca along [...]

For the four years President Trump was in office, political journalists covered an administration which repeatedly attacked the press, calling them the 'enemy of the people,' and which repeatedly lied, [...]

1974 Phil Hudgins is author of 'Grace and Disgrace: Living with Faith and the Leader of the Dixie Mafia' (BookLogix 2023), the story of Ruby Nell Birt, who was married [...]

In 2018, the Trump administration's so-called 'zero tolerance' border policy separated over 5,000 children from their families, hundreds of whom have still not been reunited. Caitlin Dickerson, now a staff [...]

Mary Knoblauch, my first fulltime editor, died recently. There was a photograph at the wake showing her with a small team of reporters celebrating a series that won some awards. [...]