A few years back, my local mom Facebook group started a weekly thread to share the best deals on groceries around town. We tried to look through supermarkets’ circulars to pull out the best deals we ...
Where did you turn for election night news? The platform formerly known as Twitter? Bluesky? The Meta-owned Threads? Those who chose the latter hoping for timely updates about the presidential ...
The grim numbers on those fronts are unlikely to surprise anyone, but it’s still striking that some declines are even more precipitous than anticipated. “In our 2022 report, the State of Local News ...
The 2024 election is all hands on deck for American newsrooms. And student reporters are helping supply critical local news to communities across the country. The Center for Community News intends to ...
“Is wearing Taylor Swift merch or a trash bag considering electioneering in Kansas? What if you dress your kid up as Donald Trump or Kamala Harris?” “A used car dealership owner in Texas told his ...
Ten years ago, when the Associated Press declared the winners of the 2014 midterm elections, the alerts it sent out were little more than headlines: So-and-so won such-and-such election in this or ...
In five election cycles, endorsing for president went from a “nearly everybody” thing to a “barely half” thing. You can find all the details in that story, but the tl;dr is that, in 2016, newspapers ...
Ask journalists about the core professional values that define good journalism, and the answers have been pretty consistent across the decades and even, to a large extent, around much of the world: ...
“The question of whether the leaders of legacy mainstream media outlets failed to meet the moment on a moral level — as many did — is totally separate from whether those outlets can even make much of ...
“[UFC CEO Dana White] didn’t choose to first thank volunteers, campaign workers, or even the 71 million-plus voters who cast ballots for Trump. Instead, he thanked ‘the Nelk Boys, Adin Ross, Theo Von, ...
“Did you know a Kansas watch party served a ‘Childless Cat Lady’ cocktail? Or that astrologers predicted a Kamala Harris win based on her birth chart? And did you know New Jersey Senator-elect Andy ...