From the beginning, the freedoms of speech and the press were seen as fundamental to democracy. Now in the digital age, where misinformation spreads faster than ever, developing critical thinking […] ...

Last year, I led a team of ProPublica journalists as they exposed the deaths of five women who couldn’t get lifesaving care under state abortion bans. While impact of that magnitude is rare — the kind ...

Pittsburgh’s largest daily, The Post-Gazette, will shut down on May 3 after nearly 240 years of operation, the company announced Wednesday. The Post-Gazette’s owner, Block Communications, blamed steep ...

Excellent reporting exposed the political intervention behind FIFA's unprecedented decision to reinstate U.S. star Folarin ...

As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday, readers picking up a copy of their local paper this weekend might expect photos ...

NPR’s erroneous story about Samuel Alito's retirement was not caused by a prewrite, but the episode shows why safeguards ...

From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their ...

At its simplest, a free press keeps people free. No society can stay free if its rulers go unwatched. For power corrupts.

After the fatal shooting of concealed carry permitholder Alex Pretti, debate over gun rights added a new layer to the federal government’s aggressive immigration enforcement activity in Minneapolis.

The authors of the “Make America Healthy Again” report issued by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touted it as a landmark assessment providing “common scientific basis” to ...

I can’t think of a more fitting celebration of this Fourth of July than a reading of Walter Isaacson’s thin volume “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written.” Isaacson is an influential public scholar and ...

Not that long ago, Dianna Russini was at the top of her profession as an NFL insider for The Athletic. She was reportedly making nearly $800,000 and was considered one of the faces of the company, ...