Journalism

The European Media Freedom Act seeks to safeguard the independence of newsrooms and foster media pluralism.

One of Chinese Communist party’s most outspoken critics faces prospect of life in prison

Newspaper sports sections are still struggling. The Athletic is pivoting. So some enterprising local-sports journalists are trying to take up the slack.

A new class action lawsuit filed this week in the U.S. District Court in D.C. accuses Google and parent company Alphabet of anticompetitive behavior in violation of U.S. antitrust law, the Sherman Act, and others, on behalf of news publishers. The case, filed by Arkansas-based publisher Helena World Chronicle, argues that Google “siphons off” news publishers’ content, their readers and ad revenue through anticompetitive means. It also specifically cites new AI technologies like Google’s Search Generative Experience (SGE) and Bard AI chatbot as worsening the problem.

AI-generated news anchors will take to the screen as soon as February.

The combined newsroom will have more than 70 people.

The new firm will begin operations by April next year, and will be led by Rupa Jha.

In 1999, a news assistant’s number crunching revealed that The Times had gotten ahead of itself.

The news sector alone has lost 2,681 jobs so far in 2023 — more than it did in all of 2022 or 2021.

Investing.com has been increasingly relying on AI to create its stories.

In a rapidly escalating case that is worrying First Amendment advocates, journalist Catherine Herridge could soon be held in contempt of court if she does not reveal her source for the investigative stories she wrote in 2017.

Herridge, now a reporter for CBS News who worked for Fox News at the time, has a Thursday deadline to explain to a federal judge why she should not face the civil sanction — and the hefty, accumulating fines that could come with it.

U.S. District Court Judge Christopher R. Cooper ruled Aug. 1 that Herridge must reveal how she learned about a federal probe into a Chinese American scientist who operated a graduate program in Virginia — the subject of several stories Herridge reported for Fox.

Yanping Chen was never charged as a result of the investigation, which sought to determine whether she had lied about her military service and whether her school’s student database could be accessed from China, as the Fox News reports revealed. But after those stories brought the probe to light, Chen sued the federal government alleging that Herridge had been given leaked materials that violated her privacy, including photographs and images of internal government documents.

After Chen’s lawyers conducted 18 depositions of government and other officials without learning the source of the leak, according to her legal filing, Chen has argued that only the journalist could provide the information she needed to pursue her grievance against the government.

The judge came to the same conclusion. While acknowledging “the vital importance of a free press and the critical role that confidential sources play in the work of investigative journalists,” Cooper ruled in August that Chen’s need for the evidence “overcomes Herridge’s qualified First Amendment privilege.”

But First Amendment advocates disagreed, arguing that journalists can perform their public service function only if they are able to protect the identities of their confidential sources.

Journalist Nick Davies talks to Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber in Prospect magazine's 'Media Confidential’ podcast about the new revelations from the settlement by News Group Newspapers

An Israeli army tank killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six other journalists in Lebanon while they were filming cross-border shelling on Oct. 13, a Reuters investigation has found.

Shah, a former BBC journalist, is the government's preferred candidate to replace Richard Sharp.

New research from the Reuters Institute shows us that newsrooms have become more flexible post-pandemic, but not how that flexibility is being used.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Radio-Canada announced Monday that it plans to cut about 10 per cent of its workforce and axe some programming to cope with a $125 million budget shortfall.

The network should bring back Mehdi Hasan’s show and make clear that it embraces progressive criticism of President Biden and other Democratic leaders.

News publishers are cautious to pour more resources into Threads, as limited available data makes it difficult to determine whether investing more into the platform is worth it.

A group of celebrities have received "substantial damages" and apologies from the publisher of The Sun over alleged unlawful newsgathering.

Seven of the world’s “most trusted” media companies produce and promote content touting the key talking points of oil and gas.

Fahad Shah, whose case was a symbol of harassment of region’s media, says he has different outlook after months behind bars

The Guardian’s most senior editors have issued a rare joint message to their staff, warning journalists against signing open letters and posting messages on social media that “risk compromising our editorial integrity”.

Days after more than 300 local journalists, including at least 25 from Guardian Australia, called for greater scepticism of Israel’s defence forces in coverage of the Gaza conflict, the British news organisation’s editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, outlined the new rules to staff in an internal note.

The Washington Post Guild has authorized a one-day walkout for next Thursday to protest the company’s unwillingness to bargain over a new contract in good faith.

Talking about climate change can be a tough job, especially in places where audiences may be less likely to accept the science. Strong resistance has pushed some meteorologists out of the field.

Few newspapers still employ full-time cartoonists. But some digital outlets are turning to the art form.