The Delhi High Court has quashed an FIR registered against news portal NewsClick and its editor-in-chief Prabir Purkayastha, along with related proceedings by the Enforcement Directorate, citing lack of cognizable offences in the allegations of foreign investment irregularities. The ruling brings to an end investigations stemming from complaints about foreign direct investment received by the […]
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Kathy Roberts Forde, a journalist professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, says that it’s critical that journalists and media organizations stop pretending that there is a neutral way to cover the news that expresses no underlying values.…
This is a lightly edited transcript of the June 9 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.
Perry Bacon: I’m Perry Bacon, the host of Right Now on The New Republic. Great guest today. Kathy Roberts Ford is a professor of journalism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and she’s been a frequent guest.…
Imagine this scenario: one year from now. The eye that was once a household name on TV is no more. No more Late Show, no more Evening News, no more 60 Minutes, no more Price is Right. No more radio news with its famous chime. No more Wolf Blitzer, nor Richard Quest. No more James … Continue reading This is Ellison →
How Kristen Welker may be the antidote to Trump 2.0 What a way to start off the week: with one that has a temper tantrum. Kristen Welker of Meet the Press had another opportunity to grill Trump and get the truth out of him. Another for she took a jab at him before, during the … Continue reading Dwellings of a Manbaby. 🍼 →
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I have been waiting for Dan Rather to chime in on the “60 Minutes” debacle and he did so today on his Substack page. Good for him. You may have read my earlier piece here about bookies deciding that Megyn Kelly was a potential “60 Minutes” talent in the days and weeks to come. I […]
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The odds makers are wondering who will replace Scott Pelley. They issued a list of names and full disclosure: some of the names are patently absurd. Would you believe Alex Jones? Or James O’Keefe? But Megyn Kelly came up at the top. Here you go. Have a good laugh and bear in mind that only […]
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CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss lost her initial battle against the staff of _60 Minutes._ That was back in December, when she blocked the airing of a segment that highlighted the inhumane treatment at an El Salvador prison of Venezuelan men who had been deported from the United States and sent there. Sharyn Alfonsi, the correspondent who reported the segment, wrote an email blasting Weiss’s…
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MFP CEO and Executive Editor Donna Ladd writes about how “systemic reporting drives everything we do” at the Mississippi Free Press. “That’s why I coined the phrase for this kind of fearless reporting of what other media don’t or won’t touch,” she explains.
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We knew this was coming. Trump isn’t the first President to be displeased with segments on CBS’s New Magazine show 60 Minutes but he’s the first to actively work to shut it down. When his pals, the Ellison family obtained control Trump told them to trash the show and CBS News in general. THAT is […]
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Facebook has blocked access to the TLR News page in India after its editor, Sulinder Singh Parihar, also known as Sulinder Parihar Sarazi, came under legal scrutiny in Doda district. The action follows the registration of FIR No. 136/2026 on May 25, 2026, at Doda Police Station under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, stemming from a video report on a liquor sale protest that…
Professional photo and video journalists working in Gaza are to receive an annual press freedom award on Monday for risking their lives to report on the war, an association of publishers has said. The 2026 Golden Pen of Freedom will be handed to representatives of global news agencies still operating in Gaza — Agence France-Presse, […]
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The Trump administration invokes the notoriously vague FARA to threaten a critic.
McClatchy Media runs newspapers around the US. But the management have fallen to the AI. Their exciting new plan is called “content scaling”. From Eric Nelson, vice-president of local news: [Wrap, archive] Nelson was promoting the company’s new “content scaling agent,” an AI summarization tool powered by Anthropic’s Claude, which he said can help reporters […]
Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, a veteran journalist who spent years investigating Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch compound in New Mexico — including ties to surveillance of nearby U.S. nuclear weapons labs and the disappearances of American scientists — says on Substack that she has been permanently injured by directed-energy weapon attacks targeting her at home because of that reporting. — Read the rest…
The Vietnamese government will impose fines of up to VND50 million (US$1,900) on social media users who share fabricated or false information, as part of a new decree aimed at tightening control over digital platforms. The decree details administrative violations, penalty levels, remedial measures, and the authorities empowered to issue sanctions and write up violation reports across postal…
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Oksana Shtohryn was attracted to the two-year journalism program at Vancouver's Langara College because it was hands on, quicker to complete than a four-year course.
Tami Jones writes about how the Mississippi Free Press practices journalism through systemic reporting, asking not just what happened but why it happened.
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A stylish and emotionally resonant return to ‘The Devil Wears Prada’ universe, the film trades glamour for something far more urgent: a meditation on the collapse of media and the uncertainty facing journalists across the world
In September 1925, a month after some 30,000 hooded Klansmen paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue in the largest Klan rally in Washington's history, the satirical weekly Judge declared the Ku Klux Klan effectively dead. What remained, the editorial argued, was a fraternal dress-up order, no more threatening than the Shriners. — Read the rest
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got more than a softball interview on CBS’s _60 Minutes_ on Sunday—he got to choose his interlocutor.
The _New York Post_ reports that CBS editor in chief Bari Weiss gave Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes, a choice between the show’s longtime correspondent Lesley Stahl or the network’s chief Washington…
Eric Gustafson, the journalism advisor at Lowell High School, received an email last spring with the subject line “next year’s schedule” from his principal.
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Senator John Fetterman has aligned himself with one more MAGA talking point.
The Pennsylvania Democrat appeared on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast Monday, laughing alongside the “anti-woke” comedian as the pair mutually praised Donald Trump’s “honest” treatment of the press, including an instance in which the president called a female journalist a “piggy.”
“The things that he says aloud, the…
The Oaklandside’s education reporter Ashley McBride will moderate a conversation May 20 between students and OUSD leaders on academic equity, artificial intelligence, and other big storylines shaping the district.