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Opinion | Disney and ABC News cuts include the shutdown of FiveThirtyEight

The data-driven site, founded by Nate Silver in 2008, gained prominence for its near-perfect forecast of Barack Obama’s victory that year

March 6, 2025

In a nation of news deserts, are there news rainforests, too? If so, where?

Even idealistic digital startups tend to head where the money is.

March 4, 2025

Opinion | What we can learn from the botched Vanity Fair interview with Megan Thee Stallion

If news outlets are going to elevate influencers like Giggly Squad’s Hannah Berner to red carpet interviewers, they must properly prepare them.

March 6, 2025

As websites disappear, link rot threatens journalism. One Stanford fellow is working on a fix

Brandon Tauszik, a fellow at The Starling Lab, is developing a low-cost way for journalists to preserve their work

March 5, 2025

13 fact checks of President Donald Trump’s address to Congress

Trump made false claims about Social Security fraud, immigration, money sent to Ukraine, the Paris accord and more

March 5, 2025

Opinion | Trump’s speech caps another busy day in media

One out-of-the-box name in media is floating his name as a Democratic nominee for president and says, ‘I can beat them all.’

March 5, 2025

Live fact checks of President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress

Trump will speak to Congress at 9 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday. Follow along with our live fact-checking.

March 4, 2025

Opinion | Is Bezos’s new editorial mission for The Washington Post already bombing?

The Post’s new focus on ‘personal liberties and free markets’ made an inauspicious debut with milquetoast Trump/Zelenskyy commentary

March 4, 2025

Fact-checking Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy’s tense Oval Office meeting on Ukraine and Russia

Donald Trump and JD Vance made several misleading claims about Zelenskyy and Ukraine. PolitiFact fact-checked three of them.

March 4, 2025

Opinion | Introducing The Poynter 50, a yearlong look at consequential people and events that shaped 50 years of media

Some moments changed everything. Others flew under the radar. But all 50 shaped the journalism we know today — and where it’s headed.

March 3, 2025

The night the skies over Baghdad were illuminated, the 24-hour news cycle took over

CNN’s live coverage of Operation Desert Storm launched a new era in television news

March 3, 2025

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