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TikTok to launch its own Community Notes-style fact-checking feature: Footnotes

The social media platform joins X, Meta and YouTube in big tech’s push toward crowdsourced fact-checking

April 16, 2025

Matt Drudge broke the Lewinsky story — and the media gatekeepers

The Drudge Report’s Lewinsky scoop shattered newsroom standards and helped usher in an era of viral, ‘it’s out there’ reporting

April 15, 2025

Opinion | It appears Trump’s ban on The Associated Press just got worse

Instead of letting the AP back into the press pool, the White House eliminated the guaranteed spot for wire services altogether

April 16, 2025

Meet the 30 journalists who claimed a spot in Poynter’s latest Essential Skills for Rising Newsroom Leaders

Poynter program gives April 2025 participants personalized guidance so they return to their newsrooms ready to lead

April 16, 2025

Sabrina Shihvazger

What news audiences can teach journalists about artificial intelligence

Generative AI is changing journalism. Audiences have clear expectations for how it’s used.

April 16, 2025

The facts behind Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia’s deportation

El Salvador's president and Trump officials misrepresented Abrego Garcia’s case, his protections, and a Supreme Court order to return him

April 16, 2025

Maria Ramirez Uribe

Houston Landing will shut down by May due to ‘financial challenges’

The Landing launched in June 2023 and has had a rocky two years, weathering unpopular staff firings and the loss of funders

April 15, 2025

Spokane’s Spokesman-Review is going nonprofit

In joining a growing wave of nonprofit conversions, the family-owned paper aims to preserve community journalism — and keep it out of corporate hands

April 15, 2025

Opinion | Another day, another Trump target. This time, it was CNN

Trump erupted at CNN’s Kaitlan Collins after she pressed him on a wrongful deportation case and a Supreme Court ruling

April 15, 2025

Opinion | On ABC’s ‘This Week,’ a rare honest answer led to more confusion, not less

Moderator Jonathan Karl pushed for clarity on tariffs and got an answer that left tech leaders scrambling

April 14, 2025

How can you make time for book writing?

A new Poynter program will examine this and other writing conundrums

April 14, 2025

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